RE: Cry babies...

[Jim Beck]

Matt, this is a very very good point. Seeing an animation once is cool, but

having to sit through it when you know where you want to go is a mistake. To

be honest, I felt this with DKR's 7nights site (recently posted for

inspection) but didn't say anything about it.  I wanted to check the links

out, but didn't want to sit through  the animations each time, even tho they

were pretty short. good design discussions lately!


Jim Curry you are a brave man and I respect you muchly for admitting you

have an animated e-mail link (well, and also for you excellent web work...).

I hope you keep it!!  Can't let the David Siegels of the world make creative

decisions for us!


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Gitchell

Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 1998 9:02 AM

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Subject: Re: Cry babies...



"I've always been a proponent of tiny file sizes, and although the overall

file

size may not matter so much in Flash, it's important that you get people

something to see quick.

Like 3-5 seconds quick, I'd say.

I think another mistake that's often made is to put a big animation upon

download that people can't escape from.

Apologetically (as John C. has been more than helpful to yours truly), I'm

going to pick on www.FlashCentral.com for a second.

If I go there and select "gallery," there's an animation that sets up all

the

menu choices. Fair enough.

But if I go to Macromedia's gallery, then hit my "back" button, I have to

sit

through _both_ animations, which takes like 30 seconds.

Granted, I'm probably a top candidate for a Ritalin prescription, but I

think

providing people with a means of clicking through the setups is probably

wise.

Instant gratification should at least be an option.

I made this same mistake on the first (Flash) incarnation of

http://www.coloradoavalanche.com where there was a 15-20 sec animation

sequence

whenever you entered that page.

I eventually added an escape hatch in the form of a "skip" button (before

removing it all together after my hockey team got eliminated...snif).


I think this diaper is starting to chafe...


--Matt

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Matt Gitchell

ersatz multimedia cat

mattgnavidec [dot] com

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