On 6/20/2010 2:45 PM, waldo kitty wrote:
hummm... maybe it should be a flash animation, then? there are thousands of professional and corporate sites that (for some silly reason) seem to feel that flash animation is ok :rolleyes:

hummm... maybe there should be NO animation, then?

Point 1: Just because there are plenty of other people doing it does not make it OK. Witness your eye roll.

Point 2: It is not the technique used that matters. It is the distraction from the content of the site that matters. Any animation/playing of video/flash is the problem. It is purely gratuitous eye candy. Adds nothing of value. Attracts no one. Impresses no one. Bothers many.

IMHO, the biggest reason other sites have this stuff is they let their graphic artists take orders from their marketing types and both have too much time on their hands. There is a serious lack of proper judgment to be had in business today (world-wide) so please let's not just do what others are doing or accept doing it because they do it.

Let's try this another way: This new site has just copied the FPC/Laz site. I've asked that they remove this part because it bothers me. Others have agreed. No one has yet to voice a different opinion. This subject has come up before and had similar results bu no changes have been made. I brought it up again because I don't think copying this part of the existing sites is a good idea, especially for a business/professional site.

Other than the fact the the FPC/Laz community is used to it, and therefore do not see any reason to remove it, why is it there? What purpose does it serve on this new site? I'll be the designer just saw it on the old site and copied it. I'd like to prod them to have a better reason than that for using it.


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