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167 - Create a Video of the GHOP Joomla! Quickstart Guide Task
Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 8:39 pm
by MiCCAS
Hi Guys (and Gals),
I was surfing through the GHOP Issues list, and after thinking there wouldn't be anything I could do I saw number 187 glissem and gleam in the sunlight, and as soon as I read it I knew it was for me.
http://code.google.com/p/google-highly- ... ail?id=167
Create a Video that demonstrates page by page all of the information
contained in the GHOP Joomla! QuickStart Guide.
Description
Create a training video to accompany the GHOP Joomla! Quickstart Guide
http://code.google.com/p/google-highly- ... tail?id=48
Difficulty
Complex.
Work Product
Easy to follow along, well developed video that follows the GHOP Joomla!
Quickstart Guide, step by step, to help new end users be successful with
Joomla.
License
Documentation written for this task must be made available under the
Joomla! Electronic Documentation License.
Extra Credit (optional)
Voice
Time Limit
2 weeks
I have already started, and setup ONE video so far (the other video buttons won't work).
You can check out my current work at
http://www.miccas.net/dev/jquickstart/
About Me: I'm currently 16 years of age, and I am heavily interested in the Joomla! platform/system. I current reside in Australia, attending a High School in Melbourne.
Re: 167 - Create a Video of the GHOP Joomla! Quickstart Guide Task
Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 9:29 pm
by AmyStephen
OH MY GOODNESS!!!
I hope you have contacted Kevin! He's going to be thrilled!!!
Better hurry.
Great, great, great work!!!
Thank you!
Amy
Re: 167 - Create a Video of the GHOP Joomla! Quickstart Guide Task
Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 9:44 pm
by MiCCAS
AmyStephen wrote:
OH MY GOODNESS!!!
I hope you have contacted Kevin! He's going to be thrilled!!!
Better hurry.
Great, great, great work!!!
Thank you!
Amy
Ahaha, I'm guessing you like it so far?
Re: 167 - Create a Video of the GHOP Joomla! Quickstart Guide Task
Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 11:23 pm
by MiCCAS
Re: 167 - Create a Video of the GHOP Joomla! Quickstart Guide Task
Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 11:45 pm
by AmyStephen
You might be noticing a lot of hits on your sites from all the people I am telling - HEY! look at what we are going to greet our new Joomla! v 1.5 community members with. It goes with the Quick Start guide you printed the other day.
Then, people say things like this:
Have you showed Kevin, yet? You need to find Kevin!
Amy
Re: 167 - Create a Video of the GHOP Joomla! Quickstart Guide Task
Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 12:03 am
by Kevin8020
Or I'll find it first...
Going to take a look at the first vids now...
WOOT!
Re: 167 - Create a Video of the GHOP Joomla! Quickstart Guide Task
Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 12:05 am
by AmyStephen
I know! I'm excited, and, I didn't even write it! So cool!
Kevin - Think about it! Your first book is being turned into video.
You guys BOTH rock! Thanks a million.
Amy
Re: 167 - Create a Video of the GHOP Joomla! Quickstart Guide Task
Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 12:13 am
by Kevin8020
haha... I feel special! Let me know if I can help out at all MiCCAS!
If you don't mind the suggestions, I noticed a few things on my first look-over. If these are difficult to change, don't worry about it.
1) On the XAMPP video, extend slide 6, 7, and 19. I had trouble reading the slides before they disappeared. Not a big deal, but something to consider if you are able to go back and adjust those
2) On the installer video, the phpmyadmin slide isn't necessary on an XAMPP install - the "root" username already has the ability to create databases, so we don't really need to do that first.
Overall though, what you have right now is
STUNNING!! Great work! I can't wait to see more
Re: 167 - Create a Video of the GHOP Joomla! Quickstart Guide Task
Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 12:16 am
by MiCCAS
Thanks for the comments Kevin, those things are easily fixed. I'll update the videos very soon
Thanks for the comments Amy, I'm glad this is turning out so well. But I'll tell you this, it's very hard to match Kevin's amazing high standards in his tutorial!
Re: 167 - Create a Video of the GHOP Joomla! Quickstart Guide Task
Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 12:21 am
by MiCCAS
Kevin8020 wrote:
haha... I feel special! Let me know if I can help out at all MiCCAS!
If you don't mind the suggestions, I noticed a few things on my first look-over. If these are difficult to change, don't worry about it.
1) On the XAMPP video, extend slide 6, 7, and 19. I had trouble reading the slides before they disappeared. Not a big deal, but something to consider if you are able to go back and adjust those
2) On the installer video, the phpmyadmin slide isn't necessary on an XAMPP install - the "root" username already has the ability to create databases, so we don't really need to do that first.
Overall though, what you have right now is
STUNNING!! Great work! I can't wait to see more
I wasn't sure about number 2, so I just went with it. That is a simple thing to fix anyway.
Re: 167 - Create a Video of the GHOP Joomla! Quickstart Guide Task
Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 1:36 am
by MiCCAS
Ok, I'm reuploading the Joomla Installer one, and have removed the phpmyadmin parts as you suggested. Make sure you clear your cache when you visit the site (should be uploaded 5 minutes from this post being posted).
I will edit the XAMPP one now.
Re: 167 - Create a Video of the GHOP Joomla! Quickstart Guide Task
Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 1:55 am
by MiCCAS
Ok guys, fixed number 1 as well on the XAMPP video. Hope that is better.
Re: 167 - Create a Video of the GHOP Joomla! Quickstart Guide Task
Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 4:30 am
by Kevin8020
WOOHOO! That looks great! I can't wait to see more...
Between your videos and the guide, this is going to be really sweet...
Re: 167 - Create a Video of the GHOP Joomla! Quickstart Guide Task
Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 4:33 am
by MiCCAS
Kevin8020 wrote:
WOOHOO! That looks great! I can't wait to see more...
Between your videos and the guide, this is going to be really sweet...
I know, your guide is amazing!! Well done
Re: 167 - Create a Video of the GHOP Joomla! Quickstart Guide Task
Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 9:57 am
by MiCCAS
http://www.miccas.net/dev/jquickstart/
Added another video, I'm getting a bit tired so I'll do more videos tomorrow. Let me know what you think, if I should scrap it or if there are some changes to be made. I will complete the changes later tonight or tomorrow
Re: 167 - Create a Video of the GHOP Joomla! Quickstart Guide Task
Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 11:31 pm
by Kevin8020
HAHAHA! I would like to order a MyLarge tree please... it will go good next to my hippo...
:P
Looking good!
(PS- Any chance I could have a copy of that desktop?!)
Re: 167 - Create a Video of the GHOP Joomla! Quickstart Guide Task
Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 11:42 pm
by MiCCAS
Kevin8020 wrote:
HAHAHA! I would like to order a MyLarge tree please... it will go good next to my hippo...
:P
Looking good!
(PS- Any chance I could have a copy of that desktop?!)
HAHAHA I know, when I was recording the video I knew what to do, then I'm at it and I'm like oh now I have no idea what to right.. so I sort of made it up as I went along
And sure you can have the desktop, I thought it looked bland with just a blue background so here it is:
http://i4.[removed].com/6po7yva.png
Re: 167 - Create a Video of the GHOP Joomla! Quickstart Guide Task
Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 1:57 am
by Kevin8020
By the way - this thought just came to mind. If you haven't already gone to all the trouble of entering a bunch of articles for video purposes, would you like a copy of the database from this project?
Re: 167 - Create a Video of the GHOP Joomla! Quickstart Guide Task
Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 2:15 am
by MiCCAS
Kevin8020 wrote:
By the way - this thought just came to mind. If you haven't already gone to all the trouble of entering a bunch of articles for video purposes, would you like a copy of the database from this project?
Haha, that would have been awesome if I didn't just create articles and finish just now :P It's ok though thanks.
Next video is being uploaded now!
Re: 167 - Create a Video of the GHOP Joomla! Quickstart Guide Task
Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 2:16 am
by AmyStephen
Have I been banned / blocked / or otherwise shunned / from visiting my favorite movie site?
http://www.miccas.net/dev/jquickstart/
Elin can get there. :P
Re: 167 - Create a Video of the GHOP Joomla! Quickstart Guide Task
Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 2:28 am
by MiCCAS
Yeah you used too much bandwidth.. just kidding.
It's still up here, I just uploaded the new video:
http://www.miccas.net/dev/jquickstart/users.html
If you still can't get to it, go to start run, type cmd and press enter. Type ipconfig /flushdns then press enter
close that and try again.
Re: 167 - Create a Video of the GHOP Joomla! Quickstart Guide Task
Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 2:36 am
by Kevin8020
Only thing of note in users is that on slide 60, you spelled page "apge." Still great work!
BTW: Amy, would you please send someone after task 53!
Re: 167 - Create a Video of the GHOP Joomla! Quickstart Guide Task
Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 2:45 am
by MiCCAS
Kevin8020 wrote:
Only thing of note in users is that on slide 60, you spelled page "apge." Still great work!
BTW: Amy, would you please send someone after task 53!
I'll reupload the fix, thanks for pointing that out.
What's task 53 all about?
Re: 167 - Create a Video of the GHOP Joomla! Quickstart Guide Task
Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 2:50 am
by Kevin8020
MiCCAS wrote:
Kevin8020 wrote:
Only thing of note in users is that on slide 60, you spelled page "apge." Still great work!
BTW: Amy, would you please send someone after task 53!
I'll reupload the fix, thanks for pointing that out.
What's task 53 all about?
Thanks for fixing that...
And task 53 is the one that i'm currently working on... documentation for CSS rounded corners. I have a question that's keeping me from working, and my topic hasn't been looked at yet. I'm thinking that my task may not have someone assigned to look at it... so I'm being a pest... haha
Re: 167 - Create a Video of the GHOP Joomla! Quickstart Guide Task
Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 2:56 am
by MiCCAS
Kevin8020 wrote:
MiCCAS wrote:
Kevin8020 wrote:
Only thing of note in users is that on slide 60, you spelled page "apge." Still great work!
BTW: Amy, would you please send someone after task 53!
I'll reupload the fix, thanks for pointing that out.
What's task 53 all about?
Thanks for fixing that...
And task 53 is the one that i'm currently working on... documentation for CSS rounded corners. I have a question that's keeping me from working, and my topic hasn't been looked at yet. I'm thinking that my task may not have someone assigned to look at it... so I'm being a pest... haha
Haha, that's cool :P
What's the next video.. hmm.. ah, News Feeds.. that's an easy one
Menu will be the largest I think, Templates will be easy. I might do News Feeds today, record Menu today then edit it tomorrow.. we'll see
So everything's ok so far? The videos are satisfactory? And more so to Kevin, are you happy with the way they represent your guide?
Re: 167 - Create a Video of the GHOP Joomla! Quickstart Guide Task
Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 4:13 am
by MiCCAS
MiCCAS wrote:
Kevin8020 wrote:
MiCCAS wrote:
I'll reupload the fix, thanks for pointing that out.
What's task 53 all about?
Thanks for fixing that...
And task 53 is the one that i'm currently working on... documentation for CSS rounded corners. I have a question that's keeping me from working, and my topic hasn't been looked at yet. I'm thinking that my task may not have someone assigned to look at it... so I'm being a pest... haha
Haha, that's cool :P
What's the next video.. hmm.. ah, News Feeds.. that's an easy one
Menu will be the largest I think, Templates will be easy. I might do News Feeds today, record Menu today then edit it tomorrow.. we'll see
So everything's ok so far? The videos are satisfactory? And more so to Kevin, are you happy with the way they represent your guide?
Web Links is done -
http://www.miccas.net/dev/jquickstart/links.html
Re: 167 - Create a Video of the GHOP Joomla! Quickstart Guide Task
Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 4:52 am
by MiCCAS
Re: 167 - Create a Video of the GHOP Joomla! Quickstart Guide Task
Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 1:09 am
by Kevin8020
MiCCAS wrote:
Kevin8020 wrote:
MiCCAS wrote:
I'll reupload the fix, thanks for pointing that out.
What's task 53 all about?
Thanks for fixing that...
And task 53 is the one that i'm currently working on... documentation for CSS rounded corners. I have a question that's keeping me from working, and my topic hasn't been looked at yet. I'm thinking that my task may not have someone assigned to look at it... so I'm being a pest... haha
Haha, that's cool :P
What's the next video.. hmm.. ah, News Feeds.. that's an easy one
Menu will be the largest I think, Templates will be easy. I might do News Feeds today, record Menu today then edit it tomorrow.. we'll see
So everything's ok so far? The videos are satisfactory? And more so to Kevin, are you happy with the way they represent your guide?
For me, I love what you have done, and thing they represent the guide well. Not being the one setting the quality standards, I won't try to answer that one - but I personally am very impressed!
Also just watched the last two videos, which are also great. My only suggestion would be on the links video. While "firstly" is an OK word, removing it would sound more professional. That is on slide nine.
Re: 167 - Create a Video of the GHOP Joomla! Quickstart Guide Task
Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 2:43 am
by MiCCAS
Kevin8020 wrote:
MiCCAS wrote:
Kevin8020 wrote:
Thanks for fixing that...
And task 53 is the one that i'm currently working on... documentation for CSS rounded corners. I have a question that's keeping me from working, and my topic hasn't been looked at yet. I'm thinking that my task may not have someone assigned to look at it... so I'm being a pest... haha
Haha, that's cool :P
What's the next video.. hmm.. ah, News Feeds.. that's an easy one
Menu will be the largest I think, Templates will be easy. I might do News Feeds today, record Menu today then edit it tomorrow.. we'll see
So everything's ok so far? The videos are satisfactory? And more so to Kevin, are you happy with the way they represent your guide?
For me, I love what you have done, and thing they represent the guide well. Not being the one setting the quality standards, I won't try to answer that one - but I personally am very impressed!
Also just watched the last two videos, which are also great. My only suggestion would be on the links video. While "firstly" is an OK word, removing it would sound more professional. That is on slide nine.
I will fix this and reupload the new video within 10 minutes.
EDIT: Done
Re: 167 - Create a Video of the GHOP Joomla! Quickstart Guide Task
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 4:50 am
by MiCCAS
Hey Guys,
Sorry for being a bit inactive over the last couple of days, been very busy.
I'm uploading the Menu tutorial video now, and will try and get the other two videos done tonight.
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