Full Flash-website Deconstruction #1 September 25, 2008

This is going to be the opening post on the phase2 of the award winning  http://www.kidthing.com website.   What's been learned along the way about adding: SEO, deeplinking, CMS, blog, and store,web services, Browser resizing, dealing with big files and big traffic days, CDN wrangling, shared libraries, Font sanity and clarity.  To a flash RIA website.  There are so much more to creating successful websites than just uploading webpages to the web!

 Why Flash?

The brilliant design and animator team team do really amazing work in Illustrator and AfterFx, both of which are a natural fit to take directly into Flash and result in smaller pages than slicing up images Photoshop. Some of the pages in phase 2 are 2-7Kb for the rich graphics.

Compared to conventional HTML we have much better control over preloading and transitions, the ability to do engaging interstitials while the pages load up behind, resulting in a better end user experience.  Compared to pure AJAX+DHTML there are less browser compatibility issues.

Stay tuned.