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Hints and tips on Designing for Web 2.0 Websites

Posted by Brusca under Adobe, Design, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash

A Web 2.0 site is supposed to charm its visitors with its simplicity and ease of use. So, if you’re designing a Web 2.0 site, remember it has to be very interactive and user friendly.

Read on at HubPages

Recent Projects

Posted by Brusca under Design, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, Photography, Tanzania, Video

Currently I am continuing to develop the Australia Zoo TV project. This is a very exciting project and has a lot of potential to do well and delivers some great video content, spreading the message of Conservation. www.australiazoo.tv. Developing the website, filming the Rescue Unit, editing and producing the episodes has been a huge challenge, but one I have fully enjoyed.

Carpet Python

Another recent project is for a very good cause. Humanidee (www.humanidee.org). I met Dee through the fodder of Twitter after my trip to Tanzania. Dee has set up Humanidee to help people in need all over the world. Currently Dee is in Tanzania volunteering and helping out The Tanzania Albino Centre in Arusha.

Humanidee.org

Australia Zoo Daily Video Diaries

Posted by Brusca under Adobe, Fireworks, Flash

www.australiazoo.com.au/our-animals/daily-video-diaries/

One of the more recent projects at Australia Zoo has been the inclusion of Daily Video Diaries.

On a daily basis a short 60 second video is displayed, explaining a fact or answering a question sent in by a fan or animal lover. Every single episode has the option to comment and is proving to be a good addition to the Australia Zoo website.

As we say at Australia Zoo, “Conservation through Exciting Education”. Not only can you get this at the Zoo 364 days of the year, you can also get it online.

The Daily Video Diaries are a small preview to the Chat to a Keeper section we do a on a monthly basis. The chats have more details and are generally around 10 minutes in length.

webdu 2008

Posted by Brusca under Adobe, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, Google

It’s been another whirlwind webdu. As per usual webdu gives anyone with a passion for this kind of work the added motivation to continue to grow and explore new realms as they arise with technology growth within the web world. Sometimes aspects of your work can be demotivating, thankfully there are exciting times ahead.

Flash CS4 has some very nice features. One of them being the use of inverse kinematics. You can now create bone structures to help animate characters from within flash and the bones can be accessed using actionscript.

An example can be seen here at The Flash Blog

New Dreamweaver and Fireworks CS4 beta versions are now available and we got a sneak peek of those at webdu 2008. Some very nice feature like webkit built directly into Dreamweaver.

Google Maps API for Flash. Google have finally released an API for Flash. Meaning we can stop using the Yahoo maps application on the Steve Irwin Day events page and use the much better mapping system from Google, that’s right Yahoo, there is a world outside of the United States.

All in all a good conference, and some very nice new features and toolsets to help us at Australia Zoo deliver RIA’s through the browser and on the desktop.

Now time to sleep!