Now dynamic creation of the course overview page.
Another small step. The page Homepage -> Multimedia Courses is now generated dynamically. This far it was a static page.
No change at all from a users point of view - although it looks a bit different and now shows view statistics right there. However, it is another step towards a “real” community website, where posting content is possible for web users.
Should I announce every tiny step? Well, why not? This is the Change-(B)log!!!
Next: Ability to upload “items” and create “courses”. To create a new course one has to create a course AND upload items. Items are any kind of content, Flash files, video files, images, text files, PDFs, etc. etc. Other content websites allow only videos, like the German commercial project learn2use.de I just joined. That makes management soooo much easier. This project aims higher. A course needs more than just video! One needs PDFs to print, tests, still pictures, HTML content (I have a content type “multimedia enhanced dynamic HTML”, where video/audio can be attached to an HTML page and it controls its dynamic behavior, the page does not need to be static but can employ dyn. HTML effects controlled by the audio/video, to make stuff move/appear/disappear/etc.). When you create a “course” you put the “items” - yours and those of other people! (if they allow it - compatible license types are checked and enforced automatically, i.e. in the future) - so you put the “items” into the course. The course itself has a “glue file” that can be HTML, or Flash. From there you link to the “items”. The course file only “glues” them together, i.e. it uses those reusable files (by you and/or others) and adds content specific to only that course. Sounds complicated? No, why, you do that any time you write a webpage and use a CMS (content management system).
Mörre