New Oscilloscope Website - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / testgear

author: aat24
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: November 10, 2014, 04:41:20 pm
content: We just launched a new website focussing on oscilloscopes and providing basics, background, glossary and latest news. We are still working to enhance the content.Comments and suggestions welcome!Link:http://www.oscopes.info/

author: PointyOintment
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 15, 2014, 11:59:01 pm
content: This should be a good reference; thanks for posting!I've just had a quick glance around, so my feedback is simple: I don't like that the body text is all bold. I noticed a misspelled word or two.

author: aat24
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: November 25, 2014, 04:22:41 pm
content: Thank you for your feedback! We corrected meanwhile the misspelled word and we will think about the bold text.Also we invest a lot of time in enhancing the content.

author: PedroDaGr8
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 25, 2014, 04:34:28 pm
content: Quote from: aat24 on November 25, 2014, 04:22:41 pmI'm gonna have to agree on the bold text. Keep the date bold, keep the text standard. I think it will make the page look more clean and less busy.Otherwise, it appears to be a great resource. In time, it might be good to include more editorial content like reviews, critiques, news on issues (such as the Rigol AC coupling issue), etc.

author: avvidclif
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: November 25, 2014, 04:35:17 pm
content: I like the bold text. Old and tired eyes say thank you. Much easier to read.

author: avvidclif
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: November 25, 2014, 04:36:57 pm
content: Quote from: PedroDaGr8 on November 25, 2014, 04:34:28 pmRigol doesn't have an AC coupling issue. They have an AC Triggering issue. Big difference.

author: PedroDaGr8
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 25, 2014, 04:56:43 pm
content: Quote from: avvidclif on November 25, 2014, 04:36:57 pmMy apologies, early morning brain fact. Yep huge difference.

author: edavid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 25, 2014, 09:12:33 pm
content: Looks like a press release site with no original contentDon't think I'll be returning.

author: videobruce
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 25, 2014, 09:47:12 pm
content: Where/when did the "info" domain name about??BTW, great idea about the site and hope you succeed with it. Any chance Spectrum Analyzers could be included in the future since they are 'scopes'?

author: aat24
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: December 02, 2014, 06:32:36 pm
content: @edavid:We just launched this website in November and we already have original content e.g. 10 Tips for selecting an Oscilloscope (Basics), Oscilloscopes - A Historic Timeline (Basics), overview products and manufacturers (Market), Oscilloscope Glossary, Weblinks,... and we are working to enhance this.Concerning the press releases I think these are important as well - otherwise you wouldn't be informed what is going on in this market. And I think there is no other website which is covering this market segment likewww.OScopes.info.So stay tuned@videobruceThis website is dedicated to oscilloscopes only. Some scopes offer already also a spectrum analyser function (probably somehow limited). From that point of view we will cover this also in a way. In addition we are running an other website covering the whole spectrum of test & measurement:www.all-about-test.eu/

author: Wuerstchenhund
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 04, 2014, 06:42:53 am
content: Quote from: aat24 on December 02, 2014, 06:32:36 pmTry this:http://www.eetimes.com/test-and-measurement-designline.aspTo be of interest to me and worth my time your website would need to me more than just another press release aggregator with some trivia (incomplete timeline, missing for example that this year LeCroy brought a 100GHz scope to market) and some beginner's information mostly derived from manufacturer whitepapers. That's already better done by sites like EETimes.The "10 Tips for selecting an oscilloscope" is merely a collection of trivia. More complex issues (i.e.vertical resolution) are dealt with in a very superflours way (what about ENOB? noise floor?). This is also true for advanced functionality. Considering that these days most scopes are closer to full signal analyzers it's a big omission to not discuss this in more details. It seems to me this was written by someone who only recently got his first low end scope. But the worst of it is that the title is misleading, there are no actual "tips" in this article, the reader gets thrown a bunch of parameters and that's about it.The section "Market" isn't really a market overview. It's a list of manufacturers and some form factors and bandwidths. BTW: LeCroy stopped making PXI kit quite a while ago (IIRC 8 years).To be worth my time I'd expect more original content (i.e. not parrotting manufacturer statements) dealing with more advanced topics showing how to use scopes to solve complex modern-day problems.BTW: I really hate inline popups (where if the mouse hoovers over some word a popup comes up), they're reason enough for me to dismiss a site no matter what the content. It also looks like you think your readers are idiots or why else dou you feel the need to explain almost every term on every damn page? You have a Glossary so why shove it in your visitors face?The English in some of the areas reads a bit bumpy (obviously translated by a German in German to English). Please don't take this as an offense, I'm a non-native English speaker myself, and it's perfectly fine if your English is a bit rough (mine certainly is). But on a website such as this it looks a bit unprofessional and careless.I also agree with other comments re. the layout. It does look like one of these fake spam sites, and if I had found it through a search engine I'd immediately leave it.Frankly, the site shouldn't have brought online in its current state.

author: marshallh
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 04, 2014, 06:55:53 am
content: Looks like a blogspam/SEO garbage site. There does seem to be some original content in it, but it's hard to find in the morass of useless PR spam.You have several problems:1. Graphic style is poor. While it's clean, it looks incredibly generic, like some 5 minute wordpress template. My eyes can't figure out where to focus.2. Break up all your walls of text. Add images whereever you can. The bolded summary text doesn't work well. All that text may as well say "Lorem ipsum.."3. Clearly mark original content and the PR spam separately.Maybe pick a 200px tall banner on the front page that contains image links to "Choosing your first scope" "Navigating the used scope market" and so on.Sorry I can't provide any more tips. Unfortunately if I were to run into this site from Google I would quickly hit 'Back' thinking it was noise.

author: aat24
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: December 17, 2014, 10:08:24 pm
content: @marshallh@wuerstchenhundThank you for your feedback. We implemented already some of your suggestions: we disabled popups, added images and avoided bold text. Also we added some more original content e.g. "More than just a scope". Work still goes on;-)BTW: The 100GHz scope of Teledyne Le Croy was not missing in the timeline, becuase it was first announced in 2013 but we now mentioned in 2014 again. The timeline is still incomplete and we like to add milestones e.g. in the 70s, 80s and 90s. But this information is hard to find. Any ideas?

author: IconicPCB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 17, 2014, 10:28:50 pm
content: If You have enough room on Your hard drive start collecting a library of service manuals and user manuals of various oscilloscopes.Initially if no room available post links to existing archives but do try to collect and collate manuals as well.

author: aat24
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: January 08, 2015, 03:16:43 pm
content: We added a new section on the oscilloscope website listing special offers, promotions and packages for oscilloscopes:www.oscopes.info/promotions/

author: Wuerstchenhund
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 08, 2015, 07:10:06 pm
content: Quote from: aat24 on January 08, 2015, 03:16:43 pmReally, promotions? Your website lacks serious content and you're adding promotions (which all link to the same website anyways)? I mean, it's not that manufacturers don't advertise their promotions on their website and any EE news aggregator out there, which do that much better anyways.No offense but you should really start adding some real content of value. There are literally thousands of topics I can think about that relate to scopes. Promotions are pretty much at the bottom of the list.

author: edavid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 08, 2015, 09:25:31 pm
content: Quote from: Wuerstchenhund on January 08, 2015, 07:10:06 pmWell, I half disagree. If they provided the actual promotion details, instead of a useless generic link, that would be useful.

author: CountParadox
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: January 08, 2015, 10:29:40 pm
content: I came here to post this, I think if you can spare the space to start storing manuals in a central place, organised in a wiki form or something, then you would probably get more traffic/interest.You could have an area where users could submit manuals to be reviewed and sortedQuote

author: Wuerstchenhund
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 08, 2015, 11:28:34 pm
content: Quote from: edavid on January 08, 2015, 09:25:31 pmIndeed. It might also help if there was at least information for promos of more than just one manufacturer (which happens to be a German one, as apparently is the site owner).This somehow reminds me of the 90's when dozens of half-arsed websites came up made by people who cobbled together some very basic 'webpages (anyone remembers FortuneCity, Tripod, Lycos, Geocities of the old days?) which were notably low on content and actual information, and then went through the newsgroups telling world & dog about their new hot page about some topic.My gut feeling is that this will end up as another unmaintained zombie site like so many before.

author: nowlan
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 09, 2015, 07:41:08 am
content: These thumbnails are small, but very visibly slow to render. Is my internet that bad?http://www.oscopes.info/http://www.oscopes.info/images/stories/2015/GW-GDS-2000E.jpg1,081px × 795px (scaled to 128px × 94px)59.26 KB (60,686 bytes)http://www.oscopes.info/images/stories/2015/SpecialOffers.jpg412px × 344px (scaled to 122px × 102px)45.81 KB (46,907 bytes)

author: IconicPCB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 10, 2015, 04:31:56 am
content: Another whinging pom...

author: aat24
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: February 11, 2015, 09:02:05 pm
content: @WuerstchenhundBuilding up good content takes some time. So please be patient and stay tunedConcerning the promotions: on beginning of January most oscilloscope suppliers did not have any promotions running. Meanwhile we have 13 promotions of 8 manufacturers listed (only two of them coming from Germany).

author: Wuerstchenhund
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 11, 2015, 09:10:51 pm
content: Quote from: aat24 on February 11, 2015, 09:02:05 pmThat may be but a good cook doesn't send his food out unless it's thoroughly cookedIn short, don't launch and promote a website before you have added at least a reasonable level of content.

author: radiomog
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: February 11, 2015, 09:29:47 pm
content: building a website takes time, BTDT.constructive criticism helps as does material contribution!I haven't spent a lot of time there, I just stumbled upon this post.See if Tektronix will let you share their XYZ's of Oscilloscope use (~) and I'm pretty sure there are other techbriefs/white papers available by other equipment manufactures.I know that Rohde & Schwarz have a doc, but it's listed as advertisement.Offer up I bit of 'free' advertising in exchange for doing so.

author: Hugoneus
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 12, 2015, 03:31:23 am
content: How about a section with links to good YouTube scope reviews and tutorials?

author: TunerSandwich
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 12, 2015, 07:59:44 am
content: Quote from: IconicPCB on December 17, 2014, 10:28:50 pmNow THAT is something I would find useful....chances are you would get a hit from me everytime I wanted to look something up. I have collections of manuals and documents in PDF but often just google because it's faster than sifting through my horribly disorganized, cryptic file naming conventions.

author: Yago
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 12, 2015, 01:01:47 pm
content: If you are in Germany, how about go and see Martin, he has so much material for your timeline, or even a tek museum section.Martin is nice guy and it would be nice if you could return the favour to him by helping him find(or make) that elusive card he is looking for.His thread is here:https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/vintage-tek-restoration-pictures-by-martin/