As far as the lesson not showing up as bold, that could just be a glitch in the website. Try refreshing the page, see if it comes up as bold then. If not, let me know.

And as far as the color goes, yeah, sometimes I even mess up and do that myself in the videos. You're right, I do strongly suggest using standard colors and not theme colors, unless you're the kind of person that likes to allow their users to customize their themes. Then by all means go for it. But that was probably just a slip-up.

Yes, I am planning on re-recording all of these old lessons as time permits. And I will be going through all of these comments each time I re-record new lessons to read them and make sure that I make it better the next time around.

So thank you very much for your feedback and keep the feedback coming.

Also, make sure you're logged on because all of the video zeros - the introduction videos - are publicly visible to everyone, even if they're not logged on. That way, people can see what is covered in that class. But if your session has timed out and you're not technically logged into the website, it doesn't know to log that in your views for your user account. So you can play that video, but it's not being logged.

Just refresh the page and make sure you're logged on. I've got code embedded in the page to keep you logged in, but it's not perfect. Sometimes, if the page sits there for an hour (like if you watch another video and then go have lunch and then come back two hours later and you watch another video on the same page), it may have possibly logged you off in the background.

I don't think it is a glitch.
My guess: When a student first goes to the course it show all available lessons, none are highlighted -- But... the video for the Intro (00) is cued up and ready to go. Clicking on the start arrow starts the course but does not highlight the link. For each of the other lessons you have to click the link for the video to be available, and clicking on them turns on the highlighted link.
Again, just my guess.

Hmmm... that could be it. What happens if you do click the link instead?

The link highlights, and the course starts playing..

It's probably what it is then. People are loading the course, and the Video Zero is queued up. But that alone doesn't trigger the hyperlink. Or that also doesn't trigger the view in the table. And I guess I really haven't cared too much about that because watching that Video Zero is optional; a lot of people skip it if I look through the logs. It's just introducing what's coming up, but since most people are going to watch the videos anyways, they really don't care what's coming up.

I've noticed that the first video and the review video at the end get very little views, so I'll add this to my list of little quirky bugs on the website, and I'll fix it when time allows. Thank you again for bringing it to my attention. Being a one-man band and not having my own dev team that I can delegate stuff to, I have to play the game of "the squeaky wheel gets the grease."

I appreciate that you get back to your student's comments the way you do. And like your courses, you go into details.
I am enjoying the Access courses and will continue with them all. I will also continue to send picky and quirky items that appear in the courses to you, and you decide which wheel gets the grease.
In the early '90s I worked for a training company whose courses (Windows, Microsoft Office, DOS) were presented on laser disk in our training lab (8 seats) before we got out first CD burner (about $4000 at the time). I worked in sales, running the lab, writing manuals, QA, and sometimes editing the video (frame by frame). Perhaps that's how I got so picky.
Thanks again for your courses.

Found it.

Oh no, I definitely appreciate the nitpicking. Keep it coming. In my very early days, when I first started doing this, I obsessed over every detail. I would take months to release even the basic class, and then I realized that it just wasn't sustainable. Since I'm a one-man band, I have to focus on making sure that stuff is good enough and that the quality is there. But I can't necessarily put a single video together either. So sometimes little details like that slip through the cracks.

I definitely remember LaserDiscs and buying my first CD Burner. I'm going to say it was probably the late 90's, maybe 1996 or 7, and they were still pretty expensive, like $400, and that was 1996 dollars. When I started this business that I currently have now back in 2002. Not a lot of people had high-speed internet yet, so most of my sales were shipping CDs. At first, I was burning them out of my computer because I only got a handful of orders a week. Next I bought a CD tower that had 7 burners in it, and that was amazing, but you still had to manually put the discs in, replace them, and start the next batch. So you had to kind of sit there and babysit it.

And then I'm gonna guess sometime around 2004 or 5 I bought an automated duplicator that had a printer in it, too. You could take a stack of 100 CDs, put them in the in-tray, and the little robotic arm would pick them up and drop them in the burner, burn it, pick it up and drop it in the printer, print it, and then pick it up and drop it in the out-tray. That was fantastic because you could just set up a job and then overnight you'd wake up in the morning and have 100 disks just ready to go. And that was amazing. I loved it. And it was worth every penny of the outrageous price I'm sure I paid for it at the time.

But nothing beats what we have today with high-speed internet and everything being digital. And I don't have to ship anything. It's wonderful.