User Stats for Age Groups
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- CyBrainX0
My suggestions are similar to what's been said before.
Get some old people to be your informal focus group. Tell them to use the site at different points of development and record their mistakes, questions, doubts, even hesitations.
Jakob Nielson is an ass, but some of his criticisms of most Flash sites are to be taken as a challenge. Make use of different button images for visited links, use back buttons, don't have many levels of architecture, make your animation work, and if you have music/audio, for God's sake put an Off button there, probably a volume control also.
Make Flash work for the user too. Have things stream and give them things to do or read as your video loads. This way, you make one version of your site and not two.
Go with the MX site and forget html/Quicktime. Many more people have the newest Flash plug-in than Quicktime. That way, you are taking advantage of the best tool the web has to offer.
Make your type nice and big and consider having an enlarge button when possible.