Smallpower is making music videos, TV shows, and short films in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Our work is crafted to promote realistic beliefs about disease and violence and to encourage viewers to make informed choices about their health and well being.
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As I mentioned in my last post, I’m releasing the code for the Flash video player we’re using on the site. I created a page at Google Code where you can check out the code, or just download the compiled .swf and point it at your own video files.
I’ve got a short list of functional and visual improvements I’d like to make, but I’m planning on keeping it very simple. Take a look and let me know if you have any suggestions.
Hello, and welcome to the brand new smallpower.org! We’ll be using this site to talk about our work and to share techniques we learn and tools we create along the way.
To start with, I can tell you that I designed and built this site with TextMate and CSSEdit. I used the Blueprint CSS framework to get the layout looking the way I wanted it, and we’re using ExpressionEngine to manage the content.
The design was influenced by clean, dense sites like Catalogtree, Gelitin, Jennifer Daniel, and UPSO. I like the way those sites show the depth and range of the work being presented without overwhelming or confusing you.
At launch, the site is this single page. As we fill it with more pictures, videos, and words, the site will grow to accommodate with archives, project pages, and author profiles; other standards such as comments are on the slate as well.
I wrote the Flash video player that we’re using, and I’ll be releasing the code under the BSD public license shortly. I’ll have more details about that in my next post. In the meantime, feel free to subscribe to our RSS or Atom feed so you can follow along.
