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IMDA
A complete online university - featuring video, interactive
tuition, student workbook areas.
More than any, this was the project which led us away from
being CC4Web, into CC4.
The IMDA website was ambitious, experimental and ahead of
its time. This was the first of many co-operative projects
which we produced working alongside the cream of Cardiff's
design and programming houses. Firstly, the website was
designed for widescreen monitors (in 2001, some time before
they were generally available). The website was also
text-free, with all of its content delivered via video
(again, this was 2001, when everybody was accessing the web
via a 56k modem). And at the heart of the site was an
avatar-based forum which allowed the IMDA's members to adopt
an avatar identity and discuss business management issues
whilst they virtually strolled around a virtual island with
a virtually columned library at its epicentre. It was
virtually unachievable in those distant days of the web to
attract enough of a sophisticated and technically
broadband-equipped clientele to make it work.
Eventually, the IMDA retreated from its lofty ambitions and
settled into a more conventional webskin, whilst CC4
produced and published the video material via CD-ROM, and
DVD. However, with broadband now ubiquitous, maybe
the time is ripe ...?
This will be appreciated by real visionaries only......
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