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Subject: | Flash Business Cards |
From: | John Croteau |
Date: | Thu, 28 May 1998 16:14:35 +0100 |
Hi all,
Business Card Test is available at Flash Central under FDDB Project.
Note, only Developer Button 1 is active now.
Though Ring is functional for the first 15 Full Page Test pages.
Loading time is about 1 Minute for the 15 10K on each page.
There will be an intro text and/or animation(s) to cover loading time.
Critique is requested now, some things will be able to be changed but
others will be locked in stone. Most important is Position on the page
for the Business Card and Ring Return Buttons.
A Zip file including Template, Local Hard Drive Testing files and
detailed instructions will be available Friday.
Specs:
Canvas 1150x620
350 Wide
200 High
400 x offset
90 y offset
Maximum file size - 10K
First 4 frames are reserved and should remain Blank Keyframes
Content Starts in Frame 5.
Linking to full page will be by Load Movie and from both the Name and
the Business Card display. Users can develop in Flash 2 but will have to
send FLA so TellTarget Link for Lad Movie can be added.
A lottery for Page positions will be held.
First page (only 15 on a page) will rotate monthly if more than 15
people apply. Only people who apply during initial lottery will be in
rotation. In other words if you wait to sign up after the lottery
sign-up you will not be on the first page.
There will be a sign-up form next week and and the number of entries
will be locked so you can decide which page you want to be on (based on
available positions left). There will be direct Link pages to the
Business Card pages so if you want to link directly to the page you are
on, it can be the opening page.
Costs:
$25 will cover period from start in June until Jan. 31, 1999
It will cover 3 changes of the BusinessCard.
Additional changes of BusinessCards will be $10.
Each BusinessCard will be pretested to make sure it meets specs and
won't interfer with other people's BusinessCards.
Full page Display pages will normally be on your server so there are no
charges for this.
If you need hosting for your full page or site I will have inexpensive
prices for this soon.
If you do not or cannot get your BusinessCard in on time you may lose
your position on a page but we will allow enough leeway so everyone
should have enough time.
The text version of the Database will be starting up in 2 weeks. Details
will follow soon. There is no charge for being listed in the Text
Database. Sign-up for the Flash Developers Group will be at the same
time.
We will heavily promote both the Flash Business Cards and text
Professional Flash Developers DataBase heavily starting late June or
start of July.
Our only disadvantage is that the viewers will be required to have a
Flash 3 plug-in/ActiveX control to view the Business Cards. But, I think
that the smooth interface and the great animations and graphics everyone
will include to promote their own work will easily compensate viewers
for the trouble of getting or upgrading their plugin or ActiveX control.
Flash Central's installation pages will be upgraded during the next 2 to
3 weeks to help reduce problem's associated with getting the Flash 3
plug-in or ActiveX control. These pages have been under successful tests
and are undergoing modification for FC.
The detection script is now working quite well to direct anyone with
Flash to either the Flash 2 version of Flash Central or the Flash 3
version of Flash Central if they have Flash 3. There is an enhancement
to the detection script which will put all MSIE 3 browsers in the
detectable rather than directable category which will speed all MSIE 3
visitors with Flash to the correct page whether they have VBScript 2.0
or later or not, this is also about 2 weeks away.
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