Re: Design whole (small) website with Pro in Flash?
Egg: Sorry for late answering...
I'm not againt Flash at all! I make banners, menues, intros, commercials, games - and even whole sites with flash.
BUT: A lot of flash-sites you see (I think the most of them) use flash only for flying aroung pictures, text and other stuff. Or for embedding sound and videos like hell. Fine. They might look great. Artistically. But when you put information to the web the question ist: what do you do this for?
If you make a site for personal use only (i.e. hobbies, sports etc.) this might be alright (though even there the result should show you and your informations in best way). But if you make sites for professional use you get more problems than bonus, because:
- you need the actual flash-player to watch the site
- loading might take long if you have much graphics or sound within
- search engines still have a problem with flashy sites
- people with disabilities have BIG problems viewing the pages
- alternative technics (readers, only-text-modes, palm, cellular phones...) don't see them
- ......
As most of the graphical stuff you can do with CSS as well the specialty of flash is imo bringing interactivity and specialty to the sites. And then you need actionscript. Any real game, any dynamic input, any evaluation of inpus or special kinematic or graphical effects: actionscript.
So. I don't want to talk things bad (like the build in flash-output in Xara) but for me it's one more flash-generator for the easy things. I propose making a site with HTML/CSS, embedding some flash highlights if you want and do your site for ALL people.
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Re: Design whole (small) website with Pro in Flash?
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Originally Posted by
Egg Bramhill
Yes it can and don't believe all the the html crusaders. :rolleyes:
Egg
What a pity, Egg. I can't read your flash image. Therefore it is of no use to me.
Tony
Re: Design whole (small) website with Pro in Flash?
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Originally Posted by
tonylondon
What a pity, Egg. I can't read your flash image. Therefore it is of no use to me.
Tony
I guess you don't fit the progressive demographic, Tony... ;-)
It just seems pointless to go on about Flash being so evil - as with any technology there are pros and cons, just as there is with html and css.
What makes an impressive site for one person is uninteresting to another no matter what technology you use.
Paul
Re: Design whole (small) website with Pro in Flash?
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Originally Posted by
pauland
I guess you don't fit the progressive demographic, Tony... ;-)
It just seems pointless to go on about Flash being so evil - as with any technology there are pros and cons, just as there is with html and css.
What makes an impressive site for one person is uninteresting to another no matter what technology you use.
Paul
I guess it depends on whether you visit a site to be informed or entertained. Personally I like to get on, get info and get off. I recognise that others expect more than I do from a site....
Re: Design whole (small) website with Pro in Flash?
Remi: "But I would recommend to change the layout of your navigation: Don't use rectangles around the menu entries to avoid the button-look. Perhaps more something like that"
You have a nice layout there with some graduated transparencies, and the non-buttoned menu items... Looks great. But I thought swf export did not support anything but flat transparencies? Wouldn't your creation be cut down to size by the XXP SWF export process?
edit: hmmm, it seems the grad trans is not supported on bitmaps, bit is supported on vector items, is that correct?
