On Dec 24, 2010, at 1:02 PM, Chris Morgan wrote:
Yes, yes, YES! Very well summed up; that's precisely what we need. More videos can be spread throughout in overviews of various sections. I'm even thinking it could be nice if the "features" boxes were just screenshots, but when you click on them they animate, silent little movies demonstrating the feature, maybe even make the sub-features there expand when clicked on to show a screenshot-video in similar style (naturally with instructions and visual cues). I think video can be used to great effect in promoting Inkscape.
Got to be careful with this though, do we really want videos littering the whole website? For example, perhaps the mini-screenshots on the features page could work as clickable screencasts, but I don't think there would be a need to have one for each feature listed on the page (potentially cumbersome). Also, do you mean something like on this page for the mini-movies? http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/features/
Although I believe video is a useful communication tool, it's all too easy to recklessly abuse the medium. A few well-placed, well-made videos can enhance content, but lots of half-pie videos all over the place might actually diminish it. Quality is better than quantity...
Cheers, and happy holidays! Hinerangi Courtenay (duckgoesoink)