Re: FLASH: Site check:http://www.dentalportal.com/flash/tmj.html

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 12:11 PM 1/3/00 , you wrote:


>As couple of people asked to see this project when it was completed. (There

>still may be some typos) I would appreciate any comments for improvement

>

>http://www.dentalportal.com/flash/tmj.html


Hi Larry,


It looks good. You've done a lot to clean it up. I didn't try to proof it, 

but did notice "potentil" needs to be "potential" under the genetics 

discussion.


First screen says "click on the button to start" but there are three 

buttons and only one starts the presentation. I suggest you use just the 

forward button in this screen, and place the word "start" beside it.


When the hand comes up to the jaw, the movement could happen faster.


One of the last frames has a lot of tiny yellow text that is hard to read 

on a 17" monitor at 1024 resolution. It may need to be bigger; or a 

different color might be more legible.


It would be nice to be able to back up and/or return to the start once 

you've reached the end. I know I can hit my refresh button, but many web 

surfers don't know that.


If I were going to do more revising to this piece, I'd thin about making 

the interactivity very intuitive and consistent to eliminate the need for 

instructions on so many of the screens. For example, one convention I use a 

lot is to highlight and underline all "hot" text, as one is used to seeing 

links in a browser, so the user will probably know to mouse over and/or 

click on it. This would probably need to be explained just once at the outset.


All in all a nice piece, and I learned some good things from it!

Marc Hoffman


Poison Dart Frog Media: Specializing in Flash Animation and Digital Audio 

Production

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