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What do pregnant women, alternative medicine and candid views of vehicles have in common? They all fascinate Suzette Bross. Check out the unique collection of work on her brand new site.
Ahhhhh, bars.... the food, the drinks, the sports and friends. What's not to love? Speaking of bars, we just launched a site for the friendly folk over at the H|C.
Jon Greene took the design and development reins on Krantzworld. This site allows Jim to show off his editorial travel photography with a bit of flair and interactivity. Send one of your friends a postcard from the site!
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To Flash or Not To Flash Monday December 25, 2006
We love Flash (kinda). We hate Flash (kinda). The thing we really hate is the over-use of Flash. While we don’t get to produce many of them, our favorite type of website to produce is the Flash widget-style site. This site is the best example of that style that I can think of.
Most people, when using a website, enjoy having one particular feature or content item in a Flash interface that allows for the interaction that brings it to life. All of the other features? Users don’t like to see them in Flash.
One Feature is the average number of features on a site that users generally like to experience through Flash. One! So what does that mean about all of these site with everything or nothing within Flash?
The two extremes should find a happy medium. For all flash sites, it can be kind of hard to start changing things to HTML. The sites with nothing yet in Flash formats have it up on the all-Flash sites. The easiest towards Flash “widgetization” is from all-HTML.
For an all-Flash site, try to find the one item or link that is more functional than exploratory, then extract it and make that page HTML. Subzerowine’s Request Literature page has gotten the closest to doing that of any initally all-Flash site that we have worked on.
Our site is an example of HTML that will soon be transitioning to flash widgets. Just watch the main menu at the top of the page and the work page.
I have been trying to figure out what sites need flash widgets and what kind they need. What flash widget would be most beneficial on craigslist.org? What flash widget would work best on the cakephp.org website? What flash widget would work well on your website?
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