Vijay and the group , great job on the website.
Apologize for repeats if any Haven't read the previous
comments and suggestions.
* It is great suggestion to have a text friendly version too.
Flash is good for first time visitors viewers who belong to certain
genre , but if you want loyal customer base who come back to the
site again and again , text version is the way to go.
* Does ARR Blog ? Does he want to Blog ? it is great way to
relate to fans. There are so many interviews of ARR all over the
media , but one place , where he talks to his fans about what he
thinks , without being questioned would be great. Just an idea.
* You could also consider guest bloggers talking abt ARR eg
would be Amir Khan.
* If it is possible look how the site behaves in Mozilla /
Firefox IE might be big customer base , but mozilla has been
catching up fast and is already a big player. Right now primary pop
ups works fine , but supplementary pop us ( eg : wall paper ) get
loaded within the parent , leaving no way to navigate to home in
firefox. Text friendly version will not have any issues with
firefox.
* Even though you give the user the option to switch the audio
off , turn it off automatically after some time. Be context
sensitive with background music when u navigate to an eye
candy page ( eg: interactive discography ) you can keep the
music on. When you go to pages which need attention of the user
like interviews , automatically switch off background music.
* So many ARR's videos out there on internet may be
section for selected videos If you are space sensitive , just
embed borrowed content.
* Throw sample music has hidden gems in the website . Have seen
people talk abt music from Bose / Meenaxi not being a commercial
success hide samples from those albums in the website and
give info about those albums and links to website from where they
can buy these albums in house website marketing .
* There are lots of places on the flash site with the hyperlink
cursor ( clickable hand ) ( eg : discography ) when there is
no real content to click on please do look in to them . Sorry if
I am cherry picking on this ; )
--- In [email protected], "Ameer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
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> I agree with Kalimuthu, Congrates and a big thanks for the team
working on
> the site. With BSNL broadband connection in Chennai, I find it very
slow in
> downloading the flash intro. of ARR site. Can we access the main manu
and
> contents in 5-10 seconds in a network like ours in Chennai? That will
> encourage us to visit the site often
>
>
>
> I have been thinking of writing this even since the ATM demo was
uploaded in
> that site.
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>
>
> Cheers
>
>
>
> K. M. Ameer
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> Wed Oct 31, 2007 11:44 pm (PST)
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> Googling A R Rahman yields arrahman.com on the top, beating
> wikipedia.com, which is great..
>
> BTW, are we going to have the same Flash (welcome screen) forever? I
> feel Flash diminishes the seriousness of the content we are trying to
> depict. But we can retain flash for samples; and other contents
> wherever needed.
>
> Secondly, many will not like Second screen being poped up when you
> click 'Enter Screen'.
>
> Shall I request you to reconsider the site design? Prehaps with less
> animation, more focus on the text part (Like Google / Wikipedia),
> still, retaining flash for audio contents.
>
> Just my opinion.
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