RE: Cry babies...

[Tracy]

I hadn't previously commented on Alan's work but here's what I think. As an

information interface for web viewing, the piece doesn't quite work (but

there is a lot that could be done to make it work).


Regarding viewers and how willing they should or shouldn't be to wait ... I

believe that an audience who is looking for artwork is more willing to wait

for a longer download. But an audience who is looking for information is

going to become frustrated at anything that holds them up for so long.

Alan's interface's function is to present financial information, so his

viewers are likely to be in a more impatient mindset. That's just the way

it is.


A web based information interface needs to present some of the info fairly

quickly or you are going to lose people. If Alan would create a looping

wait for frame that loops just long enough to load a "pre" movie which

would entertain the viewers or give them part of what they are looking for

while the rest loads, that would go far to resolve the problem. Another

option would be to ditch the opening screen and hop right into the guts of

the movie .... or trim the opening scene down a bit. Or maybe a combination

of both.


Tracy



>Christian wrote...

>

>Are you kidding me?

>

>6 posts from 6 different people whining about the size of

>http://ct.ai.co.za/signposts/intro.html

>

>........kudos to Alan.  If these frugal bandwidth users would have taken

>the

>time to view your site, they would have been pleasantly rewarded.  Jeez

>people, the site starts running about 40% through the d-load.

>

>You did a fantastic job!  A real marriage of content and design which

>lacks

>from most projects as of late.

>

>is this a group of artists?     or over-authoritative tech babblers?

>>>SNIP!

>

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