1st Flash site

by Joan Gillen <jgillen(at)earthlink.net>

 Date:  Thu, 2 Jul 1998 11:55:46 -0400
 To:  Kevin Murphy <kjm(at)pcfastnet.com>
 Cc:  HWG-Critique <hwg-critique(at)mail.hwg.org>
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More power to you<g>

Have been working with Flash myself and haven't gotten the nerve to try a
page. I'm on a PowerMac 9600/300, NNC 4.0.5, 33.6 modem

http://www.pcfastnet.com/~kjm/adventureswest/canyonsflash.htm
over three minutes to load and the animation was about twice as high as my
monitor

nowhere to go, working backwards to:
http://www.pcfastnet.com/~kjm/adventureswest/ I got a black screen with two
broken image boxes - load image wouldn't work, so I went back again:

http://www.pcfastnet.com/~kjm/ revealed a fast loading entrance and that
led to:

http://www.pcfastnet.com/~kjm/adventureswest/main_frame.htm where the links
reverted to white boxes when my cursor moved over them, apparently, all
your pages do the same thing with the links.

Went back to double check the initial page:
http://www.pcfastnet.com/~kjm/adventureswest/canyonsflash.htm since it was
cached, it began immediately, moving down below my monitors ability to
follow the action. The lettering is almost as if a spray can had been used
to create it (a font I'm missing)

I suspect that the key is pre-loading, or putting up a sign to encourage
folks to wait - initially, I got a blank white page for close to 2 1/2
minutes before seeing anything. If you're using Flash3 - AfterShock should
bring the size down below 311K. I was running at 2.1K/sec and it took 3:23.

Hope you'll be there for me when I've finished pawing through all of
Macromedias tutorials and at last give it a try ;-)

Joan Gillen
<mailto:jgillen(at)earthlink.net>

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