Anybody else find the animations on the main page annoying ?
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[Anybody else find the animations on the main page annoying] It's probably just me... 
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My links to the forums, so I never stop on the main page, but had a look just now. They are pretty average looking animations, and very short.
just a quick look at some possibilities. I glaze them over pretty much. Rarely look at them.
It's not just you, I find them very annoying, at least as annoying as website videos that play without my say-so except even bigger and more in your face. It feels gimmicky, and they're particularly annoying because they're very short cuts, which annoys everyone except terrible movie directors. It also says the opposite of what they think. If you have to cut the animations your software can create this short and jump around from one to the next, it's probably because your software isn't actually very good at animation.
lots of things annoy me but this is not one
I would love to have the option to get past this stuff without having to waste another click. So yeah, I do...
The only thing that annoys me is that they imply Daz Studio is a capable animation package.
Notice how they don't show any characters walking.
https://www.daz3d.com/shop/
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/
You are welcome.
just make the shopping page as a tab ...click that and there you are...or forums as its own tab ... viola
I agree that the amnimations are a PITA. That's why I have bookmarked the shop, forum and gallery.
There's a main page?
Ahh, no. There is a pain page
I remember a Marketing class or something where we looked at web sites from different countries... because everyone's web etiquette is very different.
American websites definitely were not the "loudest". Other cultures have more tolerance for FLASHING ANIMATED TEXT and strange highlights over everything. Sure, there are annoying American advertisements, and things like POPOVER WINDOWS are a cancer, but I've seen worse than what Daz does for sure.
I've never seen these animations. When I come into the DAZ website, it goes straight to the store.
I was sort of hoping that the browsers on my various metered connections were re-loading the animations from local cache.
On some pages I've made where the lead image is an animated GIF, the animated file seems to load (and play) only once, and from then on Firefox ignores it... or at least only the first frame is displayed in subsequent re-connections.
I like the idea of bookmarking ".../shop" and ".../forums". Good one.
I never knew of them until this thread as I haven't visited the main page in probably a year.
are too short IMO, gifs would be better as loop, videos should only play as scrolled to like facebook ones do
Yes. Then again, I find the whole store design to be pretty awful and overly focused on getting additional clicks rather than actually making the gathering of information easier.
Ouch.
I usually browse the store on my iPad... what animations are we talking about? The only thing I see animated is the window on the top, far left that usually features sales... that keeps switching from sale to sale or offer to offer... otherwise everything seems static.
I'd prefer it not changing on its own, but I'm not overly annoyed by that.
Not animations on the Store page, but on the primary Daz3D.com site, which some people use as the jumping off point. My bookmark just goes directly to the Store page, and my Forum bookmark actually goes here to the Commons subforum since that is pretty much the only section I read.
Edit: BTW, that top-left pane on the Store page with the revolving sales? You can stop it from changing just by putting your cursor on it. Don't have to click or anything, just hovering over the pane makes it stop. Works on some other sites too.