Half for kicks and half to make this blog a more user friendly experience for folks new to the medium, I’ve recorded a 4 minute audio tour of the various features and resources on this site. I’ll be putting it on top of the sidebar for awhile to see how it works for folks.

Play Site Tour

The idea is that visitors can click the play button and listen without leaving the site. I think this kind of thing has a lot of potential, even if not in this particular context. I honestly don’t know if this is a good idea or not – but part of what I like to do with my own site is experiment with ideas before I recommend them to clients! In this case it may be a problem that if you click on any of the links discussed in the tour, a new page will load and the audio will stop. That’s not ideal.

I recorded the intro in Garage Band on my Mac, then transferred it over to iTunes and converted it to MP3. I put music in the background from the Podsafe Music Network. This song is Bill DeRome’s The ending before the beginning – instrumental.

I then uploaded it onto my webspace and created the play button link using the code I wrote about at Mp3 Blogs and Playing Sound Within Your Site.

If you feel inclined to give it a click and listen while you bop around the site here, let me know what you think.