Re: FLASH: website checkarooo

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

Hi, David.



At 01:23 AM 5/26/99 -0400, you wrote:

>here is new and improved www.hhcarpet.com.... I

>learned a hell of a lot about downloading since then (yall know who you are)

>and pulled a little tricky scheme to shove it down a 56k in about 15

>seconds.


Well, I'm using Netscape Communicator 4.5 on a 56k connection,which on my

line translates to a 48k connection.  It took 38 seconds before I saw

anything, then I watched the "loading" sign for another 3 minutes, then I

saw a brief animation "We've got you covered," then nothing for another

half minute or so. Are you sure your "trick" isn't that it's already in

cache on your machine?


Your design is stunning, really top-notch, but I don't think you can expect

potential customers to wait over 4 minutes (assuming they have a 56k modem,

which is not a good assumption to make) before getting any information of

substance. I don't know what the market surveys say, but I'd figure about

10 seconds of downtime should be the absolute limit, then viewers should be

getting meaningful information piped at them at a rate that keeps them busy

until more interesting, interactive content loads.  I would also make the

"music off" button more obvious.




> I also turned turned it from 70 layers to 8 thinking that would

>make it load faster (am I wrong?). 


Layers exist only in the authoring file, not in the .swf, which in effect

combines them into one layer. Layers cost you nothing in byte size. Sorry!



> I got lazy at the end but if anyone can

>give me an idea for *simple* page transistor please let me know.



What's a "page transistor?"





Marc Hoffman

marcdartfrogmedia [dot] com (mailto:marcdartfrogmedia [dot] com)

Flash3 Portfolio: <http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/sampler>, featured 

in Flash 3 Web Animation, by Ken Milburn.


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