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iPod styled website
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Good idea!
But I would have done that in Flash, so you could make exactly the same menu transitions. Would look awsome!
But I would have done that in Flash, so you could make exactly the same menu transitions. Would look awsome!
Nice, but it feels a little plain - a bit too much blue. Maybe have an actual pic of an iPod on the page, surrounding the screen, so you feel like you're actually controlling the iPod.
If you're feeling adventurous you could do it in Flash and make the whole experience like you were actually scrolling through an iPod.
Edit: Beaten to it!
If you're feeling adventurous you could do it in Flash and make the whole experience like you were actually scrolling through an iPod.
Edit: Beaten to it!
Tiauguinho said:
I thought about it but it's alot easier maintenance if it's all kept in html (except for the flash mp3 player at the bottom)
munkle said:
I wanted to be influenced by the ipod not make a reproduction but i see what you mean about it being plain. I was trying to keep it as simple as possible not overly complecated visually. Originally I had the background a random ipod mini colour everytime the page was loaded but had to remove that when i added the flash mp3 player at the bottom.
Going to have a think about ways to spice it up visually.
I think it looks just fine. Nice and minimalist, the ipod theme comes across well. If it gets what you want done, why add fluff?TBR said:
I'm a bit of a sponge, tend to soak up the thoughts of others 
Although I was thinking about adding a picture of me leaning against the side of the bottom box in black and white, in U2 iPod vertigo video style. MMmmmmm quite like the idea of that.
Have to see...
Thanks all for the input
Although I was thinking about adding a picture of me leaning against the side of the bottom box in black and white, in U2 iPod vertigo video style. MMmmmmm quite like the idea of that.
Have to see...
Thanks all for the input
OK, my brain was broken this morning, didn't pick up on this... you can do this really easily in Javascript, no need to use Flash at all. Just set it to randomly pick an array number, corresponding to the Hex value of the colour you want. Then dump that into the CSS definition of Body Background colour.TBR said:
Note to self; drink more coffee
brap said:OK, my brain was broken this morning, didn't pick up on this... you can do this really easily in Javascript, no need to use Flash at all. Just set it to randomly pick an array number, corresponding to the Hex value of the colour you want. Then dump that into the CSS definition of Body Background colour.
Note to self; drink more coffee
Sorry I worded it wrong before, I originally used a javascript I came across to do this and it worked great, just like you say. But when I added the flash the background colour of the swf would be a different colour to the page backgroound and I don't know of a way to make the background in flash files transparent.
You might not need to make it transparent at all (it's been a long time since I used flash). There are ways to integrate JS and Flash using ActionScript to use the same Hex value to determine the background of the Flash movie. It's IIRC 'window.document.[flashmovie].setvariable(name, var)'. Sure someone else here remembers more than ITBR said:
brap said:
That link has done exactly what I want, now i need to find that Java script again
Thankyou