Re: FLASH: New Site Please Look

[Rusty Worden]

Thank you very much for your well said critique David. I will see what I can do about vectorizing the images. I feel really stupid for having not even thought about it...DUH!!! Thanks again...


At 12:00 AM 1/6/99 -0500, you wrote:

>Hi Rusty,

>

>> Http://www.geocities.com/soho/cafe/8484

>

>It is not only your CISCO site that relies too heavily on bitmaps.

>The buttons and the Web Works on the right should definately be

>vectorized to give a much cleaner look. With Flash and vectors you can

>have perfect text, boxes with straight edges and gradients that make

>smooth clean transitions.

>

>If this is judged on the basis of a non-Flashed site it isn't bad but

>based on the capabilities of Flash it isn't up to par technically.

>

>Nice Morphing.

>I like the center border but wonder how many bytes it took.

>The logo in the upper left is interesting but wonder if it would look

>even better if the text was vectors (in this case making the text

>vectors would probably add to the file size).

>

>When working in Flash there are always trade offs. To add realism and

>make things less rigid and cartoonish you don't want to introduce low

>quality text and basic shapes with jagged edges.

>

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