To generate ideas for my final website I found a few sites designed with Flash that I admire and will attempt to emulate..if it is possible!
Site #1 : NewYorkRestorationProject NYRP.org
What I like- I am in love with the navigation on the homepage, the way the trees or flowers glide up as the list of items glide down, it doesn’t feel overdone and it doesn’t mess with the usability at all. I like the circle side nav also, how the info slides out to the left and the image slightly dims. It may move a little too fast though.
What I don’t like- I don’t like that the drop down menus with flowers continue onto the subpages, I think it’s a little too much. Maybe if the flowers didn’t show up or if the motion was a little smoother it wouldn’t hurt my eyes so much.
Well, I basically don’t know how they did any of this at all, I am sure I can handle creating the graphics and creating the motions but I have not a clue of how those elements can be put together to make a website.
Site #2 a foreign portfolio site Appear.dk
What I like- I like the sliding effect to look across the page at their different work, and how it will brighten if you are hovering, I think I could interpret this for the Recipient Profiles on my website.
Don’t like- I don’t really like their typography, I don’t know why I just don’t like the font that much, it’s simple but I don’t feel like it matches or is very easy to read for the web.
I still don’t know anything about making a Flash website.
Site # 3 FandangoFilm.dk
What I like- I like the overall simplicity, how there is this empty room with the company’s name on a neon sign and the navigation makes a transparent screen fall down and then the information comes in kind of PowerPoint style.
Don’t like- that the navigation is tiny and hidden in the bottom right corner of the page. I think that there could be some interactive motion within the room, I immediately explored it with the mouse but was a little upset when nothing moved or happened. It’s pretty bare bones, but it’s also pretty.
This seems like it would be simpler to copy off of but with a twist, and I still have no idea how I’d go about it. But I know I could create a short animation in Flash of a transparent box falling.
