RE: ---------- >From: Howdy-Tzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: <lingo-l> Opening HTML files with Director. >Date: Tue, Apr 2, 2002, 10:24 AM
>That's why one includes instructions: > > 1. Insert the CD. > 2. Locate the "My computer" icon. Double-click to open it. > 3. Locate the CD-ROM icon. Double-click to open it. > 4. Locate the program. Double-click to run it. ---------- Does one put the instructions,,,, on the CD? If not (giggles), then the client wants to pay to have them printed on a sheet or on the packaging. They want their designers to make room for such instructional text amid the (in place of?) the (grid-based, of course) branding and promotional,,, brain-teaser,,, they have been laboring so hard to design? ---------- >You only have to tell users once, and you don't have to risk crashing >the machine. When I present it to clients like this they *always* >agree this is a better scheme than an autorun. ---------- I do media (anything to do with motion pictures, multimedia, motion graphics, "new" media, etc) design, development, and programming (including Director & Flash) for some of the biggest companies in the world (mostly financial and entertainment companies), but I've only had ONE client thus far harbor (or acquire!) any desire to go to any length to provide detailed printed "has-to-be idiot-proof" instructions on how to _use_ a CD. That was on a non-profit, State-sponsored CD that was being distributed to 100,000 active and retired,,, teachers! ---------- >Clients, Windows, and autorun are *not* forces of nature. They *can >be* resisted, if you try. ---------- I've found that _resistance_ is not really a quality that clients are typically looking for! I suppose it's all in how one would word it on the job bid. ---------- >And that *is* a platform slam. (Or is it a user slam? ;) ---------- I hear ya. Unfortunately (in a humorous way), I have to be able to non-slam all platforms equally. "Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches." Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Now, who would do THAT guy's bidding? Who would make sure, via enthusiastic purchasing, etc, THAT guy simply racks up profits? The kind of person who points to Mac users and calls THEM "snobs"? I find it humorous that I can run the Windows OS and Windows applications on the Macs here, but not visa-versa. A lot of PC users would say that they wouldn't WANT to run Mac OS on their PC, perhaps little knowing that they basically already are,,, Maybe it's something that dates a person, but most of us know what platform we rode into town on - especially with Director. Steve Bennett www.ifmp.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
