RE: FLASH: flash file sizes

[Andy Mrozkowski]

John,

You are definitely on the right track. Once you trace an image, you can

safely delete the bmp that it came from. This might take a few tries if you

haven't done much tracing. Flash's trace works fine, but you may have to

undo and then adjust the settings and try again. The general rule around

here is:

If it takes too long to trace, it will probably take too long to download.

This is rather general, and you can optimize the curves

(modify>curves>optimize) if the vector is too intense.

Also, there are third party tracers that are equally good:

Adobe Streamline (out of production, I think, but great if you can find it)

another is XAOS segmenter, (I downloaded the trial, I will let the group

know how well it works)

As far as your navigational style goes; I would stick with the multiple

swf's. Maybe even try different html pages for each. This will give the user

the 'back' button. They get a little squirrelly when 'back' actually takes

them to a site they came from.

(one of Flash's shortcoming's, but definitely a workaround)

As far as overall size, try to target your audience.

If it is a corporate site, your audience has broadband access (T1,T3,ADSL,

etc)

If it is for mass consumption by the public, try to keep it under 125k or

so(just a general figure)and give the user some preloading text to keep

their eyes busy. Remember, text will keep the user from even realizing that

there is something loading in the background.

Avoid the dreaded: "please wait...loading..."

hth

andy


Andy Mrozkowski

UI Designer

Yellow Brick Solutions <http://www.yellowbricksolutions.com/>




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From: ownerchinwag [dot] com [ownerchinwag [dot] com]On">mailto:ownerchinwag [dot] com]On Behalf Of john

> duffy

> Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 8:29 AM

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> Subject: FLASH: flash file sizes

>

>

> Hello there everyone

>

> I was wondering if anyone could give me some tips on flash file

> sizes. Im doing quite a large website at the minute and im worried

> that the file size might get too big.Ive two questions really

>

> 1.Ive had to import quite a large image. Its only one colour

> so i though i could trace it. Even though ive optimised the gif

> before importing it the file size of the swf file still seems quite

> large. Im not 100% sure how to do tracing. So i delete the jpg from

> the library afterwards?

>

> Secondly there are lots of different pages on the site with varying

> dergrees of animation on each page. The front page has most of the

> fancy animation.

>

> Im thinking about splitting it into different html pages. Is this a

> good or stupid idea? On one hand im trying to reduce theoverall file

> size but then again i dont want people having to wait ages for each

> section to download and put them off.

>

> If anyone has any advice,tips or sites that could help me I would be

> extremely grateful.

>

> Thanks in advance

> John Duffy

>

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