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Subject: Re: FLASH: skip intro - advice please
From: marcia patrice ganeles
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 20:13:08 +0100

thanks randy, i don't much like the intros myself, and we do have plenty of
text for the audience that I can take out of the movie and just present in the
intro (loading)...which might just give enough time to load the images and
audio for the beginning parts. I don't think people will want to view this
demo more than once - it's a sell for our new wap service - so once you got it,
you got it! marcia




-----Original Message-----
From: Randy Kato rkatoatbraincraft [dot] com
Sent: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 14:22:15 -0400
To: flasheratchinwag [dot] com
Subject: Re: FLASH: skip intro - advice please


Marcia,

There are a few ways to avoid the "Loading..." screen. If it's for a corporate
site,
there may be some message that they would like to get out to the world. A
paragraph
or two of text loads quickly and requires time to read, giving the rest of the
movie
time to load. However this can get old if it's a site that people will revisit
often
-- y'know how you tune out the safety speech on airplanes.

Another way is to give the user something to do. There have been sites that
employ
little games or "mouse candy" that you can play with while the rest of the site
loads -- http://www.yugop.com has a great example. If done well, users may even
get
frustrated because the rest of the site loads and they want to keep on playing.
This
may not be appropriate for a corporate site though.

The dislike of useless intros and boring loading screens is pretty widespread,
especially on this list, so you may get some more/better suggestions.

HTH,
Randy


marcia patrice ganeles wrote:

> Checked out your link to skipintro - get the message...so what do you do if
you
> have a large movie that's gotta load? any advice is appreciated from a
newbie -
> my company has given me a project with audi and bitmap images that is turning
> into a pretty large swf file...help, please...thanks, marcia

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