Re: seeking a second opinion

Hi Robert,

There are very few tricks that you can use to reduce the size of a Flash 
file and I'm sure your programmer knows those and has employed them.  Flash 
is famous for very large files - especially when, like your site, there are 
sound files involved.  Your file actually loaded fairly quickly on my 
Windows 98 Pentium II machine over a 56k modem.  The photo gallery files, 
however, were pretty slow.  If your programmer hasn't already, you might 
try reducing the size of the photos in a photoshop-type program before 
they're imported into Flash.  That will help some.  Generally speaking, you 
don't need 32 bit colors for screen resolution so you can reduce the number 
of colors and thereby reduce the size of the image.

One small critique, the repetitive 3 phrase music during preload gets to be 
a little much.  I would suggest using a longer music stream

HTH

Peggi

At 12:59 AM 2/15/01 -0500, Robert Clendaniel wrote:
>We are doing a site which makes heavy use of Flash.  The client,
>who overruled me in choosing to go for large, high-quality images
>and music despite my warnings that load times would be
>unacceptably high, now finds that load times are very high. :)
>
>I have complete faith in my Flash programmer, but for the
>client's sake I feel like I should get a second opinion, on
>whether some way exists to significantly reduce the applet sizes.
>
>Here's the front page of the site: note that not all of the
>site's pages are in place.
>
>http://www.accomack.com/tanglewood/index.html
>
>Robert L. Clendaniel
>BayLogic Internet Marketing Inc.
>robert(at)baylogic.com
>http://www.baylogic.com/

Peggi Rodgers
Flash Programmer	
Tide Pool Enterprises
Pacific Grove, CA
prodgers(at)tide-pool.com
www.tide-pool.com

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