[Alex Lindsay]

Alex--

I just checked out your site on a cable modem. The tutorials are pretty good--informative without getting too much into specifics. Bookmarked it to check out when I'm on this computer

--thank you.

Re not designing the site to be obvious... that's your choice, but I think it's a mistake. People who are serious about learning won't necessarily be willing to spend their time figuring out your design, especially when they aren't sure yet that what you've got is worthwhile. They may just as soon leave your site to find someplace that will give them content up front without making them jump through hoops. Willingness to decipher an interface isn't an accurate measure of skills or potential.

--I will consider this...I'm looking for very specfic traits...and ones that are very different than what you might expect.

Re big videos etc, it's good you know the audience you're trying to appeal to (broadband-using visual learners), but do keep it in mind when you say things like "we donjust that you want to learn and play hard in this medium". I chuckled when I saw this on my 28.8 machine.

--This is a good point and when we have the capacity...we will make adjusts to serve this area.

The reason you have 96.4% high-bandwidth registrants is probably because all the modem users gave up on the site before registering (I almost did).

-- it's definitely possible. While we have a wide vision...our initial push is focused a little higher than 28.8...most , though not all, professionals and serious hobbists are equipped with something a little faster.

Also (one more thing...), if you're really dedicated to being "platform agnostic", you should provide videos in other formats than quicktime. Linux especially has problems with quicktime, although it has a lot of potential for (cheap) visual media development.

--We will only support Quicktime for now. I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause viewers...We have internal reasons for this and we only have the capacity right now to trouble shoot one streaming medium and Quicktime, from our experience, is the most robust and stable of the options.

Okay...sorry for rambling on... I've thought about this kind of stuff a lot lately (going from cable modem to 28.8 will do that), so my babbling here is sort of serving as an outlet. Hope you don't mind

-- I don't mind at all. 28.8 will probably be below what we are providing for regularly but I want to make it accessible to some degree so will work on it.