Upload your website into Breeze for reviewers

We found a great Breeze feature that gets around the problem of finding a site to host a preview of your product (or burning CDs). You simply zip the site and upload that into the Breeze Content Library. Then send the url to your reference group, writers, etc.

Two important things to note:

1. There must be an “index.htm” file
2. Your reviewers will need to login using their Breeze login - unless you change the permissions on that content item to "public"
   

Thanks to Chris McHarg for putting us onto this one!!

Update on Breeze response times

As you know our IT friends behind the glass wall and at St Leonards are looking into the slow response time / audio drop out issue with Breeze… here’s where we’re up to …

1. Response times appear to have improved over the past 2-3 weeks (they did some switching of buttons and swinging of cables and other technical things), so we’re not getting that dreaded orange light as much….. but…
2. We’re still getting “intermittent high latency” (ie orange light comes on sometimes, audio drops out sometimes, everything seems to run slowly sometimes)
3. Vicki Marchant confirms this is also happening to teachers in the Institutes who are part of the TOL2 Breeze trial (it would of course, they’re using the same Breeze server)
4. Network people are still running tests and measuring what’s happening around the network to identify the cause of the problem, they’re liaising with the local breeze vendors as well. I’ll keep you posted on what comes up.

This needn’t stop you using Breeze in the meantime, there are a few tricks with meeting room settings Marc and I can show you to improve response times while the network issues are being worked out. I’ll add those to the blog later, and I'll check in with each project this week.