CD Templates

CD templates

Flash Preloader

A simple preloader:
Smart Webby

A preloader with feedback:
Best Flash V2.2

Advanced preloader in a separate movieclip:
Sitepoint

Modular Flash

Designing your Flash Web Site to be Modular

SEO for Flash

How to SEO Flash
Javascript Flash Player detection and embed script

CSS for Accessibility

This article discusses how to use CSS to create more accessible websites.

Advanced Accessibility Techniques

Accessibility

WAI Guidelines

Accessibility Wizard : Your Role

Web Accessibility in Mind: Videos

Watchfire: Accessibilty Testing

Narratives

Sites that explore and incorporate narratives:

Requiem for a Dream
Folksongs for the Five Points
What makes coffee good
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Online Flash Course

Phillip Allen, a professor at the Art Center, has compiled and online Flash Course that could be very useful to those who are new the software.

Interactive Scripting

Navigation

More information on different navigation methods and patterns:

A Study of Website Navigation
Tracking User Navigation
Common Navigation Points on a Page
Designing Interfaces

Down and Dirty : Photoshop template to HTML

Building a Website with Photoshop

Working with Flash

Kirupa.com : Creating Drop-Down Menus in Flash

Loading External Text

Loading External Images

Using CSS Styles in Flash



Flash Tutorial Sites

Gotoandlearn.com : Video Tutorials

FlashKit Dynamic Content Tutorial

Informit

Adobe

Ultra Shock

Donnie Darko

Another interesting website to explore, suggested by Linh
Donnie Darko

How to diagram a Sitemap and Directory Structure

Basic Structures
Site Diagrams

Metaphors & Themes

These are some of the websites that were referred to in class:

Amazon
J.K. Rowling's Website

CSS Zen Garden

Designs that I liked from Zen Garden:
Japanese Garden
Springtime
50's Diner
Postage Paid
Read all about it
Port of Call
Shaolin
Assasination

Image Resources

Here are the stock photo's websites
Stock Exchange: This site requires you to register in order to download raw pictures. Most of these images are copyright free, but a few have restrictions. Be sure to read what they are before using them.

Morgue File: This site does not require any registration. Some of the images in this database may have restrictions as well, so be sure to read the fine print.

Interactive Inspiration

What is a Print?
Don't click It
La Pâte à Son
Maeda Studio
The Work of Jonathan Harris
Afterlife
Metabolic Life
24-7 Media

Working in Teams

Articles to read about working on Teams:

The Nine Pillars of Successful Web Teams

Chapter 10: Selecting the Team in Managing Mulitmedia Book 1.

Reading 1, Week 1

In your "Managing Multimedia: Book 1" - Read pages 52 - 54 about online projects and pages 68 -74 for offline projects.

Welcome to Dim 3

Hello. I will be using this blog to post weekly articles for you to read.