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Subject:	Re: FLASH: skip intro - advice please
From:	Hal Medrano
Date:	Thu, 6 Jul 2000 20:37:54 +0100

>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.

The way to avoid this is to set a cookie that only loads the intro if the
user has never visited the site before. If the user has already visited,
they'll be shot past the intro and straight to the content.

If you have a long intro, you might want to consider this regardless of
what preloading technique you choose.

Good luck!

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Hal Medrano
New Media Group
U S WEST Creative Services

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