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Re: Show HN: Iorad - the tutorial builder

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Having English as a second language I am always reluctant to make a screencast. My spoken English would be distracting, if not for the brokenness then at least for my lack of confidence when speaking it.

This looks like a great alternative! Thanks :)

Re: Show HN: Iorad - the tutorial builder

#72

This is really great. I (or my employer) would gladly pay for this. I have two suggestions & critiques: I think that by eschewing video and audio entirely, you're missing out. As apple has demonstrated, animations and transitions are important to the user experience and user understanding. I would definitely allow screenboard creators to import or upload video and audio clips. Perhaps this could be a feature for adva…

I read this as: You think that this alternative-to-screencasts is great, but you'd pay more money if it also made… screencasts. ;) There's absolutely nothing wrong with liking screencasts. But if you want a screencast - a thing with video and audio clips that conveys information through voice - you want a different product, right? There are existing products that help you make screencasts. The problem with bolting sc…

Not necessarily. With this product, the user controls the pace at which they proceed through the tutorial. That doesn't mean that it needs to eschew audio and video.

Re: Show HN: Iorad - the tutorial builder

#73

here's a demo we made using for salesforce on how to create a new lead http://www.iorad.com/?a=app.htmlplayer&accessCode=GUEST&...

You should definitely focus on URLs and content on the landing page to help your search engine ranking. The current URL structure is not optimal. Is there a email I can reach you at? Alternatively, please contact me at me@solutionyogi.com. Would love to share some more ideas.

would love to hear spatel @ iorad .com

Re: Show HN: Iorad - the tutorial builder

#74
Awesome product, this is really fantastic. Creating basic tutorials/screencasts has always been such a time-consuming task, this will help immensely and is much easier for users to consume.

Here's a few usability items I uncovered while playing around with it...

- Support undo. I accidentally deleted a slide, but it was gone forever :)

- Same with on-slide elements...

- I used it to create a tutorial on modifying PDF document properties in Acrobat, but the dialog box was cutoff top and bottom and I was unable to scroll to close the dialog.

- The above issue resulted in me creating 42 slides instead of 12, because I kept clicking and scrolling to try to get to the 'OK' button on the dialog. The tutorial would have been usable, but there is no way to easily delete 30 slides at once, and clicking 'delete... confirm delete' on 30 slides is tedious.

Overall, very nice work, and best of luck!

Re: Show HN: Iorad - the tutorial builder

#75

This is really great. I (or my employer) would gladly pay for this. I have two suggestions & critiques: I think that by eschewing video and audio entirely, you're missing out. As apple has demonstrated, animations and transitions are important to the user experience and user understanding. I would definitely allow screenboard creators to import or upload video and audio clips. Perhaps this could be a feature for adva…

I read this as: You think that this alternative-to-screencasts is great, but you'd pay more money if it also made… screencasts. ;) There's absolutely nothing wrong with liking screencasts. But if you want a screencast - a thing with video and audio clips that conveys information through voice - you want a different product, right? There are existing products that help you make screencasts. The problem with bolting sc…

Not really. I want the ability to make it into a multi-media in the truest sense of the term. I'd want it as an option, but not a requirement.

Maybe I'm just asking for a youtube-boxed sized version of hypercard. :D

Re: Show HN: Iorad - the tutorial builder

#76

Is it down? I'm getting: 500 - Internal server error. Overall though very optimistic this could replace Adobe Captivate and some use of Camtasia for me. Please add support to generate a simple list of actions (including or based on edited captions). I'm dying for something that will let me produce: 1. Demo script 2. Handouts 3. Video All in one run.

yes this is already there...quick guide, interactive video all in one shot...

Re: Show HN: Iorad - the tutorial builder

#77
post #71

Having English as a second language I am always reluctant to make a screencast. My spoken English would be distracting, if not for the brokenness then at least for my lack of confidence when speaking it. This looks like a great alternative! Thanks :)

Most people are uncomfortable with their voices. My boss, who has a great deep speaking voice and is a very confident extrovert has been recording the same 3 minute screencast over and over this week (I assume it is because the sound of hearing his own voice has made him very self conscious).

Record a screencast even if you have an accent. Silent screencasts with just clicking (or even worse - music) seem pointless.

Re: Show HN: Iorad - the tutorial builder

#78
It's a good idea. Nice job.

I have some issues with the usability of the presentations, specifically around the prominence of the next action. The green highlighting isn't visible enough, and the annotations look like buttons themselves.

Re: Show HN: Iorad - the tutorial builder

#79
post #71

Having English as a second language I am always reluctant to make a screencast. My spoken English would be distracting, if not for the brokenness then at least for my lack of confidence when speaking it. This looks like a great alternative! Thanks :)

Most people are uncomfortable with their voices. My boss, who has a great deep speaking voice and is a very confident extrovert has been recording the same 3 minute screencast over and over this week (I assume it is because the sound of hearing his own voice has made him very self conscious). Record a screencast even if you have an accent. Silent screencasts with just clicking (or even worse - music) seem pointless.

the main point of our app is to give something to users that is easy to follow. Screencasts are difficult to follow as in you have to play/pause/play pause.

Re: Show HN: Iorad - the tutorial builder

#80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

thanks much...we're going to follow a github type model..public tutorials are free...for premium we are going to offer pdf, ppt, doc and html export to deploy on your own servers...

Making public tutorial free is a GREAT idea. You should also create various tutorials for common tasks and host it on your website like ' http://iorad.com/tutorial/how-to-link-to-particular-time-in-... I think it will be a PERFECT SEM strategy.

+1 to this idea, particularly cleaning up the URLs. You should also setup a "browse" type page for users to browse through the topics. So if I went to http://iorad.com/tutorial/topics/microsoft-word/ I'd get a listing of all tutorials based on microsoft word. That'll help your SEO for searches like "Microsoft Word Tutorials"

Also, while clicking around your site I got quite a few ColdFusion errors with the full debug output. At the very least I'd set restrict debug output to your local IP's within ColdFusion Administrator.

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