Re: FLASH: OT: Convincing people of Flash [Michael Galvin]

[Clodagh O'Donovan]

I totally agree with you Michael - The Eircom site could benefit hugely from the use of Flash.  I'm sure eventually the message will get through to your boss - but probably only after someone like ESAT start using it - and from a look at their site - that won't be soon!!!  If I were you I'd print off a copy of the Macromedia White paper on Flash 4 "Flash Player

for Developers and Publishers".  Maybe the facts and figures might convince him.


Clo


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Michael Galvin wrote:


> So I redesigned the corporate website on my own time, and without informing the company.  They'd only just changed the site recently, and would not have gone for changing it again so soon.  However, like most Irish companies, our website seems to be stuck in the early 90s.

>

> So I used Flash4 and the existing content to make it look more exciting.   I showed it to the marketing manager, who spent most of the last month looking at our competitors' websites to see how we're doing.

>

> He took one look at it, and started talking rubbish about "bullet points" and animated gifs.  He then alarmed me by showing some of his 'favourites' which consisted solely of the standard corporate fare (menu on the side, loads of text, links all over the place).  I tried convincing him that an F4 demo would show us off a lot better, but he wasn't listening.

>

> How do I go about convincing someone that Flash is "where it's at", as opposed to a fly-by-night thing only geeks appreciate.

>

> Or am I wrong?

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