RE: FLASH: First web site. Beta site test.

[JGL]

> 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.


I don't think this was intentional on the developers part . . .


> > 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


Hey, isn't that one of the points of this list, sort of a QC. Shouldn't

people learning Flash be allowed to use this list as Quality Check and not

get lambasted for errors? By the way, the above a common mistake in Flash

development, I think. The default in the goto frame action is set to goto

and stop. If you don't change that to goto and play, this can happen when

building preloader loops etc. Depending on exactly how the file was set up,

a refresh may skip the preloader (since it is loaded by then) and then play.

<small assumption on my part>


> > 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.


He said it was his first web site. jeez, I thought it was looking good for a

first attempt. I understand why people would get so far with a new

technology and want to test it, bounce it off us as a means to keep from

continuing to make mistakes that have to be undone - or worse case scrapped

and started over. Anyway, I think this forum IS more about discussing the

technology and how to make it work as opposed to design. Although design is

a critical element, I didn't join this list to learn design, I joined to

learn how to Flash - how to use the technology . . . And how else do we find

if it works on various platforms, browsers etc. without the potpourri of

that and the willingness of the kind souls we have available here?


jgl



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