Re: FLASH: Site Test: www.pepsicenter.com

[Hal Medrano]

>At 03:54 PM 8/24/99 -0700, you wrote:

>>Hi folks,

>>

>>The fruits of my team's labors are up on the web:

>>http://www.thepepsicenter.com

>

>Hi Hal,

>

>Generally I thought it was well laid-out and pretty easy to navigate (my

>top criteria for information-based Flash). Some of the opening transitions

>had funny little jumps in them in what seemed like the final frame or two

>of each tween, as if you converted the tween to keyframes and then chopped

>out the next-to-last keyframe of the transition. The calendar events are

>hard to read on a 17" monitor (type is too small). Also I thought they may

>as well expand on mouseover rather than on press/release, and the "x" for

>closing an event is not too evident (mouseover effect would obviate the

>need for clicking to close it). Also in calendar, the first time I pressed

>"next" nothing seemed to happen, so I pressed it again and next thing I

>knew I was two month's down the line. So I would have like feedback to

>indicate the first click had registered.

>

>I'm on a cable modem so I couldn't tell if download time was a problem.

>


Hi Marc,


Hey, thanks for the great critique!  I totally agree with the 17' monitor

visibility, but the damn thing is so damn CPU-intensive I'm afraid to play

it fullscreen (chug, chug, chug). Maybe I should make the text boxes

bigger?  I like the idea of expanding the calendar onMouseOver; I think

that would make it a lot more usable.  I didn't see the tween jumps you're

describing but I'll check for them tomorrow.  I'll also check that

bugginess with the Load Movie on the calendar.


Great calls, Marc. I really appreciate it.


Hal


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Hal Medrano

Web Multimedia & Flash

http://www.speakeasy.org/~halito

206.323.7852


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