SOP-5 CAMD/INTERDISCIPLINARY MISC TRACK
TRUMPETBIBLE.COM AND FRIENDS (VERY EARLY DRAFT/MOSTLY BULLETED ANNOTATIONS)
This interim section is nothing but a rough sketch, a kind of "internal use" repository I started to collect bits and pieces and plenty of place holders and to a certain extent a self-inflicted prod to keep working on the pet project.
My idea is to "deploy" such a possible project but embedded in a university host/interdisciplinary program environment.
As with the other disciplines, time for me to say Thanks! and give back.
I began to write down some annotations, e.g. Why, what would be the purpose of such a publication/purpose? Help people get back and keep practicing, merging moments of drills and breaks.
However things like these take tons of time, mosaic work, very difficult to afford via third parties.
So "student labor' is ideal as at least they get A's and likely quite a few would prove vocational.
It's very difficult to a single website to wear multiple hats. There's a limit as regards stretching their mission on earth.
One can operate a site say as an institute or organization publication but then people start adding features and it becomes a little bit out of focus or extremely unattractive to frequent use.
A way to go around this, as I have done with stuff in other fields, is to have a number of satellite or helper sites to help unload content. This allocation strategy also helps when googling.
In the case of trumpetbible.com I had determined that at a minimum, the site would have at least the following aide-de-camps:
LipFlexibility.com
StaccatoStudies.com
TechnicalExercises.com
PiccoloTrumpets.com
OrchestralStudies.com
This way organization and presentation follows smoothly and related site aggregate conform a highly recommendable content cluster or themed network (versus a loner or on your own webspace player).
APPENDIX: Just an unsorted bits and pieces (don't mind sharing work-in-progress annotations)
What are we trying to achieve?
What's the [business, artistic, educational] rationale behind?
The website should not compete with say TV.
A metronome icon/feature should probably be available obligato(maybe tuning/xyl or bell for previewing note) on most webpages.
One should question things like:
Is it meant to be a method?
I think the best overall website goal/mission is to encourage folks to keep practicing and enjoy it!
No harm is done if we can keep folks to Keep trying.
Aside from a handful recommendation there are no standards when it comes to look and feel and/or screen layout.
Thus, as with teaching methods selection and execution can be at times subjective.
Some with insist on above the fold emphasis, some others believe scroll/swipe up/down works better.
To a certain extent things depend on function and/or amount of information to be displayed.
I general I try to keep things as simple as possible, say one or two depth levels and then surrender horizontally.
I would believe React would be more aimed at sites having a large volume of onscreen information but that required changes affect just a very little portion of the whole webpage. So that technology enables folks to update or reload that little patch rather than the whole hmtl and associated "modifiers",e.g. CSS, scripts. It does add a level of [server know how] complexity that must be strongly supported if really "big picture" applicable (say not the case in most site's webpages)
What are ways in which folks would likely come back/return/revisit?
More and more Internet is ephimeral consumable and for free.
Say one possible come back stunt could be to periodically replace content.
Say there's some lip flexibility exercise at some time.
A month later you could probably upload a new drill, archive the existing drill and let everybody learn about the new etude.
This has to be used with caution as it's a little bit of a unsolicited message but it's OK if done sparsely although it does some sense in doing so.
I guess I have seen most if not all methods online, whether legit or not.
A single Website/domain can wear a limited number of hats so to speak.
Once some things are decided the rest is simply a no brainer mosaic/"feet work."
From what I have seen this is something college students can best pick up, perhaps better than paid services.
I was not able to locate the webpages but I think it was some Northeastern CAMD webpage giving credit to Journalism majors.
That's another perfect match! In fact I use that term in my own SOP althought for a different reason, id es that of attitude.
Helper domains may be terms wholly unbranded something some organizations would object being forced to admit there's some thing more important than themselves. Whether yellow page header terms or so crucial to discipline I believe they should be recognized as central in the cluster aggregate, for instance lip flexibility and thus LipFlexibility.com
Perhaps nothing can be closer to your [trumpet] heart!!