Slide show usability--what works?
I just started building slide shows, and realized I have seen virtually nothing about them usability-wise.
What makes a good slide show? What makes them stink? What makes for good/poor navigation & page structure? Fast/slow load times?
Is it more useful to have spiders index only the intro page or first slide (so search engines display that) or the whole sequence (so searchers find the most relevant slide)?
What about indexing slides, or not, in a site's Search feature?
What other usability issues have I not even thought of?
Wilma posted this at 06:11 — 14th April 2003.
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If you know any particularly good, bad, or heavily trafficked slide shows, please post the URL so I can check them out.
I just posted slide shows -A- and -B-. They're optimized for overseas visitors on older machines & brrowsers with slow dial-up connections. Comments?
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