RE: FLASH: Another Site Check

[Eric Dunham]

Exactly! It's sites like benefon.com <<below>> that annoy people with flash.

I had to stop looking at it after the second loading sequence came up. A lot

of good web design can be traced back to simple psychology...the first

impressions that we get of almost anything occur within the first 7 seconds.

After 7 seconds and still having nothing but a cute "Loading" message, I was

pretty annoyed. I didn't even know what the purpose of the site was...I just

left because I didn't care anymore. So it's not necessarily a good thing to

pile all the flash techniques and dHTML that you know into one page, it's a

matter of combining those elements into a stunning, yet still efficient,

presentation of your information. Web design doesn't (and usually shouldn't)

have to be complex to be innovative and enjoyable. Some of the best sites

out there are simple, yet unique and eye-catching enough to keep users

coming back. And if you're going to use a lot of flash animation, please

don't make half of it a cute "Loading" design...A good site that was done

with flash that keeps the user occupied (at least in my opinion) is

http://www.symbionts.com please do check it out :)

-Eric Dunham


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Nolst Trenite

Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 4:48 PM

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Subject: RE: FLASH: Another Site Check



Yes, the only companies that actually constantly need flash anims are

webdesign companies. Other companies can also have it, but making

the information available to the user is supposed to be the main target.

An example of such a webpage is for instance

http://www.benefon.com/ I took 10 times longer to find the product

information I was looking for, as compared to if it where a normal

webpage.


my 2c,


Noel



From:           	"Eric Dunham" <

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Subject:        	RE: FLASH: Another Site Check

Date sent:      	Thu, 14 Oct 1999 14:58:00 -0500

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> The site is nice, but there are some things that just become too much.

> Repeat visitors to your site are going to get tired of having to wait for

> the animating description to come up over all the buttons so that they can

> tell what's what quickly. Granted, it makes a nice first impression, but

> don't you think that you'd get a little tired of having to wait for th

> same thing every time you went and visited a site? Say someone like Yahoo!

> or Ebay did that kind of stuff...think how many fewer hits they would get.

> Don't get me wrong, I like the movie and it looks nice, but sometimes you

> can make something go a little overboard. Think about optimizing not only

> the file size, but also the viewer's experience. Ask yourself "Do I really

> need this or that little trick to achieve the effect I want for the site?"

> and the main question should be "What effect does this have on the overall

> impact of the site from the viewer's perspective?" There are some things

> that are nice to see once, like I said, but you can't watch them everyday

> because it becomes tiring having to wait for the animation on all the

> buttons, and not being able to turn of the elevator music, etc. One last

> point of contructive criticism ;-) : do you really need to have the nav

> bar movable by the user. I understand that it might be a convenience for

> the user at times, but couldn't it also be seen as an inconvenience when

> they move it to a certain place and then it gets covered by part of the

> movie that they load (or vice versa)? Or what if they accidentally moved

> it off the entire screen with a slip of the mouse...? I think that making

> it stationary somewhere that won't be intrusive to the movie playback (and

> vice versa again) would be a better option. You can take all this however

> you want, this is just my opinion of the site :) -Eric Dunham

>

>

>

>

> >First flash site.  I'm needing constructive criticism here.

> >

> >www.imaginatics.com

> >

> >Some warnings:

> >

> >(1)  File size is very large (450K) -- I'm optimizing next week.

> >(2)  I've heard that the double click menu doesn't work on certain

> browsers

> >on Macs.  I don't have a Mac here online (working on that) so I

> haven't been

> >able to check.  If this happens to you -- WHY???

> >(3)  I haven't worked out the best streaming yet.  So, if the double

> click

> >menu works for you -- go to the first ones first. (Streaming the

> other

> >sections in the background)

> >

> >OK -- I think that's it for now.  Thank you to whomever takes the

> time to

> >check this out!

> >

> >

> >

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