NEW Community Page!

Personally I liked the crazy flashy photo show. ;)

AuntySue, OK, I follow you. Thank for the explanation. :)

Well I pulled that thingamijig into my rss reader, and it's wonderful. I'd never have looked at those other blogs, but scrolling down I was impressed with how much work these people are putting in. I even saw my beloved ChinesePod Cantonese logo in the Korean blog! I tried to run that article through a translator, but I couldn't get up off the floor after reading "to the storehouse young mullet will enter the ramyon", so I retreated, entertained but none the wiser, to the comfort of my dear friend Frank, whose blog speaks my language(s). Good fun.

AuntySue, Ha ha, that's hilarious... Yeah, our Korean blogger is quite industrious. BTW, about the stripe issue... It's the same color scheme used on the Conversations page listing. Does it bother you there too?

Looks good! I didn't even realise there was a community page. I've had a few issues recently about not knowing where things are. I think the huge disconnect between the site and the podcasts is a problem; I am sure that some people don't realise all of the interesting stuff going on inside the site and just listen to the podcast. I used to be one of those people!

Whoa... this is the coolest thing I've ever seen: http://dict.chinesepod.com/ Have a look!

Yeah, that dictionary is very cool. It will save me time by having to dive in and out of lessons much less. Saving time is a beautiful thing.

Well done, thank you! It has become a page worth visiting regularly. The combined blogs is ingenious, not only convenient but also by looking at the list you get a real sense of all of the international community stuff that's happening around here. Don't let me disappoint you and leave without any criticism. I find the yellow and white stripe effect a bit garish and hard on the old eyes. It also makes me read all of the yellow ones, then catch myself and read all of the white ones, as if they're a different list. Are the stripes really helpful? If so, how about something really subtle, like pale kodak-yellow against pale banana yellow, or something. Still, content is the most important and that's looking good. Next is function, and the combined rss feed is a nice treat. Sorry Bazza, yes the crazy photo show was nice but it made my computer have a hernia so I'm pleased that it's no longer compulsory.

You need a Myspace page with a public feed player. millions of people use myspace too. Also, Wana say that i love the new dict and the grammar feat, xiexie

Couldn't be more pleased to see the bloggers get some love. Thank you, guys. It really means a lot to have you set up a way to help us share our hard work.

The link to ChinesePod on YouTube should be http://www.youtube.com/chinesepod instead of http://www.youtube.com/user/chinesepod/

No John, on the Conversations page, though I can see it's technically similar, you don't get the mad striping effect. I think it's because they're whole chunks of text divided up with black lines. The eyes read it like a lot of cards spread out on the table. On the community page they're basically bullet points without the bullets, so the eye runs vertically, instead of (in Conversations) a slower more forgiving zigzag path that can actually benefit from the frequent go-slow humps. It reminds me of running a stick across a piece of corrugated iron, naganaganaganaga, compared to using a ruler to explore a wall of pigeon holes, kerplop-kerplop-kerplop. Maybe others like it diplayed this way. If so, don't worry, it's just cosmetic, I spent many happy moments playing the corrugated iron as a kid, I can regress. :-)

Maybe it´s better to use some friendly light grey to make it more eye friendly (but offcourse a bit darker than that, the rest of the page has) :-)

kmkfr, Ha, that's weird. I didn't realize the lack of a trailing slash could be so critical. I'll get it fixed right away.

ChinesePod on YouTube returns "Invalid Username"