www.FlexPress.net

[hongjun]

The site is so so, but If you live in Leicester, come to our company to have a cup of coffee. http://www.flexpress.net

Hongjun
Web Designer

[hongjun]

Anyone use affiliate program to get large web design clients? :cool:

[escuba]

do you give discount to fellow forum users? hahaha :D

how did you do the animation too???

[Craig]

Yeah, that flash animation is very good.. I would love to know how you did it (what you used)

Or if you bought it.. where from!

Craig

[hongjun]

First Step:

I modelled the 3 scrollers in 3D studio Max, and took a photo for my colleague.

Second Step:

Map my colleague's photo on a piece of 2D paper, and inserted it in the animated scrollers, test if it is working fine. export it to an avi movie to test the animation, actually the simple animation is just 2MB. If you are familiar with 3D MAX, you can choose the pre-installed skin in the software to reduce extra file size. if you want to put it in flash, you must make sure the animation is no more than 2MB.

the third step:

export the animation to 30 JPG files, how? if it is 150 keyframe animation in 3D MAX? it is simple, just export 1 Jpg per 5 keyframe to reduce animation to 30 Jpg files.

the fourth step:

change the jpg file name to 1, 2, 3......, because when I export 1 jpg per five keyframe from 3D Max, all files' name have been automatically generated to 0001, 0005, 0010...... . I changed the files' name is to put them in Flash easily. Flash can auto import all 30 jpg files once.

The fifth step:

well, if the animation is in flash, you will know what the next step is.

[maxray]

What did you use for your expandable menus? xml, dhtml?? they work really nicely.

[hongjun]

to be honest, the tree menu script was created by the other clever guy, I just changed text to match my site. He use layer navigation, so when you run it, the current page will not be refreshed. Most of other tree navigation scripts will refresh the current page.

[maxray]

aha cunning.. im thinking that similar to the one featured on webmonkey.com?? . I think its really good to use user interfaces that mimic somthjing they are already familier with. i.e. Windows based operating system.. good work mate ;)

[hongjun]

I don't think you have ever been to hotscripts.com , the website provides more scripts than webmonkey does.

i don't like to use too many scripts, cause clients want to see my contents not some "cool" effect. I use the menu bar is because it is match the site, and it is a printing shop, isn't it? the site looks like a book, because we print books everday, look at the scrollers' animation, it is just for our printing shop.

Hi, man, I also visited your website, you are very clever and creative. I will build a freelance site very soon, and maybe email you for some comments.

[maxray]

cool no problem and thanks for your kind remarks. Ive visited hotscripts before yes.. i just referenced webmonkey as its used the expandable menus for quite a while.

I agree entirely about content over eye candy or whizz bang effects, and yeah your site gets everything over really well ! :D

let us know when you have your freelance site up :cool:

cheers mate

Sush