The Flash Website was a lot of fun and a lot of work. I think working in Flash makes a lot more sense then HTML and I was able to figure things out a lot quicker then I could with HTML. Getting started with the project was tough. Again I am indecisive so it took me awhile to come up with an idea that I wanted to do the website for. I decided doing a website on bubble gum would be a lot of fun, so I went with that.
My initial idea was to stylize the website after a bubble gum package. Which was easy enough to do for the home page and maybe one other page, but it was difficult coming up with different angles of a gum package that I could tie together to make it all work. Let alone making it look like it all goes together. I played around with the idea though trying different things.
After going to the first critique I wanted to try to play off the stickiness of bubble gum. Doing a page that would maybe have bubbles popping from page to page. Using a popped bubble to cover the entire page. I tried doing this in flash. I got the animation to work, but then I got stuck trying to get the content and layout to go along with the popped bubble. I wasn't sure how to lay everything out. I tried out different options, but in the end I thought I shouldn't worry about the animation for the site as much as I should making sure the site was well designed.
So I went back to the drawing board. I completely switched everything: colors, style, and layout. I think it was a good decision. I am pretty satisfied with how it all came together. It doesn't have much animation to it, but I think it does have a nice design. So I consider it a success. I could go back and add more animation, maybe some audio with the gum ball machine. Other then that no real complaints with how it turned out.
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