OT: Web Site testers wanted

Sean,
Re. Flash Slide shows. Are you experimenting at the moment because I am seeing problems that were not there when I first looked?

Main one is with the opening version; Starts O.K. with about 3 sec transition and 4 sec hold but then misses images (although the numbers change) and jumps at changes.

Kimberley & Mathew and also Chris & Jennifer; I am seeing different lengths of transition and hold. Some quite long holds on some pictures, 15 secs. and short transistions <2 secs. through the show. Not a consistant change.

Irish Travellers & Subway; These seem O.K. and about right to me. I am seeing a transition of 3 secs. and a hold of 4 secs.

I think for my taste ( and knowing that if you want, you can go through manually at your own speed - Slideshow off) a three second transistion and a 5 second hold would be ideal. Hope this is of some help.
 
Hi Jim,

I did make some changes to the slideshow intervals yesterday but I just tested the site and it's working properly (on my Windows 2000 system). Sometimes, if your IP bandwidth drops, there isn't enough bandwidth to keep the pictures rolling in at their scheduled speeds. The way I always test this is to allow a given slide show to run though all the way (which writes it to my temporary Internet files folder, of course) and then run it again when the computer is reading from that cache and not relying on the IP bandwidth for speed. If the timing is dead on the second time then the site code is OK. Here's how the slideshows are set now (which, interestingly enough, is very close to your suggested speeds):

~ 5 seconds total hold, fades lasting ~ 2 secs.

Over the next few days my developer is going to be working on resolving some of the Macintosh issues and finding a fix for the "back button lock in" issue.

Thank you Jim and everyone who's contributed help to this,

Sean
 
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Sean,
I looked again and the only one giving any variations in timing or problems this time was the intro. Again missing images and jumps. Running through more than once as you described did not solve it. I tried an F5 refresh a few times and this did not work. I then deleted my Temporary Internet Files forcing the site to reload (about 2 seconds) and it then worked fine. I guess the cache was corrupted the first time it loaded this morning. (I have Pages History set to Zero).
 
Jim,

Thanks for the update. Since the problem wasn't specific to the web site, it gives me one less thing to worry about today. <G>

Sean
 
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