WEBEXPEDITION18 Never Stop The Exploring

As a designer or design firm, your website is not only a reflection of your style and taste, but also your capabilities. It is your business’ calling card, the first place where potential clients may see an example of your design aesthetic. Using a Flash website builder allows you to incorporate interactive elements into your web page, which will make your visitors’ experience much more dynamic, and help your site stand out from the crowd. The Flash website examples below will give you an idea of the system’s capabilities. They showcase great moving design elements that draw attention, create visual interest, and display design showmanship.

2Advanced Design Studios

Design and technology blend together in a futuristic world.

BLK + MTN

Shifting page elements and rollover effects bring dynamism to the designer’s site.

Branded 07

Designer Rob Palmer’s personal website features a homepage with an interactive stack of project cards. Flip back and forth to view images of recent projects, or jump to the tabs, which feature a ghost-like moving cursor. Palmer has added subtle touches of movement, like tiles that give more information when rolled over, pop-up dialog bubbles, and highlight and underlining effects.

Creaktif

An ever-changing and moveable website.

Digitalmash

It’s all about the rollover effects at the digital mash business website. Their initial web page design consists only of a colorful list of words. Move the mouse over a certain phrase and the rest of the words will fade to gray, allowing your chosen selection to stand out. The effect is dramatic and fun, yet also elegant and simple.

Doodle Buzz

A designer’s approach to the news: draw your own lines across the page, leading you to different headlines.

Eight Hour Day

Nice rollover effects and movement of page elements.

Gourami Design

Gourami has used a Flash website builder to create a cute and inventive design that looks visually distinct. A stack of three cards laid against wood flooring contains the main sections of their website. Click on one and it will flip over to reveal all the necessary information, taking center stage on the page. In the projects section, selecting a work causes a window to pop out so that visitors can take a closer look.

Infinity Art

An interactive design studio includes shows off their work by including moveable elements on their page.

Mon Carton

Using one of the simpler website Flash templates, Mon Carton has created a very accessible website that focuses immediately and exclusively on its projects. Visitors skim through a rotating digital portfolio of images, while little dialog boxes pop up with links to the projects’ external sites. It’s an effective and high impact technique.

Pascale Hares

This Flash website forgoes a web page background color and instead creates interest through moving graphics. A rollover effect blurs the main tabs when the mouse crosses them, project tiles spin around or are highlighted, and switching pages results in images zooming into or out of place.

Rzmota

Here, a Flash website builder has been used very creatively. The home page shot of the designer’s desk features a rollover effect that names each gadget on the desk. Click on the tabs and the information slides out from the bottom, filling only half of the screen. The projects section is particularly unique, with work displayed as though it were a spread out stack of magazines, with images moving to the sides to show your selection.

Sarah Ekstrom

Roll over the gray and white panels to bring color and life to the page.

Volkswagen UK

Car design gets interactive. At Volkswagen UK, you can configure your own car! Features great rollover and design effects.

Wing Cheng

Wing Cheng’s design website unfolds its information through pages of a book.