Bob,
The video has been pulled from the home page until it can be compressed
small enough to be seen..if that ever happens.
Meantime, here is the link to the site: www.leebowersproductions.com
This is a client-designed site, I did the build.
Lea
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Talbot" <BobTalbot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students"
<photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 12:38 AM
Subject: Re: question about video on a web site
>video myself but as this client has a past career in video work
there was no telling her to leave the video out...trust me,
here is, indeed, a skip button which takes the visitor straight into
the site.
Lea
There's a place for flash animations and video for sure ... but in two
places they don't work for me
1) At home on dial up:
2) Corporate environment where, for instance, our firewall blocks even
WAV files let alone MPEGS (and certainly will not allow ANY plugins to
download just to view some kewl animations)
Personally I find "opt-in" rather than "opt-out" a more user friendly
default for eye-candy frills :o)
The issue is not persuading you client not to use animations but, if
it matters to them, in keeping the site friendly to those who can't /
don't want to see them [unless of course video is the *whole* point of
the site].
When you said "10 sec to load" ... was that on broadband?
As a photographer can't you encourage the client to have some fast
loading stills as an opening - maybe to at least give the
customer/visitor something to look at while the animation was loading.
Another thought: Never seen it done but how about having short
animated gifs (covering the first few frames of the video) as
thumbnails to animated content? Pretty much all of us can see them.
A final thought: if it's a corporate site how do they intend to deal
with accessibility? Certainly in the EU you are obliged to consider
those things. For plain images it's easy ... you just populate the
alt tags ...
Bob
PS ... can you pass us the link when you have sorted it?
