Re: FLASH: MM, why the hassle?!

[David Gary Studios]

>Hi DG,

>

>The spelling is right.  I am more selective because unlike John I am not a

>support professional and not one of our technical experts.

>(news://forums.macromedia.com/macromedia.flash).


>

anyway: to reach customer service, //customerservicemacromedia [dot] com (mailto://customerservicemacromedia [dot] com)

>I think is the right address.  To reach any of the development teams, try:


>

//wish-flashmacromedia [dot] com (mailto://wish-flashmacromedia [dot] com),

>

//wish-dreamweavermacromedia [dot] com (mailto://wish-dreamweavermacromedia [dot] com),

>

//wish-generatormacromedia [dot] com (mailto://wish-generatormacromedia [dot] com)

Hiya Dave, good to see your still lurking?


Thank you for those contacts. Even though they are familiar to me, I am sure

others on the list would love to give feedback.


>We have an awesome design team in house, and I happen to disagree with your

>assesment of the site.  But please keep in mind that the developers are

>just developers like anyone else on this list, not an impersonal corporate

>entity, and don't really deserve unsolicited bashing of their work.


I hope my comments were not taken as an insult, but instead as an

indication. Generic ergonomics and basic design principals are nothing new

to aspiring interactive media designers educating themselves. IMHO, these

basic principals are extinct on MM's shockwave.com site. It's not "bad"

flash, just amateur and on a professional level, uneffective. Again, MM's

decisions effect all of those that spend hundreds, even thousands of hours,

devoting time out of their lives promoting your technology.


>Anyway, I am sure you meant no offense,


Absolutely.


>but I think it is generally not considered great netiquette to criticize a

fellow list members' work without a site >critique request from that

developer.


Again, no criticizim intended. I try to stay away from critiquing other

people's work and, yes, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But the use of

the medium here, I believe, should to professionally "sell" the product and

not some "Rembrant" piece of Flash work to "WOW" its visitors. From my

educational experience, the flash at issue does not achieve this.


Again, IMHO.


-DG-

http://www.davidgarystudios.com




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