Mindy McAdams takes a critical look at a multimedia Flash package by the Roanoke Times and comes away with four suggestions for those who are setting up these packages. #

“Jordan’s War photo gallery – a critique”:http://tojou.blogspot.com/2006/05/jordans-war-photo-gallery-critique.html #

The entire post is worth a read, as she unpacks these four lessons: #

# Decide whether thumbnails really fit with the content. If viewing stuff in order makes good sense, do not provide thumbnails.
# Handle package credits in a manner that makes them easy to open and close at any time, without any confusion.
# When links do not give the user a clear message about where they will lead, the user may end up in the wrong place.
# To avoid making the majority of users scroll up and down in what was designed to be a single-screen experience, limit the height of your SWF to 500 pixels. #

Update: McAdams has “a second part to the critique”:http://tojou.blogspot.com/2006/05/jordans-war-timeline-critique-2.html. #

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