"Brian" wrote in message
Andy Ronmalon wrote:
"JPHoto" wrote in message
Hallo,
I have redesigned my photo-website.
http://home.hccnet.nl/jp.hofstee
Thanks you for visit my photosite.
JPhoto.
Your site is very harsh on the eyes, and the interactive elements don’t feel fluid. In this day and age when 85% of computer users have the Flash plugin, that is mostly likely the way you want to go, especially in the photography market. here are some decent examples of some good flash photog sites:
http://www.nitinvadukul.com/main.html
http://www.douglasfisher.co.uk/
http://www.sebjaniak.com/
http://www.manipulator.com/
Though I’m not really thrilled with those sites, they are good quality. Your design could be punched up a bit, lose the harsh McDonalds colors, and could be easily reproduced in Flash for a much better effect. And don’t let anyone fool you – flash is easy! The above sites employ beginner techniques. It is available for a free 30 day trial from macromedia if you are so inclined.
Yes, Flash is very easy to both animate and programme. Beginner techniques is a little bit of an exaggeration, however. Maybe you could share ‘your’ site with us then, Andy, to demonstrate some slightly more advanced techniques?
When I say beginner, I mean to say that these sites would be in the 1 – 2 month range of the learning curve. The majority of Flash sites I’ve seen employ mouseover movie clips and not much else. Let me dissect one of these sites to elucidate. The first link (
http://www.nitinvadukul.com/main.html) goes to an ENTER HERE page that for some reason is done in Flash. Usually someone uses a page like this in HTML to give the 56K user a less bandwidth intensive option or for those who don’t have the flash plugin. Don’t understand why he chooses to use Flash here.
The next page (main page) is a simple interface with a movie clip of cycling pictures, a simple scrolling movie clip with mask, and then four navigation buttons and a sound on/off button. The navigation buttons are simple (on click, tell the picture movie to go to frame x, tell the thumbnail movie to start). Movie clip manipulation is a lesson dealt with early in the Flash tutorial.
I chose to dissect this site because it is similar to what JPhoto would do with his design if he ever migrated to Flash. The most "advanced" part of this entire design is the scrolling news bar on the first page, and you could easily find a similar source at flashkit.com.
And in response to your challenge, I will indeed toss my flash site, when completed, to the mercy of this NG. I do it with most of my projects. But I will preempt by saying that it is going to be just as simple as these other ones. I have no need to employ advanced techniques and neither does JPhoto.