here's something that pisses me off. if you ask a question, the logical thing that should follow is the answer to your question, right?
so, i'm taking this flash class, and my project is to create a virtual travel diary chronicling joel and my major league baseball park visits over the years. the main page is a map of the united states with baseballs marking where major league ballparks are located. when you roll over the ball, the name of the park, the city and team name are displayed. you click on a ball, and it goes to that park's page.
one of my buttons requires the use of dynamic text, and i can't get it to work right. the instructor comes over and asks me a bunch of questions, gives me a few suggestions to fix it (all of which didn't work), then launches into a tirade about how my site design is really confusing, and she has no idea how to navigate it. the home button in the nav bar is in the wrong place. and are you SURE that your target audience is going to know where thay should click to visit a certain page? um, yes, my target audience (mainly joel, my brother, & ali) know that clicking on a baseball located in the northern part of california marked "san francisco giants, pacific bell park" will bring them to the san francisco giants, pacific bell park page. it's not rocket science, lady. besides, it's not my fault you're not familiar with the geography of the united states (i'm guessing she's originally from an eastern european nation based on her accent).
the question was: how do i fix my dynamic text?
the answer i received: your site design is absolutely dismal, and i have no idea where cities are in the united states.
fuckin' stupid idiot flash teacher. what's wrong with the dynamic text? is it not tranforming on rollover?
does your teacher have a website? it sounds to me that she works in flash but isn't a designer.
Posted by: tim at November 21, 2003 08:13 AMthe dynamic text scrollbar isn't working. so when users see the text box, they don't know that there is more text below, nor can they click on the little scrollbar arrows to see if there is any.
she is a designer, i guess, but she thinks that the class is a design class, not a flash class. and so she ends up critiquing design more than she teaches flash. annoying woman.
Posted by: kathy at November 21, 2003 12:20 PMTell Mishka, or whatever her freakin name is, to put a cork in her vodka bottle. In America, we play BASEBALL, can we say baseball? NOT CHESS. Fucking Kasporov...you lost to a machine! Tell my wife how to make it go. Warp nine (hey Devon...). That's what we're paying for, right? GO YANKEES! LAKERS SUCK!
Posted by: Joel at November 23, 2003 09:36 PM