Re: Flash Site Request

[Marc Hoffman]

At 07:41 AM 7/2/98 -0500, you wrote:

 I, too, am attempting to use Flash for delivering

>educational tutorials.  I am finding my biggest limitation to be the

>"graphic design" elements, since I am certainly not an artist.  You clearly

>are much farther ahead in this regard.   I am hoping that with future grants

>I will be able to hire some computer graphic artists to help.  Right now, we

>have two tutorials completed, and are near completion of two more.  I would

>be interested in your opinion.  You can find them at:

http://nutrition.uvm.edu/nusc/uww/

>

>Again, nice job.

>Stephen Pintauro


I made a quick tour of your site, Stephen.  I think it's an excellent use

of Flash

for a tutorial.  Although I can appreciate your wanting more cutting edge

graphics,

I think the ones you've got are just fine.


I looked primarily at the underwater weighing section. Especially nice was

the animated graph explaining the factoring of lung capacity. It

would be so much harder to show this any other way.


A couple of suggestions:

-make loading times (especially the first few transitions) faster,

 or be sure to explain up front that there is loading time involved.


-shorten the Next and Back button sounds; they become distracting and

 repetitious.  I would prefer something short and innocuous that simply

 lets me know my mouseclick has been recognized.


Other than that I really think this is a good job and recommend others on this

list check it out.  It's practical, entertaining, and concise.


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