Interactive Flash Website
Student Example: Matthew Caldwell's Poster Website
Description: You have been hired to develop a Flash portfolio for a local photography company. The site will feature a photography gallery, buttons, a menu system, bitmap artwork, multiple scenes, and audio. Campus classes will also create an informational flyer which can be printed from the Flash site.
Instructions:
- The photographer has a few requirements for the program. First of all, the site must feature four different categories of photography he uses in his business (weddings, children, real estate, food photography, etc.). Each category must show four seperate images, for a total of sixteen images. (Students may invent categories.)
- Your project will contain a menu that will navigate users from one category to another category.
- You are encouraged to be creative! You could just slap the four photographs on the page, but you can probably find a more interesting way to view them. How about having the first one fade in and then fade out, to be replaced by the next? What about using buttons to move from one photo to the next? How about thumbnail displays that will enlarge themselves as you mouse over them?
- You may use any photos you have a legal right to use.
- Begin by creating your scenes and buttons. Next, move on to the menu system. Once you have the basic navigational framework in place you can work on the details. Don't leave the menus and buttons for the last, no matter how tempting.
Objectives:
Your assignment must include the following items:
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Objectives |
| Imported bitmap artwork | |
| Imported vector artwork | |
| Navigation menus | |
| Scenes | |
| Sound |