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Re: Ann: New FPGA beginner's Video guide

Hey Dave, thanks for checking out the videos & thank you for your kind comment! That's much appreciated.

Regarding the membership, I hear your point. I understand that some people would prefer not to have the membership / login-area.

But really it's just a place where people can come back and log in to view the videos for whatever membership level they have. Whether it's the free one or the full one. There's alot of excellent value in the free one, and people can upgrade to the full one later if they want.

I want to show people how to easily get started with FPGAs and at the moment I've just decided that a "login area" is probably the best way to deliver the videos product. Also, the site doesn't have any distracting Google Adsense or banner advertising.

If anyone wants to get into FPGAs, it's definitely a great way to start!

Thanks again for your comments. Cheers, Anthony The BurchED Getting Started With Xilinx FPGAs Video Guide

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Make that "most" people, especially so the technical ones.

Ok, but why do people have to sign up to get the free ones? That will drive people away in droves.

Not the free ones, it's by far the worst possible way you could go about it.

I think you'll find most people would rather have a few targeted Google ads than have to sign up to get free stuff. Free shouldn't only be free, but it should be instant, no strings attached. This is what I've learned from my own website. My traffic is astronomical because I offer stuff for free without sign-ups. And people actually seem to like the targeted Google ads, they click on them a LOT ;-)

Also, being hounded page after page to get to the free videos is really annoying. It reminds me of when I have to go renew my domain name, they bombard me with pages of "are you really sure you don't want to upgrade to this and that feature". It makes me want to scream and never go back there.

Also, people won't link to your site if it doesn't have good free stuff readily available.

Just some constructive criticism (from experience). Your videos deserve to be widely seen, it would be a shame to not have them popular because they are too hard to get.

Regards Dave.

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Thanks Dave. I really appreciate your advice. I have changed the site.

One of the many changes that I made is that visitors can now watch the free videos without signing up or logging in or anything like that

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Kind regards,

Anthony Burch The BurchED Getting Started With Xilinx FPGAs Video Guide

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That's heaps better Tony! The bombardment is gone, simple and straight to the videos. Nice. Good luck with it.

You don't make the demo boards any more?

Dave.

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> That's heaps better Tony! > The bombardment is gone, simple and straight to the videos. Nice. > Good luck with it. > > You don't make the demo boards any more? > > Dave.

Thanks Dave! The response has improved alot. Also the feedback has been great and the videos are helping alot of guys get started with FPGAs.

Yes, that's right, I don't manufacture FPGA boards any more. There are still many hundreds of the BurchED boards in use though, and I still keep in touch with the "BurchED FPGA board fans" and provide support.

For people needing a new FPGA board, there are some excellent value ones around, like the ones from Digilent. I also do a review of some of the boards currently available in "Video #3 - part 2/2: FPGA boards and general advice on what to get" at

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(free video, no signup required:) )

Thanks again & cheers, Anthony

Getting Started With Xilinx FPGAs Video Guide

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