Throughout my adventures I’ve seen a few very nice Flash sites. One is a Flash conference here in Boston that I would like to go to this May. It’s also a beer festival http://www.flashontap.com Is the address for the website for the three day event. Speakers include Flash professionals from many different award winning companies, you have sessions and workshops. It’s pretty apparent how they did their Flash menu, just a mouse over enabled with the “mouseover” state being the active page. After you click, it plays another page. The really cool part is the first part of the page when it loads, the beer fills up. I’m not sure if this is a video that they recorded and implemented. It seems the first part of it is actually video, until the beer fills up, then it seems like they have it there as a still image and stole some of the bubbles from the video and put them as a motion tween/movie clip. Notice how perfect the bubbles are once the beer is full; it’s a steady stream that seems to repeat itself moving up and slowly from side to side.

A second site that I liked and found is www.iwantmyflashtv.com, a site that is purely a Flash generated animation television site. Sites like this and the other ones were no way in heck done by one person alone, but teams of coordinated designers, developers, project managers, etc. I like their button mouseovers on the lower part, like the GO button, reset/send, and Get MT! It is a great idea to fade in and out.

I found some other great sites from looking at these ones, like Flash On Tap, the developers. http://www.influxis.com/ is another great site, and uses a beautiful combination of HTML, CSS, and Flash. Great design job on this site, probably the best out of the bunch in my opinion. How they did the Flash is pretty straightforward on this one, with buttons, motion tweens, masks, etc. and some developer side coding with their customize your Flash server plan page.

Another REALLY COOL site is www.infrared5.com , if you go to the page, click the FLY ME button, you fold the paper and fly a plane through an office (crash to the ground if you want to go back to the site). Really neat motion tweens on the navigation from page to page. Also check out the blog link, you can write on their blog with a pen.

The amount that you can interact on these sites is amazing.