{"id":24,"date":"2013-04-18T21:18:39","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T20:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/?p=24"},"modified":"2013-04-18T21:20:54","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T20:20:54","slug":"a-previous-incarnation-of-linguacast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/2013\/04\/18\/a-previous-incarnation-of-linguacast\/","title":{"rendered":"A Previous Incarnation of Linguacast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/linguacast.ncl.ac.uk\">Linguacast<\/a> website originally started life as an early podcast site for language learning way back in 2005. Since then, it has undergone several major revisions of user interface. The previous version of the website landing page looked something like the picture below.\u00a0 This version presented \u00a0a \u00a0tabbed menu structure, and the languages were accessed via a single language tab. The present version makes the languages immediately accessible from the main menu buttons, arguably a more direct and user-friendly was of accessing the data. Extensive use was made of javascript functions to provide a tailored video player and CSS was used to style the pages.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_28\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/files\/2013\/04\/linguacast-v3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28 \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/files\/2013\/04\/linguacast-v3-300x255.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/files\/2013\/04\/linguacast-v3-300x255.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/files\/2013\/04\/linguacast-v3-352x300.png 352w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/files\/2013\/04\/linguacast-v3.png 1014w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-28\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Linguacast previous version home page<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Linguacast website originally started life as an early podcast site for language learning way back in 2005. Since then, it has undergone several major revisions of user interface. The previous version of the website landing page looked something like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/2013\/04\/18\/a-previous-incarnation-of-linguacast\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3854,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-user-experience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3854"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}