A good Flash intro?
December 12, 2000 2:09 PM Subscribe
posted by owillis at 2:52 PM on December 12, 2000
posted by kindall at 2:56 PM on December 12, 2000
posted by Sal Amander at 2:59 PM on December 12, 2000
posted by fleener at 3:00 PM on December 12, 2000
posted by 120degrees at 3:09 PM on December 12, 2000
Barring the requirement that the intro not distract the user/viewer from the *point* of the site, the lion's share of spflash also suffers from basic amateur multimedia (is that still a word?) mistakes (e.g., transitions too slow, leading the user by the nose through slowly developing phrases or even single words, an assumption of profundity, yadda). Gabocorp used to be an exception since their service *is* (or was) making kewl flash stuff. Since then the seem to have become stuck in boo land.
Shortest and most to the point, if still needless: Yipes.
posted by jplummer at 3:44 PM on December 12, 2000
Nosepilot still reigns.
posted by rodii at 3:44 PM on December 12, 2000
posted by noom at 4:03 PM on December 12, 2000
posted by leo at 6:18 PM on December 12, 2000
2) I'm not anti-Flash, I just don't know why I have to sit and watch it. Why can't I push it?
posted by argybarg at 6:32 PM on December 12, 2000
posted by waxpancake at 6:42 PM on December 12, 2000
posted by thirdball at 6:47 PM on December 12, 2000
Other than that, there really aren't many good Flash intros...especially for corporate sites.
posted by mkn at 7:18 PM on December 12, 2000
You guys need to spend more time around "normal people" - I showed some of these to three or four people, all of whom thought they were interesting and eye-catching. But wait, why would I want to have advertising that was interesting and eye-catching when we would all obviously rather sit around and debate whether links should be blue forever and ever because Mosaic worked that way once twelve thousand years ago?
posted by m.polo at 7:49 PM on December 12, 2000
"Can you make me something like this? My nephew came across this great site - Balthassar or something like that. You've got to see it, it'll blow you away!! Can you do it?"
To which we respond:
"Um, yeah, but why do you want your site to look like a scene from Clockwork Orange?"
We are usually greeted with blank stares.
"You know, where the guy is strapped into a chair and forced to watch unpleasant images on a big movie screen until he's deemed fit for society?"
"..."
"Stanley Kubrick . . . Clockwork Orange?"
"I'm sorry, I've not seen that film."
Sigh . . .
"Yeah, we can do it - leave a pile of cash with the receptionist on your way out."
And thus, the beautiful cycle of Flash continues.
posted by aladfar at 8:16 PM on December 12, 2000
Flash is making 20 year old FX cool because any yahoo can do it.
Having the best flash site on the web is like winning a pumpkin carving contest. It's going to look old and rotten in a few weeks and most people in the known universe could care less about the whole thing.
The less proprietary aps on the internet the better. It's time for someone to write a java alternative.
posted by john at 1:48 AM on December 13, 2000
The thing about Flash intros on corporate sites like this one is that they're just advertising, meant to impress customers and nothing else. They're meant to look, well, a bit flash. Have a look at the copy on this one - 'reliable, scalable, carrier-class' - that's just your standard e-commerce emptyspeak. It's not pretending to be profound. Getting too worked up about crappy flash intros like this one is a bit pointless - it's rather like getting peeved about TV ads becasue they're not ten-minute shorts. When flash intros stop working as advertising (because the average customer gets more attuned to them and they are therefore less impressive), companies will move on.
In the meantime, as thirdball points out, at least this lot have the courtesy to display their menu options immediately, which is unusual but strikes me as good practice.
posted by Caffa at 2:04 AM on December 13, 2000
John--you are the man. I love the pumpkin-carving analogy.
posted by rodii at 5:43 AM on December 13, 2000
Mind you, nosepilot is certainly a completely different usage of flash than corporate advertising.
As for the generic techno, I've actually kept the EYE4U window open for about half an hour now. I like generic techno when I'm working, it helps drown out the hoarde of noise the non-techs in my office seem to make every morning, but doesn't require any actual attention of mine to be wasted on it. :-)
posted by cCranium at 6:02 AM on December 13, 2000
Generic intros are annoying, though - unless you derive amusement from them by picking holes in them. But I don't think that means that there's no possibility for good or exciting work in flash (maybe even, shock horror, on corporate sites).
posted by Caffa at 8:18 AM on December 13, 2000
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posted by aladfar at 2:41 PM on December 12, 2000