Website Planning Fail

Unfortunately, we see things like this pretty often. I suppose the person who "planned" the site didn't really know why he had a pointless site map page. He just thought it was something that was supposed to be on a website.

Don't jump to any assumptions when picking your pages. You might need some of the conventional pages (home / about / services / contact) but try to personalize them and be intentional about how you organize information.

Need some ideas for your flash websites?

Monter templates has a great database of flash and html templates. So if your struggling with any good ideas, take a visit to their website.

http://www.monstertemplates.com/

Website Ideas

I've been thinking about what to do for my website, so I Google searched and found some sites that gave ideas for what to make websites about. One of them was a movie review website, which I think would be a lot of fun. I absolutely love watching movies, however my opinions would not be very critical because I usually love most of what I see.
Another idea was a bucket list website, where I would make a list of everything I want to do before I "kick the bucket".

I'm leaning more towards the movie review website because I think I could make more pages out of it and it could be something I could continue with.

But one more idea was one that would consist of a quiz about which of the "Five Elements" you are. It's based on a Chinese "science" and you take a personality quiz and it tells you whether you are a fire, water, earth, metal, or air element. That one would also be pretty cool.

Any favorites from anyone else?

Laptop of the 'future'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H0K1k54t6A

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Add, Delete, Rename, & Reorder Scenes

Want to add, delete, rename, or reorder your scenes? Simply press Shift + F2 to open the scene editing window.

Scene Navigation

I know many of you guys are using scenes this time when creating your e-cards. After spending some time watching Lynda tutorials and then using the Adobe website I was able to create a code that you can use to navigate to the next scene in your animations.

It's a simple process and I'll try my best to make it clear. If you need help, feel free to email me (bhbiros@gmail.com) or I can help you in class.

Scene 1:
1.) In scene 1 create a button and give it an instance name of "nextBtn."



2.) Create an actions layer and in that layer put a blank keyframe at the end of your timeline.



3.) Then copy an paste the following actionscript into the blank keyframe you created:

stop();

nextBtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, newScene);

function newScene(event:MouseEvent):void
{
gotoAndPlay("intro", "Scene 2");
}

4.) Finally, go to Scene 2 and create a new layer with 1 blank keyframe at the very beginning of your timeline. Under properties, label this layer "intro." You must do this because in the code a function was create that tells Flash to go to Scene 2 and begin play at "intro." If you do not label a place in Scene 2 for Flash to begin playing, it will not know where to start playing (causing an error).



*This process is then repeated for the all your scenes. HOWEVER, you must give each button you create a different name (i.e. next2Btn, next3Btn, next4Btn) AND you must create a new function name (i.e. newScene2, newScene3, newScene4). FINALLY you must also change the name for the beginning keyframe in each scene (i.e. intro2, intro3, intro4). If you fail to do so, you will receive errors for having duplicate names.

Your code for Scene 2 to jump to Scene 3 should look like this:

stop();

next2Btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, newScene2);

function newScene2(event:MouseEvent):void
{
gotoAndPlay("intro2", "Scene 3");
}

Hope this helps. It sounds more confusing that it really is. Hopefully I made the process clear.