Comments on: 10 Flash Design and Development Tips Part 1

By: Patrick Burt

Patrick Burt — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:22:53 +0000

Thanks guys.

@Matthew, I’ll do some research. As for the library, good call.
@Joanne, thanks I’ll include that in the newest version.
@Patrick, cheers

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 15:02:49 +0000

Good post Patrick. I’ve also heard that 31 fps is the optimal choice.

By: Joanne

Joanne — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:52:59 +0000

One other point to make. Don’t use Flash for the sake of using it. If the site is better suited with html. Use html! Know the audience and the plugins they have. Many people or businesses don’t have flash installed. You can always make a sexy site with css that’s accessible.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 01:48:56 +0000

Actually be wary of point 2. The graphic object does have one advantage as, in the IDE, it reflects the timelines of children clips, whereas movieclips only show the first frame. Very useful when developing complicated animations.

Can always change them to MovieClips later though

Also on pint 6. Dont add a suffix in the library, do it when you instantiate them. doing it in the library itself just clutters the library, and you can ways sort by type anyway.

By: Patrick Burt

Patrick Burt — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:49:50 +0000

Thanks for the comment m8! BTW, nice portfolio site.

By: Scottsdale Web Design

Scottsdale Web Design — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:54:21 +0000

number 10 is a HUGE one. Repeat visitors don’t want to sit there for two minutes to watch your flash movie every time, and a lot of first time visitors don’t as well. If you are going to have a flash intro movie, ALWAYS have a bypass link. I strongly recommend not having audio auto start w/o the user clicking on something, that will get more visitors mad at you then you would probably expect. Thanks for the post, great tips.