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Originally posted by adpiasu
Theta Chi has a great site with flash for the ASU chapter, and I want to get flash in ours eventually.
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Just a general comment to webmasters about flash-- while it loads quickly on university machines, where you're more likely to have DSL or cable modem connections, remember that high school PNMs might still be using dialup! I'm still on a 56K modem, and it connects at 31K if I'm lucky!!! Flash is ssssllllllllooooooowwwww on my computer.
If you want to use flash, go ahead, but use it for an opening page. Please don't use it for the whole site, since people on slow connections will leave before it finishes loading. Also, include a "skip" link at the bottom of any flash page, because once you've seen it, you probably don't want to watch it again and again just to get to the calendar page (especially if you're a sister in that particular chapter who visits the site often).
I'm a big fan of small pages, because you can get to the info quickly!
Be creative, but do keep in mind that some people can only visit the slower, less-flashy, less photo-heavy sites.