RE: FLASH: Another Site Check

[Lee Hunter]

Ahhh DOUBLE clicking!


Why, oh why, would you make it DOUBLE and not single clicking?


Or why not just have the menu pop right out on a mouse rollover?


In fact its such a nice discrete menu that you could just have it appear on

its own steam - without forcing the user to do anything. (by the way I

confess that I'm guilty of hiding menus on my own site)


The second time I went to your site I did see the VERY brief warning to

double click. And then the THIRD time I opened the page I caught the brief

suggestion to drag the button - which was helpful cause otherwise the menu

was much too far down the page (when I looked at it in an  800 x 600

monitor). One unfortunate side effect of allowing me to drag the menu was

that I inadvertently dragged it to a spot that interfered with a later part

of the site and it took my addled brain a while to realise that I could move

it out of the way.


If you have to give people instructions on how to do simple things on your

site its probably not good interface design. And if you insist on doing it

that way you shouldn't just flash the instructions briefly on the screen

expecting that we're watching closely.


For example I often click on an url and then go on to multi-task (reading

email etc) while I wait for the page to load. Sometime later I'll meander

back to the browser and see what came up. This means I will definitely miss

these little clues.


Also, as someone else mentioned, an endlessly looping music segment on a

static page without an off button or fadeout is pretty hard to take for more

than about 15-20 seconds max. This is the first time in a while I've seen

someone inflict the same loop throughout every page. It does get old very

quickly.


And just to get real picky - I found the first long bit of text -

imaginatics will work with clients etc - to be pretty awful. I read that and

thought "I don't want to know anything more about this company"


Sorry if this is all a bit rough but you did ask.


Regards


Lee Hunter



> If you double-clicked on the icon in the lower left corner and nothing

> happened, then there definitely is a problem.  It is supposed to open and

> show the menubar.  Please give feedback if you already tried this.

>

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