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Subject:	Re: FLASH: First web site. Beta site test.
From:	Tom Green
Date:	Wed, 19 Apr 2000 00:05:45 +0100

Brian wrote:

> > > ++ > > Can you please check out my site, it's my first website.
> > > ++ Comments,
> > > ++ > > suggestions would be appreciated!
> > > ++ > > http://wsumac.wayne.edu
> > > ++ > >
> > > ++ > > Thanks!
> > > ++
> > > ++ All Flash. No substance. Why bother?
>
> Now I finally get to see what this site is all about, now that I'm here at
> work on the ADSL line! :-)
>
> If I'm waiting for a Flash site to load, as what seemed to be the case
> earlier for me at home, how do I know when I need to wait or refresh? If the
> site is not as optimized as it could be and there is a lot of stuff to load,
> I'm not sure I want to refresh at some point and start the whole long
> process over again.

The whole point of interactivity here is to fall in love with the user not the
technology. I use a cable modem and it just sat there and sat there. How was I
to know that I had to refresh? Found it quite by accident. by then i was
feeling gnarly.

>
>
> And if it won't run after a refresh, well... I won't go there.
> Would that be a browser problem or a file problem?

That's called Quality Control. TETOTOAFM

>
>
> I like the general look and feel, the music, the fact that you can pick what
> volume to play the music at... but I don't know what the site is all about.
> Perhaps Tom said what he said because he doesn't see what the point is of it
> all to have a basis for offering constructive criticism, a position I find
> myself in to a degree. The only links that did anything were the news (none
> that mattered) and the info - which showed nothing.

Once I got in I was wondering about this myself. What's the point? It struck me
as a bit of an in-class exercise and I see these every day. Lots of Flash. No
substance. I am more concerned about the big picture than an exercise. If you
have to explain the point - to anyone- you have missed the objective. If they
have to ask you� now you have a real problem.

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