>.> <.< I'm either bored, or stupid.

Grey_the_angel · Post by **Grey_the_angel** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 3:33 pm

hey... I've always wondered: has anybody everythought of making a flash opening for the site? I dunno why: I keep getting this idea of like random author avatars in my head doing old school comic book things. Like Batman's 1970 show. BAM! POW! AUTHOR~!

my mind works in mysterious ways.

so... yeah... thats all I got.

CJBurgandy · Post by **CJBurgandy** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 3:34 pm

I didn't read the post but after seeing the subject....

Subject line wrote:>.> <.< I'm either bored, or stupid.

I'm going to have to say the latter.

Ahaugen · Post by **Ahaugen** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 3:36 pm

i think we all work in the same way ... i mean, i have this insane idea of doing a massive crossover "music comic" to Emerson, Lake & Palmer's "Karn Evil 9 (First Impression Part Two)" as a powerpoint

Grey_the_angel · Post by **Grey_the_angel** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 3:38 pm

ahaugen wrote:i think we all work in the same way ... i mean, i have this insane idea of doing a massive crossover "music comic" to Emerson, Lake & Palmer's "Karn Evil 9 (First Impression Part Two)" as a powerpoint

yeah.. but I actually know how to work flash well enough to do it. hell. I'm making an intro to my comic book via "school homework" project in the tech lab.

Ahaugen · Post by **Ahaugen** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 3:39 pm

then you're the third option ... killing two birds with one stone

Spriteville, USA · Post by **Spriteville, USA** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 3:53 pm

I think the current site design is perfect. Flash has all sorts of things that would be annoying, like how it's flash and it'd have to load, and I dunno. Why have an intro, the current main page is fine.

Grey_the_angel · Post by **Grey_the_angel** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 4:06 pm

Spriteville, USA wrote:I think the current site design is perfect. Flash has all sorts of things that would be annoying, like how it's flash and it'd have to load, and I dunno. Why have an intro, the current main page is fine.

I dunno. I say retro 70's batman theme and have random pow art

comeon.... tell me that wouldn't be funny as all hell to come see.

ManyWorlds · Post by **ManyWorlds** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 4:09 pm

Ok, it wouldn't be funny.

There's also the factor that using Flash would turn away some prospective readers -- like people with dial-up or with computers that somehow don't support Flash.

Gengar003 · Post by **Gengar003** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 4:11 pm

ManyWorlds wrote:computers that somehow don't support Flash.

Those still exist?!

Ahaugen · Post by **Ahaugen** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 4:12 pm

just like AOL users

ManyWorlds · Post by **ManyWorlds** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 4:13 pm

Gengar003 wrote:
ManyWorlds wrote:computers that somehow don't support Flash.
Those still exist?!

I offer exhibit A: my parent's computer.
Dial-up connection, Windows 95 OS, and 1998 circuits.

Grey_the_angel · Post by **Grey_the_angel** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 4:17 pm

ManyWorlds wrote:
Gengar003 wrote:
ManyWorlds wrote:computers that somehow don't support Flash.
Those still exist?!
I offer exhibit A: my parent's computer.
Dial-up connection, Windows 95 OS, and 1998 circuits.

hence a skip intro button.

does no one else think about things as fully as I do. there's always a skip intro button somewhere.

Spriteville, USA · Post by **Spriteville, USA** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 4:19 pm

Umm... yeah we all have never before heard of a "skip" button in a flash animation before.

I don't like the idea, and if we wanted one we'd have one already when we recently redesigned the site.

Grey_the_angel · Post by **Grey_the_angel** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 4:24 pm

Spriteville, USA wrote:Umm... yeah we all have never before heard of a "skip" button in a flash animation before.

I don't like the idea, and if we wanted one we'd have one already when we recently redesigned the site.

it's not in the animation. it's in the html. it provides a direct link to the opening site.

plus: it could be in the animation. try some zipper fish animation: skipping downloading is an awesome thing they do for dsl and cable people, and their have been a ton of skip intro buttons. it cuts the animation costs by either sending them on the autodirect route anyway or by sending them to a specific scene.

so never hearing of an skip intro is more or less your fault.

Spriteville, USA · Post by **Spriteville, USA** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 4:29 pm

Dude, sarcasm. You can't exist on the internet without having seen an html link, or a in flash button that lets you skip an animation.

There's just no reason to have a flash animation open up our main page.

Grey_the_angel · Post by **Grey_the_angel** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 4:40 pm

Spriteville, USA wrote:Dude, sarcasm. You can't exist on the internet without having seen an html link, or a in flash button that lets you skip an animation.

There's just no reason to have a flash animation open up our main page.

I know. I'm just saying picture it in your head. never said I'd do it. o.O

BOMC · Post by **BOMC** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 4:45 pm

Personally, I tend to find flash intros to sites pretty annoying... In fact, I usually stop visiting those sites.

Gengar003 · Post by **Gengar003** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 6:56 pm

A flash intro for the sake of a flash intro is almost always a bad idea. Now, if your "flash intro" is the lead-in/preloader to a whole site done in flash, and it meshes well, then yeah, that can work.

For CG... make the animation, and post it for us forumites.

Grey_the_angel · Post by **Grey_the_angel** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 7:53 pm

Gengar003 wrote:A flash intro for the sake of a flash intro is almost always a bad idea. Now, if your "flash intro" is the lead-in/preloader to a whole site done in flash, and it meshes well, then yeah, that can work.

For CG... make the animation, and post it for us forumites.

lemme finish the one I'm working on. >.>

Dr Legostar · Post by **Dr Legostar** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 7:59 pm

cjburgandy wrote:
Subject line wrote:>.> <.< I'm either bored, or stupid.
I'm going to have to say the latter.

what she said.