Superb example of a well produced hybrid site. Some great techniques (such as the flash buttons with html drop downs) and some very good planning, check the code.
This is how flash and html should be used imho.
www.kbhomes.com
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Superb example of a well produced hybrid site. Some great techniques (such as the flash buttons with html drop downs) and some very good planning, check the code.
This is how flash and html should be used imho.
www.kbhomes.com
Ooohhhhhhh....I like.
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clean as usual, well done. the way it's cut seems kinda flashlevelish. maybe thats just the new thing though.
Very nice site. Flash to it's limits?
Didn't care too much for the busy homepage.
Smart site, but to not sound funny, but it's a very American cliche site. It wouldn't look the same had it been a UK agency who worked on it. But it is a very good looking site with a lot of hard work.
8 out of 10.
Yeah it is ... funny how I wanted certain features they did in flash here for the mortgage site I worked on ... but you know ...
I assume this is a 2A piece or did KB go with someone else on this one?
yeah i'm a fan of well done hybrid sites like this. it is busy, but when you have a lot of content sometimes there's not much else you can do. i wish i could do some of that flash/html integration. good stuff indeed. great attention to detail with all the animations.
Know of any other hybrid sites that come close?
I'm still rather new at this, but why would you want to have HTML drop downs when you could do the same with Flash? Is there some benefit of having HTML dropdowns as opposed to flash drop downs?
If you want html content underneath the flash buttons text/gifs/jpgs this is the only way to have dropdowns. you can't have flash dropdowns over html content.. unless you were using some dhtml layerering no?
Search Engine indexingQuote:
Originally posted by elbacttam
I'm still rather new at this, but why would you want to have HTML drop downs when you could do the same with Flash? Is there some benefit of having HTML dropdowns as opposed to flash drop downs?
There's also a question of load time ... but I've noticed lately that a lot of my flash inserts (ie. buttons, drop down menus, banners etc.) are loading quicker than the .jpg or .gifs
Hopefully, there will be an index feature in future flash release. Perhaps something where developers could input the text they want, this exported file is linked to the .swf file, the spiders would read that text file when it comes across any .swf
Perhaps that's too simplified, but that would cut down on the issue of search engine issues with .swf files
i think you can float an swf over html content in a different layer and set window mode to transparent windowless.Quote:
Originally posted by egush13
If you want html content underneath the flash buttons text/gifs/jpgs this is the only way to have dropdowns. you can't have flash dropdowns over html content.. unless you were using some dhtml layerering no?
Is there "layers" in dreamweaver?
Very killer site....
I love the combination of the HTML drops and the flash rollovers.....
Good stuff !
Insert/Layout Objects/LayerQuote:
Originally posted by N_R_D
Is there "layers" in dreamweaver?
very solid site. Im guessing the client was very happy with it? I would be
I know you can do this with some browsers but it's not, as far as the last information I read, reliable. Because of their media properties some browsers/versions will always show a flash item below a html layer.Quote:
Originally posted by j_hunter182
i think you can float an swf over html content in a different layer and set window mode to transparent windowless.
I'd be interested to know if there is now a way to do this cross browsers/platforms.
I guess that would also be the way that they have the content move and the BG not.Quote:
Originally posted by j_hunter182
Insert/Layout Objects/Layer
very solid site. Im guessing the client was very happy with it? I would be
Cool...gotta give that a try.
Schweet! Now that's some excellent html/flash intergration. Now this is some userbility/interactivity that i can Almost compare to the roadrunner site
Whoa! How did they get the videos show such High quality in the Testimonials?
http://www.kbhomes.com/en-us/Testimonials.aspx
http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/kn...fm?id=tn_14201
more info here.
for some reason in firefox the drop down menus aren't properly aligned, they're more than a colum to the right over, so the last one gets hidden by the map. Happen to anyone else??:confused:
I love the effect on the 3 main buttons on the homepage with the people - really get the message.
But I wonder why they kept the interior pages with html buttons rather than flash.
Overall design is really nice .
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Originally posted by Pixelranger
Search Engine indexing
Indexing even for the buttons?! How's that? Via filenames?
Search engines follow HTML links, they don't follow flash links.