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We Heart Apple (for an open future?)
Spotted doing the rounds in some business newspapers the other day was a series of ads placed by software giant Adobe saying how much they love standards, but how they also believe that businesses should be free to compete on an open market. Whilst possibly targeting the wrong people with their ad placement, this was the latest round in an increasingly messy public argument to have come around in recent times between Adobe and Apple.
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Posted By: Terence
18 May 2010
New website design for Away with the Kids
Away with the kids website design
We have just completed a redesign of the Away with the Kids website. AWTK are an online travel directory for families and specialise in child friendly holidays. The first version of the website was a huge success in terms of consumer demand but the feedback on the design and brand was poor which lead to the redesign. Although AWTK had a very tight budget we were determined to create a website that positioned AWTK as a credible resource for parents and valuable directory for accommodation owners.
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Posted By: Mark
27 April 2010
Papervision 3D
Now I'm not usually a big fan of full flash websites. I find many of them to be clunky, unnecessarily complicated, bloated, slow and not particularly User or SEO friendly.
Although having said all that... Recently I have discovered some really great Flash websites which use a new piece of software called Papervision 3D. It is due to Papervision that I am now beginning to see modern flash websites in a new light.
Papervision is a completely FREE real-time 3D engine for Flash Action Script. It allows you to create and animate incredibly advanced 3D objects in virtual space, with stunning visual results. Better still Papervision doesn't require any additional plug-ins, so your not instantly met with an update/install download message when you first arrive on a site.
The main advantage of using Papervision has to be the excellent 3D visualisation of elements and the environments it creates. Unlike it's predecessors Papervision has QuadTree support which generates a real sense of depth and realism to the Flash animation as well as smoothing playback and improving load times.
In resent years full Flash websites seem to have suffered a decline in popularity, with the focus shifting away from fully animated sites back to more Business/user friendly html sites. Many design agencies have even stopped designing their own portfolio sites in Flash. But with the arrival of Papervision, Flash now looks to be making a comeback and appealing to designers once more.
From the Flash sites I have recently visited Papervision appears to be making designers think more creatively with Flash, pushing their imaginations away from predictable simplistic animation styles and making them think outside the two dimensional screen.
It just goes to show that with constant developments in software and technology, Flash still has a bright future ahead.
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Posted By: Dave
18 December 2009
Unorthodox website and branding
Ever wondered what would happen if you built a commercial website and brand that was not so politically correct, said what everyone was actually thinking and had no consideration for taste and style...
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Posted By: Mark
03 December 2009
Keep that website 'above the fold'
One of the commonly bandied about terms we hear from people when building websites is that they want all of their site to appear 'above the fold', something we try and accommodate where possible. This term, often thrown about in marketing circles, refers to what you see initially when opening a website, without using the scroll bars.
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Posted By: Terence
26 November 2009