Friday, March 10, 2006

Reading A Day Keeps The Doctor Away


TriWorks
Talk about awesome realistic 3D Design and with latest integration of the Flash player's capability, this site brings you depth in Flash site design. Although at many view that the 'Blur' effect might be underlooked or overused in the wrong way, it can really serve a lot of purpose in bringing the navigation message clearer. What's so unique? Look at the scalability of the site for different screen resolution, it's being properly utilized, and as well the motion of the navigation, the feedback that it gave to the user whenever you roll the mouse on any of the buttons. Lot's of little detail, but big impact. And you know what's going on

Flash Player for PSP
Good news and rejoice! Here's a portion of the article...
"...supports Flash 7 action script. Not everything mind you but a good portion of it..."
It's much more than you can celebrate :). For those who have no idea about what's going on that link, there has been a big debate and competition in hacking their PSP to run Flash inside of it. Homebrewed program of course.

http://bcdef.org/
A good resource centre to start with experimental Flash works. Remember all of the previous posts regarding application made with the integration with Flickr API? An interesting developmend you can follow for Flappr on this site.

Metah's Flash & Web Technology Blog
Another good resources centre to look into the technical aspect of Flash. You might even find neat tips on indexing your Flash site on major search engines. Might not sound too practical at times, but it's worth trying. And of course, besides looking at various Flash-tech related news, you'll find yourself enlightened by articles related web accesibility issues.


OkaySamurai
Remember the ever interesting storytelling-narrative Flash site?OkayDave.com? I can't stress enough if you haven't visit that site before, do it NOW! It's not only rich in the navigation experience, flow and hierarchy. But look, the content is so nicely blended with the design. Man, I can't seem to not love this site. OkaySamurai are actually a blog created by the designer to keep in touch with his family on his life's updates and works. But what attracts the attention and makes this blog is different is that the Flash header has been beautifully used to gel it's content and concept together. And yes, lots of interactivy to explore inside.


The Elements And Site
The Honda Element's site for the fellows in the States. Not sure if we'll able to see this car being imported to here. An intersting site to start with, which would entertain you for a short 'RPG' game. And this really draws a fine line between a very 'WOW' website and a 'oh...ok' effect type of site. The concept and direction are pretty interesting to start with, but it is really sad to see that the execution and outcome could have been better, and it might the deadline or other causes that stops them from doing better. It's really cool though. Try it. Nice. Of course, at certain time, you'll see that you never get the joke they trying to potray.


Mouse's Mouse?!
It's a bit off topic, but blame me for my reading sensation habit, i bound to found this courtesy of my friend reading it off some tech site. And passed me on this. I'd really wonder if we really could be productive with this. Who knows.

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