FLASH: RE: foto3.com [was major MIDI prob]

[sahlan cherpitel]

Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 08:18:49 -0400

From: Helen Triolo <

designeri-technica [dot] com

>

Subject: Re: FLASH: major MIDI question


sahlan cherpitel wrote:

> 

> i thought i had a sound prob....

> 

> now it seems i've got worse

> 

> http://www.foto3.com

> 

> the text is supposed to be the lightest pink web safe with heads somewhat


Sahlan,


Same colors here they've always been: pink and lavender on dark blue

background (WinNT, Netscape).  If I may make one comment on that subject

though--I think the text is too fancy and takes up too much space on the

pages.  It would look better and be easier to read, imho, if you used

that fancy font more sparingly and had a small simple text for most of

the content--it's nice, there just shouldn't be so much of it.


The music played just fine today (interesting way to combine Flash and

QT on a page w/MIDI music)--it's a wonderful accompaniment to your

photos, which are fabulous.  I love the silhouettes on the hill and the

boy in the tree.  Any luck getting the music on Mac/Netscape yet?


Regards,

Helen

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Hi helen,


first the MIDI hang-up.  Yes! thank God... i delved into the html4 book

tonight & found a ref to the autostart tag... somehow IE doesn't need it &

NS doesn't on WIN, & dreamweaver doesn't insert it, but when i put it in,

the sound played in netscape on my mac. Whoopee!  however, no control bar

shows up in the window, then mac users have the control strip to turn off

the music if they don't like tarrega or rodrigo or beethoven.... nothing is

ever exactly perfect in this goofy, bleeding edge tech world


also Pierre Schwob who has the MIDI Archives sent me the html for centering

tables which i also put into the sections where the movies don't size to

fit, and it worked too.... so tonight i really did my first bit of html

programming


& thank you for your kind words about my pictures... and i guess i have to

say that photography is really a gift from God, for my best work has always

been spontaneous... it just happens when i chance to be in the right place

at the right time, often without intention, or on something ordered, if i

set up a situation, then let it happen... or with the boy in the tree...

that was taken many years ago when i'd just come out of doing in-camera

movie multiple exposures & experimented with the same in stills, not knowing

exactly what image i was exposing over another


my design work on the other hand is something i've learned & though it's

usually easy for me to shoot & get satisfactory results, design is often

grueling and torturous, yet it seems that i need to do both


yes, thank you also for your take on the type.... it flashed (not a pun!) on

me sometime a few days ago that maybe i was seeing too much of it, a little

bothersome


so tonight i also managed to go in & change the long text page in the photos

to the same font as the book title


and after i have a nap (gee, it's 5 am already) i'm going to tackle the

design section.... use avant garde, the face that lubalin designed, i think,

which is fitting, and it will be more business-like (though with taste)

which is appropriate for that section, even though there's a couple of

screens that look so neat right now


the zapf chancery isn't exactly a serifed face, but its surely not gothic, &

i can't recall when i ever saw two serifed faces work ok together... though

i did use americana on the photos


i'm not sure about wanting it too small though.... and that maybe because i

work at 1600 x 1200 on a 21 inch... i'm always seeing this barely readable

itsy-bitsy type that everyone seems so fond of... at the same time hand

kerning in flash is very tedious, about on a level with that of some

computer type programs of 5 years ago... take out a space between two

letters and spaces around other letters in the word change... not nearly as

sophisticated as illustrator or photoshop... & though one can import

straight text as editable from word, i read, i think text imported from

illustrator would become an object & uneditable, but i'm not sure... i

wonder if a lot of web designers use small type because they're so pressed

for space, or because it would really look lousy blown-up


see, told you it's torturous.... anyway, again i truly appreciate your

input, for it will improve the site....


and any other criticisms you have, please pass them on


now i'd better to rest before i go into lock up


kind regards,


sahlan






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