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Old 05-20-2006, 04:32 PM
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Has anyone seen a web site like this before?

I thought it was the most original design I had ever seen...

(Not only did it really take me back but it also reminded me how quick and easy it was to use a key based menu compared to a mouse).
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Original but I hate it!

Love the Raconteurs though :)
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Original - yes, practical - no. Since the thing is done in Flash it initially takes long to load on a dial-up. Also not totally mouse independent. A similar look and functionality can be done using simple CSS and JS.
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Points taken.

I still love it, and would love to see the whole thing done properly in PHP / HTML / CSS and made totally mouse independent - but I am sure I am in a very tiny minority on this one...
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That website is so frustrating! Sorry, I don't like it either.
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Eek! Why do you love it?

It has a certain retro charm but is fantastically user-unfriendly. It seems that only commands you haven't already used will work. Every browser I tried had problems. What's the point?

I've seen some Flash sites that have amazed and fascinated me. I've seen others that just irritate me. This one both irritates and perplexes me because it doesn't work as I imagine it was intended to.

Very frustrating. Very cr*p!

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Top things I hate on websites:

music / sounds in background
resizing my window
links to pdf's unless absolutely necessary

Other than that I think it is moderately creative, but not very useable.

Anybody remember a site that showed off Flash, I think it was gabacorp or something like, that had a interactive timeline done in Flash? Very impressive.

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Gabocorp, I remember it well. No longer available by all accounts, seems to be password only now? I have a copy somewhere if anyone's interested.

One of his contemporaries The Void are still pumping it out with some innovative stuff and they have retained some of that original 'big' Flash feel.
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:-) I had a feeling I would be in a small minority!

Maybe it was mostly just nostalgia?
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