I just got the Flash Kit newsletter and was piqued by a description of this "Online Design System", so I checked it out. It seems like it would be a great tool, but all the sites that I looked at in the gallery were slow to load, clumsy, and not very usable. Slick-looking, but frustrating to use, even more so than the majority of Flash sites.

That includes the Balthaser site itself (http://www.balthaser.com/fx/builder/fx_boot.asp), where I couldn't read half the text because it was too dark. Or some of the gallery sites, where I clicked on links that took half a minute to actually connect to anything, and then only to another loading screen.

But that was just the promotional website. Has anyone used the actual Balthasar:FX tool? What do you think of it? Thumbs up? Thumbs down?

Laura Hamilton http://www.viviente.com

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