Chief Delphi - NYC Web Contest Problems & A Letter to FIRST...

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Originally posted by Aaron Knight
[b]Here's my comments on the entirety (sp?) of the Web Site Design award.

FLASH. For the most part, this is another waste of time and bandwidth. For its credit, there are team pages out there that use it effectively, and it can be used effectively. However, when all it serves to do is create an annoying and slow-loading intro or something like that.....all it is is flashy crap, not real content. The focus of this award should be perhaps content and effectiveness....something almost entirely antithetical to Flash use.

And, of course, remember that the average American attention span is very short....for those of us still on dialup or with slow computers, an alternative web page is just a click away........

I agree on what you said about the Flash should be used in an effective manner. I dont agree with the idea that you have something against websites that do have Flash intros.

Content isn't everything! Maybe some people LIKE browsing through the website to check out what some of the designers have as far as talent goes.

Maybe you have been turned off of Flash intros because of your dial-up, but then I find it hard to understand because I too am on dial-up and I find that intro's aren't that bad at loading.

I keep this stance because the site (http://www.stmichaelscollege.ca/robotics/) I won the Canadian Regional with has an intro that I spent a few days on. Many people thought that the intro was a fantastic part to explain what our team was about in a quick 15 second clip. For those people who are planning to learn how to make websites for next year I say USE Flash intros. It makes browsing through the long list of websites more interesting (and if they take longer I can just use the T3 connection at school :-p).