#10 It could look more modern and simple

[James A]

there are too many mp3 and music artist album catalogs out there. I think ( almost selfishly ) streamline should specialize in displaying a list of generic sounds and generic music for people who want to put up a sound download site that you can download simple sounds ( such as a car alarm, a plane taking off, a door closing, bells, footsteps, etc.) for projects and PowerPoint presentations etc. The design should be in a way that you get the name of the sound, legnth of the sound, and a built in player all on a semi white transparent table background (50% transparency is decent enough) which should be changeable, and the option to allow download immediately or charge for download. When I say simplicity I mean Streamline can be to generic sounds and music what Plogger is to photo albums -quintessential power, design, scalability and and most importantly of all Simplicity.
I have included some sample speaker icons that any one can draw up a full blueprint for - and the important note to look for here is that each of these pictures has a transparent background for Web 2.0 sites with built-in image or color backgrounds. That is why the table that list the sounds and music is best suited to be 50% if not 100% transparent.

[James A]

Transparent - Speaker icons

[James A]

HELP: to check the transparency of a picture (usually .PNG) open Microsoft FrontPage 2003 ( or this may even work in Expression Web 2). Create a background by selecting FORMAT >> Background, and then choose a very large photo, or a color for the background. Locate the icon file you want to test on your computer and COPY & PASTE it directly into the WYSIWYG editor in FrontPage. Switch to PREVIEW view, and if the icon doesn't show jagged edges or a white (or colored) box around it, then that image is transparent.

to make a HTML table transparent simply do not set any background properties

to make a HTML table 50% white transparent use a 50% white transparent .PNG image as the background of the table. This PNG image is best created in a program such as GIMP.

to create a transpaerent div

[James A]

to create a transparent div set the css property:

<div id="streamlne_D1" style="background-image:url('http://www.mysite.com/trans_white_100.png') ; " >

remember never to forget the semicolon ( ; ) after a statement.

[James A]

Here is a list of sites that could be made better with the vision of Streamline that I've proposed- all of which display Generic sounds and music.

http://www.acoustica.com/mp3-audio-mixer/sounds.htm

http://www.pachd.com/sounds.html

http://www.deusx.com/freesoundeffects.html

http://www.therecordist.com/pages/downloads.html

http://freesoundfiles.tintagel.net/Audio/

and...

http://www.pacdv.com/sounds/index.html --- which has the most reasonable, but dated design.