Detroit_stylin Member Username: Detroit_stylin
Post Number: 3052 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Sunday, October 22, 2006 - 8:19 pm: | |
Does anyone on this forum know anything about Flash? I am currently working on a website and would like to include flash on the spash page. |
Nip Member Username: Nip
Post Number: 107 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Friday, October 27, 2006 - 5:42 pm: | |
what do you want to know? |
Aiw
Member Username: Aiw
Post Number: 5942 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Sunday, October 29, 2006 - 11:43 am: | |
Gordon? |
Detroit_stylin Member Username: Detroit_stylin
Post Number: 3104 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Sunday, October 29, 2006 - 11:41 pm: | |
Nip is there is information that you could hel;p me with drop me an email... detroitstylin2000 @ yahoo.com Put DYES in the subject line so that way I know what it is about... |
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765
Post Number: 1134 Registered: 01-2004
| Posted on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 3:22 pm: | |
Heres some information that should really help: splash pages went out of style in about 1999. |
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell
Post Number: 3199 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 8:32 pm: | |
Following up on Mauser... There is even a Flash book written called "Skip Intro". Many of my customers have inquired about adding Flash presentations on their home pages. I always reply by asking them what they do when they come to a site with a Flash presentation that has a Skip Intro link that appears during the inevitable wait for the Flash load. Most agree that they skip it with the rest saying they watch it once and skip on future visits, whereupon it becomes a nuisance. The preponderance of web visitors want to get to the goods as quickly as possible with the fewest clicks. Flash intros can seem like forced guidance and even condescending and a wasted click. [The first time the Chinese Emperor heard the joke he laughed, the second time he heard it he frowned, the third time he heard it, had the teller's head lopped off.] Where Flash works, IMO, are for sites like ad sites for movies. They are one time shots, not ongoing evolving sites that visitors return to again and again and were visitors expect to sit back and be entertained but won't return to again. Finally, with layers, javascript behaviors and stylesheets, most of the tricks Flash offers can be created much more simply with a lot less load time. |
Aiw
Member Username: Aiw
Post Number: 5954 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 9:04 pm: | |
The whole internet agrees, Flash Sucks. |
Nip Member Username: Nip
Post Number: 108 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 11:24 pm: | |
Lowell, are you familiar with ActionScript? Although I agree with you to a certain extent, I disagree with your last point. The fact of the matter is that "flash tricks" are quite simple, provided you can code ActionScript (which is a lot like javascript). It's a matter of putting all your objects onto the stage and programming their positions and behaviors using ActionScript. |
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell
Post Number: 3202 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, November 01, 2006 - 12:42 am: | |
Yes I am familiar with it Nip and Action script's predecessor in Macromind's [later Macromedia's now Adobe's] Director called lingo with which I created Total Intervention in 95. There is a lot that can be done with Flash and I am always keeping an eye on it, but for 99% of the web, it is overkill and can slow down both web display,development and management unless used for very clear purposes. |
Detroit_stylin Member Username: Detroit_stylin
Post Number: 3112 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, November 01, 2006 - 10:11 am: | |
How difficult is ActionScript? I think that's more or less what I actually need... |
Detroit_stylin Member Username: Detroit_stylin
Post Number: 3113 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, November 01, 2006 - 10:13 am: | |
Well Flash will work for what I need it for. It is for a fashion designer that does couture designs... If you look at the sites of people like Dolce Gabbana, and Jean-Paul Gultierre they have some pretty extravagant sites... |
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell
Post Number: 3208 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, November 01, 2006 - 2:08 pm: | |
That's true Stylin'. Specialty sites and sites where image and style is really important are perfect for Flash. It is an amazing and powerful program. There was a time when I thought it would take over the web but the fast moving realities of most web commerce sites are not well suited for Flash approaches. |
Nip Member Username: Nip
Post Number: 109 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, November 01, 2006 - 2:38 pm: | |
ActionScript is a lot like javascript, if you are familiar. Its currently in version 2.0, but 3.0 is just around the corner. These days Flash is heading more toward application development. Some say it's the future of the Flash... |
Detroit_stylin Member Username: Detroit_stylin
Post Number: 3118 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, November 01, 2006 - 7:25 pm: | |
Yeah I do notice things like online presentations are done with flash more and more as opposed to Powerpoint... |
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765
Post Number: 1155 Registered: 01-2004
| Posted on Wednesday, November 01, 2006 - 9:30 pm: | |
Ajax is killin Action Script. No need for Flash. |