How to Create a Flashy Interactive Website

A flashy interactive website can wow visitors or turn them off with too many bells and whistles. To optimize a flashy interactive website, compile a design plan and determine what you hope to achieve with the site, then create the design elements that best serve your goals.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderate

1. Construct a homepage with crisp photos and flashy startup music. Create boxes with links and information that zoom into place as soon as the page loads.
2. Create interactive website menus. Use a sliding or scrolling DHTML (Dynamic Hyper Text Markup Language) menus to direct users to various web pages in a flashy but fun manner. Design a top or side menu with custom arrows, borders and text.
3. Learn Flash effects and use them to amplify the interactive experience. Create a fade-in, fade-out animation effect in Adobe Flash with Flash MX. Find the pictures you want in the flash animation and put them in the Flash program library. Then use "convert to symbol" and "create motion tween," and create a movie clips for each image in the slideshow.
4. Design a virtual tour. Provide web surfers with a guided tour of your house, widget factory or recording studio. Create a photo tour using Flash, and edit it together. A user then tours virtual rooms or other images by directing their cursor on the screen.
5. Simplify the user experience. When designing links to pages within the interactive website, employ clickable objects or photos that the web surfer can quickly identify as links.