Flashing, animation and such

[den]

I'll be working on expanding this little flash animation to show the whole operation of the vehicle wash, then working on the company homepage to clean up the code, reduce the data dump, remove old jpgs, dump the animated logo, and install the flash animation. I am seriously tempted to replace the cgi questionaire with a simple email link. You wouldn't believe how many business people mistake the questionaire for an email form.

I've also noticed a lot of queries from the USA start aout well, with discussions and phone calls, but always stop dead the moment you mention that the company is not in the US. One bloke wondered how we got onto the internet if we weren't in the US. Sheesh. Maybe I should put a huge Aussie Flag on the page.

Maybe they were looking for the other Fleetwash which is a US company. Gotta love those Pastel colours and red text on blue.

Soon I'll try animating the Kingfisher, learn TrueSpace, and amuse myself by reading my friends page through the shizzolator.

Got down to 0C last night. That's a 3 dog night but I only have 2 dogs.

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Joy to the world

[klishnor.livejournal.com]

"Jeremiah was a bullfrog.
He was a good friend of mine."
I only learnt the origin name of the group "Three Dog Night" a couple of years ago, until then I'd assumed it was an oblique reference to the groupies they'd attracted in their early days.
Still, onto the main topic. OK, use a flash animation, but remember that a lot of people don't have access to flash because:-
1)their browsers are out of date.
2)they keep flash turned off for "security reasons".
3)they're accessing via a WAP phone or something similar which doesn't have that facility.
4)they're using a computer which is not a PC or Mac and so their browsers are lagging behind in getting all the latest toys.
5)they are disabled users, possibly using a talking browser or similar.
Sorry to go on like this, but I've come across too many sites which are totally unusable unless you have all the latest versions of all the toys, something which goes against the ethos of the Web. I always write to the companies involved, pointing them to the relevant standards etc. Sometimes I even get a reply which isn't "Get the latest version of..."

Re: Joy to the world

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

The flash animation will be on a seperate page and linked to from the rest of the site. Everything else is written in old-fashioned HTML with tables. No java, mouse-overs, frames etc.

The target user for that page are mine operators, fleet owners and corporations. The assumption is that they have the not-quite-the-newest version of a browser. It should work with macs and PCs.

Re: Joy to the world

[klishnor.livejournal.com]

That's great.
Let me know when you get it up, I'll check it with my browser (I use RISC OS computers so they do tend to lag when it comes to toys, even if they are virtually unkillable in normal use) and let you know how it works.

Re: Joy to the world

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

I will! I'd like to know if the site is viewable through non-common browsers. I use Opera and tested it with IE6 and Netscape.

the next version will use frames, but nothing fancy.