Soundtrack for the Intro Flash

This is the soundtrack that I did for the intro flash. It's the scene that the sheep FooFoo walking around his farm and feeling so good. The music is very funky, happy and funny. Moreover, it relates to the countryside atmosphere. Let's enjoy it!

Some hosting sites

We're gonna upload our website on the network, so I've checked some reliable hosting sites.

Free
Yahoo Geocities
Google Page Creator

Domain Names
Domain name registries around the world
Godaddy

Buying Space
Good Hosting Services
Media Temple

Good Web Resources
75 Helpful Web Design Resources

Spore website

Spore is a website of Will Wright, the creator of The Sims. It was created to promote an online game, in which there are several phases through the development of civilization and technology. There are also a series of characters, based on each period of phase. I think the idea is based on the development of human being, as you can see, each phase is designed according to a specific point of time in human history.

Some screenshots of creatures

First, what makes me impressed is an outstanding and funky piece of intro animation flash at the very beginning. The intro is short, but totally gives the audiences some ideas about the style and the characters throughout the game, as well as the missions for each phase. Secondly, we all can see there are blocks of text, therefore it must apply CSS style in Flash into their website. So instead of using Flash to contain the text, CSS style in Flash will help the later work and change much more easily. The site architecture is very plain. There are only 3 pages for the whole website, not including the external links. However, its purpose is to give the users some information about the game as well as the screenshots and stuff. So that's enough for it.

Some screenshots of The Space Phases

** Note: we'll consider whether we'll make use of CSS style in Flash to make it more easy to change.

Warren Holder personal website

This is very cool personal website using Flash. The background is totally white, the graphics is dark gray and the activated links are red. When first looking at this, you might feel bored because of the design and style. However, that's its extreme simplicity which makes it more special and never out-of-dated. His other artworks on this site are also very simple with plain shapes and a few colors. Everything seems to be there to connect with another and build up a harmony and beautiful style.

** You can visit it more: Warren Holder

Flash Preloader

Some coding for Flash Preloader:

A simple preloader:
Smart Webby

A preloader with feedback:
Best Flash V2.2

Advanced preloader in a separate movieclip:
Sitepoint

"Don't Click It" website

http://www.dontclick.it/

I've found this website and I think it's very cool and interesting. What I really like in this website is the smooth animation and the quick interaction. Besides that, it's also because we don't need to click to navigate, just move the mouse over the "buttons" or the navigation and things will happen normally. There are also the history of clicking and some experiments for users to check their "nature of clicking", as well as some online "training course" how to use moving mouse instead of clicking. Actually, I think that's a good thought of not overusing clicking. However, when navigating this website, I do "miss" the clicking a lot =.= moreover, since the interaction between users and the interface within the mouse-overs, it's impossible to do something else while waiting for something loading in this website. As whenever we move the mouse, the interaction has been changed into something else. Therefore, it's kind of disturbing and annoying for users to wait and just interact within this website once they've opened it.


* Note: first time I came to this site, I really like this and actually want our website to be something like this :p since our main navigation is not stationary, but moving all the time due to its specific page. Then I thought maybe mouse movement is more suitable and more interesting for users to interact with. However, due to the limited time, we should not do something like this, but concentrate on animation and design :p

Accessibility

I've found something about the accessibility. Here they are:

WAI Guidelines

Accessibility Wizard : Your Role

Web Accessibility in Mind: Videos

Watchfire: Accessibilty Testing