[WEB4LIB] RE: My favourite (favorite) library home page

[Trupiano, Anna]

In my opionion

1)  BLINKING animation is the major problem (ie animation that 
	really is not smoothly done) --  just as a blinking light in 
	a dark room is a problem.  The human brain tries to 
	make sense of what is happening... and has problems
	with it.

2)  Dark backgrounds (especially black), brings out the blinking
	and the drastic change in intensity changes and coupled 
	with bright colors... does not help.

Therefore, I'd suggest light pastel backgrounds... not too busy!
Colors that do not draw attention away from the content.  And
lastly, if animation must be used... it must be SMOOTH... not 
flickering.  

You could tell that the person who designed those footprints... 
was trying to get across the screen in a certain number of frames.  
The low number of frames, meant a whole bunch of jumping in
the animation.  Extremely distracting!


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> From: 	Kyle Harriss[SMTP:kharriss at d.umn.edu]
> Reply To: 	kharriss at d.umn.edu
> Sent: 	Monday, March 15, 1999 9:15 AM
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> Subject: 	[WEB4LIB] RE: My favourite (favorite) library home page
> 
> Holly,
> 
> On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Holly Gordon wrote:
> > As a person who has had seizures brought on by computer monitors--
> > ..(remainder deleted)
> 
> I've heard of this happening. What factors contribute to this?
> 
> As someone who purchases equipment and sets it up in our
> Library for public use:
> 
>   All other factors being equal, are there some things we
>   could avoid that would minimize the problems that you
>   or other susceptible persins might have with the PCs in
>   our Library?
> 
>   Is it mostly video content?  Is it mostly the hardware 
>   refresh rate?
> 
> Thanks.
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