For Those With a Flash Plugin

Please don't make videos with sound autoplay. That's all I have for you. Hope it helps.

:curse: it makes sounds :mad: you is firmly in the dog house you and your moving picture box

I'm right there with you, but they wanted their 15 second commercial to autoplay... I try to tell my clients everything I can before they decide... unfortunately, in the end, they are paying my bills.

Starve, after a while the pain goes away and you do get to gain the moral high ground just not for long

on a brighter note, i'm not retarded and it does work, people just don't know how to maintain their updates.

You are welcome to delete the link so that no one else will have to put up with the wrath of "moving picture box" with all the "sound"

Thanks for being my guinea pigs

lab rats

just a shame I was on a secondary box with speakers built into the monitor, couldn't remember where the volume control was so had to kick the s*** out of the monitor to shut it up

Yes, my last client insisted on a splash page. I tried to refuse but they were having none of it. :curse:

They do realise what people do when an ad comes on TV that they don't like, don't they? They change channels. Same thing on the Internet - you put an ad on your home page that people don't want to see and they'll go elsewhere straight away and not even see the rest of the site. Fair enough that they want to display their ad (which incidentally is cheesy as) but they really need to consider the implications of a) having it on their home page and b) making it auto play.

All which I tried to explain to them.

Give them their splash page and move on.

You get paid, they get what they wanted, visitors will never visit their site and they'll realise you were right.

You win, they lose

The flash worked fine for me (FF2 on WinXP).

I keep my speakers turned off, as a rule, so no trouble this time.

Works fine by me.

I have some rather intrusive questions, but I hope you won't mind.

Do you bill by the hour or by the project?
How much are they paying you?
How many other clients do you have?
How much advertising do you do?
Why would you buy a new house with clients that are this finnicky?

I've got comments locked and loaded for each response!

Seriously though, I understand your frustration. I'm going to start a new off-topic thread and maybe a new site to cover how to convince your clients that their vision of their website is wrong.

LokiLoks

Or they think that because you built the site, it must be your fault that it's not working as intended. Even with access to site stats to show the index page as the highest exit page, it'd be hard to prove quantifiably that it's because of the ad.

Because maybe he didn't know they were going to be this insistent on the ad at the start. The ad may not even have been part of the original spec. It's all very well to judge a client or project in hindsight, but you can't always know at the point at which you decide to get involved.

Depends. If I am doing work for the advertising company i work for, they charge by the project. If I am doing freelance, I charge by the hour with an upfront proposal on hours it will take.

They are paying me whatever I propose to them and they accept. I always have a contract written and signed before I do anything.

With the advertising company we have currently about 25 clients, but we have only been in business for a year and a half.

I buy a new house because I get a salary and monthly bonuses and I don't want to live in a dumpster.

Hope this helps.

I keep my speakers turned off, as a rule, so no trouble this time.

Thanks!

I have "If you can see this text, you will need to upgrade your Flash plugin." on my screen. At the same time, the page does not degrade very well: navigation menu extends too far to the bottom.

Do you have a recent flash plugin installed?
in what reference are you using "degrade". Are you speaking of seeing the site with no style sheet or looking at the site in an older browser?