Noisecontrollers New Website

http://www.noisecontrollers.nl/

Their sites been offline for a while and was in need of a makeover, it's come back online now and although they only have the front page up it looks better all ready, done in Flash and was made by Coen van Hal, will put more up when the site is fully running.

Football Agent Flash Game.

Football Agent.





Football Agent is a game on Mousebreaker (http://www.mousebreaker.com/games/footballagent/playgame) , it consists of you having to buy & sell players to achieve your goal of buying forty million pound mansion.

It’s a point & click game but the more in depth features of the game are the math behind it for the your total amount of money and the way the players value goes up and down.

The games quite addictive as you want to make the 40 million to buy the house, but after a while it does get a bit boring.

No 4. Wood Street Restaurant.

No 4. Wood Street Restaurant.

http://www.4woodstreet.co.uk/home.html

At first glance I was thinking to myself that this site would be a bit hit & miss in terms of design and it is but only in some areas, and to prove my point the first part is on the home page, the use of comic sans on just takes the edge away from the rest of design, not to mention the spacing error between 2008 and the ampersand, a minor error I know but still, it looks unprofessional from a design point of view.





Going further into the site there are some good points to make, the ‘about’ page is designed nicely with images splitting up large portions of text to keep the eye relaxed, this is again shown on the ‘restaurant page’ but using slightly images as it’s main use is to give the user an insight of what the restaurant looks like.





The menu page is does what it says on the tin, but again some errors in grammar let’s the page down and then when you reach the bottom of the page the comic sans font returns and lets the design down, I also think that the menu could have been done over two pages as this would have suited the layout better.





The special events page is for me, terrible, the font size changes too many times and distracts the eye, plus again the misuse of spacing, I feel it could have been done a lot better.



Overall the site is good for information and I suppose that’s what the restaurant owners would be more focused on, but there are some flaws in the design that let the site down.

Fashion Restaurant.

http://www.fashionrestaurant.com/fashion_aboutus_08_05.html


This website is done in posh kind of style to fit with the style of the restaurant, it looks professional and has a nice design and layout although I do feel the main part of the site could be a little bigger.



The information get's straight to the point and is relevant to what the site is about and is set out well, there are pictures at the side and top of the information to give the eye a rest from text, and again this works well.

Going further into the site there is more useful information about menus, what the bar has to offer and a link to there other restaurant site for the Sinatra, which keeps the same style layout as the Fashion site.





The online booking form on the site is a good addition and I feel the site should have been the same size as this part of the site as it means there is less empty space for your eyes to wonder into.



The menu page is a pop up window and uses the same style layout as the bookings page and shows their range of meals as well as a wine & cocktail list.



The site is nice, easy on the eye plus it works well, as stated above I do feel the main part could have been a little bigger but it’s not a big problem and doesn’t take anything away from the site.

The Maid Marian Restaurant Website Review.

The Maid Marian Restaurant.

http://www.maidmarianrestaurant.co.uk/

The website is done quite nicely and looks very clean and professional, the layout is good and the information is easy to find, the navigation is set out well and the page is not cluttered with needless images or information.

The home page gets straight to the point with a description of the restaurant and a short description of how things are ran in the restaurant, I think this a good thing as it gives you an insight of what to expect when you are dining there.



Again the layout of the site stays the same when you navigate to other pages and uses a different image on each page in the header, the images are relevant to the page and it works well with the site.

As you’d expect from a restaurant website they do have a menu page, well two to be precise, which are both done well and keeps the main course meals and other dishes separate, they also have descriptions of how there stock is obtained and how it is cooked at the top and the meal descriptons have information about what they contain.





Other pages include special occasions, where to find us, information on the wine list and a contact page which all keep to the same layout and contain relevant information about the restaurant.

The right hand side of the page contains different information for example, the opening times, customer comment and special offers, there is also a little fault in the text box as the text overlaps the actual box.



The site all in all is very well done and contains lots of information about the restaurant, I can’t really see any negative things about the site except for the overlapping text on the right hand side menu which can be easily fixed.

Mcdonalds Website Review.

McDonalds website.

http://www.mcdonalds.co.uk/

The layout of the site is good, very clean and everything as its own place and is easy to see where the information you want is, the navigation is average but blends in with the background a little bit.



The layout of the site stays the same over the whole of the site which is good as the user doesn’t loose track of where the information is.

The site is Flash based and shows some good use of this in forms of image slides and surveys that take in the information on what you think about the food and ingredients of the food and it also used in the navigation which is one the downfalls of the site, when the navigation is clicked on a dropdown menu appears which then pushes the main information down the screen and if your using the bottom navigation at the same time the main information is covered up. The bottom menu automatically appears once the main navigation is clicked upon which gets annoying after a while as you have to keep closing it to see what information you are looking for.





Going further into the site there is a restaurant locater which again is Flash based, it doe’s work very well and as a filter which means you can narrow down your search depending on your needs and area.



There is good use of pictures to keep the balance between text and imagery and this is easy on the eye and keeps the user interested in the site, the images are also relevant to the content of the site.

All in all the site is good but could be improved in parts, the parts that could be improved are not major but the site would benefit from them.

Car Websites.

Seeing as I am doing my project based on cars I thought it would make sense to look at some more car websites to see if I could get any more ideas to add to the ones I have now, after looking at a few websites such as Auto Trader (http://www.autotrader.co.uk/) , Desperate Seller (http://www.desperateseller.co.uk/) and Old Classic Car (http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/) I have come to notice that they are all very untidy and not very nice to look at, Old Classic Car is probably the worst of the three as the text is very close to other parts of text that is a part of a different section, this is very confusing and makes you loose track of what you are reading.

The other two website are very similar in design and again the pages feel cluttered and have lots of adverts on the side, the adverts are relevant but I feel that they are too big and take up too much space on the page.

Again as I said in my post below it gives me a good opportunity to create a cleaner cut website that is easier on the eye and more user friendly then the sites I have looked at.

http://www.fordvehicles.com/cars/mustang/index.asp

http://www.fordvehicles.com/cars/mustang/index.asp


This is the official website of Ford Mustang vehicles, the site contains information and pictures of the vehicles, this is good as it is relevant to the point of the website, however the site design itself is rather boring and could be a lot better in terms of layout.

The first point is that it is aligned to the left which is annoying as it would be more suitable and easier to view if it was centred, the whole website is done in Flash and it works well but some of the features are just there because they felt the need to include them for example the 360 car views, which are well done and look good but slightly pointless as your hardly going to spend time looking at the vehicles from various angles, then there’s the colour selector which again works well but it’s hardly going to be used.

The parts of the site that are useful i.e. specifications and price range are well designed but the layouts are quite cramped together, when you click on the vehicle range page there is no enlarge image button which is a shame as the images are quite small and look squashed which doesn’t give you a good view of the car.

Another thing I have noticed is that if you click on other vehicle range’s such as SUV’s the window fills more of the page, which leaves you wondering why the hell didn’t they do that with the whole site, it’s just a strange website from start to finish.

Hopefully I will be able to solve some of these problems in my designs and come up with a more functional layout.

http://www.wildridexm.com/

http://www.wildridexm.com/

This site is about satellite radio for cars, although it doesn’t really make it clear what it’s about until you click one of the links in the bottom corner which then brings a window up that explains the site a little more.

The site lets you take control of a car with a hippo and a giraffe placed in and they just drive down a long stretch of road through places that shows you what type of music you will be able to listen to on satellite radio.

The design of the site is good but nothing more than that, it’s done in a sketch type of style using only black, white and a little bit of yellow, his makes it a bit boring to look at for long periods of time as there’s no variation in colour to give the user something more to look at.

The content is relevant as it is all music orientated with different samples of what styles you can pick up on the radio, and as there is not much more on the site I’d say that this is the best element of the site.

The content is clearly organised but the most important content is in the pop up windows which again isn’t good design as you would always think the main content would be one of the first things you would see on the site.

The interactivity of the site is mainly done by the arrow keys on the keyboard as you get to control the car using these, the arrow keys are also used to navigate the hippo in the help the hippo game, which is quite dull and looks exactly the same as the main site but from a birds eye view.

There is another game called flip the animals which sees you having to flip animals off a car bonnet into another car, again done in the same style as the main page.

There is also a video clip called ‘Heaven’ which features a dinosaur of some kind run across the road only to be struck down by lightning and sent to Heaven where he is given a car that features XM satellite radio, which then presents us with the slogan ‘In Heaven, all cars have XM’.

So, my final thought on the site is that it could have been much better in quite a lot of senses, it’s not pleasing on the eye and I was quickly looking away from the screen to give my eyes a rest from the same colours, the navigation is set out at the top of the page as well as on billboards that appear at the side of the road.

www.allstategarage.com

This is a website about Motorcycle’s and has help on insurance quotes, route planning, safety tips and other useful information about motorcycling.

The site contains a lot of Flash elements including rollovers, moving images and videos, the links are pictures and are relevant to what your being linked to i.e. the plan your next ride page link is a road map on the garage wall, there are lots of links on the page but it is set out very clearly and it also has the links across the top of page so you can find a page without having to find the picture link in the garage view, I like how they have done this as it is easier and quicker to find what your looking for, another element of the links above the garage door is that when you hover over them, the relevant picture glows up in the garage view and vice-versa.



There is also a little game that allows you to build your own bike(which I spent a little time doing), you get a lot of choices on what colour, style and accessories you want on your motorcycle and also get to place it on one of four backgrounds then save it at the end, there is a little problem with this page, there are some black bike objects, which are placed on a black background, you can barely see that they are there, I feel they should have made the background lighter or maybe added a border around the bike objects to make them stand out from the background.



The plan a route page is just like Google Maps but focuses on good routes for touring across America, this is good addition for riders who are planning a cross country vacation and don’t know about the roads, there is also links to submit your own routes or check out the top ten routes.



The garage TV page features videos of advice from the people who work at the company, these videos are about road safety and how to prepare yourself for a safe journey, this is a good page as it shows you lots of safety videos on how to check you oil and other stuff on your bike to what clothing is suitable for riding and what hand signals to use to indicate to the riders behind when you want to stop or turn.



After going through the site and looking at numerous pages, it’s really hard to find faults in the site, yes, you might get confused by looking for links in the garage, but they have made sure you can navigate your way through the site easily by placing links at the top as well, the sites very well spaced out and nothing interferes with each other, the only bad thing is the game section with the clashing colour’s which could have been avoided by having a border around the image, but apart from that minor error, the website is spot on for design work and information.

Website Reviews.

http://uk.playstation.com/home/

The Sony website contains lots of information on a wide range of products, I chose to look at there Playstation section, the site is cleanly set out and is easy to navigate around and the design of the site is basic and contains an element where the background colour changes with the information displayed in the slideshow.

The page features a slideshow at the top with news on forthcoming games and features and as separate pages for individual consoles such as the PS3 & the PSP, the information is relevant to the purpose of the site and is updated regularly with news about new features and games that are forthcoming on the Playstation platform.

The content of the page is set out neatly in tables containing information about the product as well as screenshots and videos plus information on the manufacturer and developer along the side of the main information boxes.

The interactivity of the site is easy to use and works relatively well within the interactive elements such as slideshow controls, video controls and within the navigational element of the page.

The only problem I have encountered is the colour changing background, I found it distracting whilst reading information on a page as I kept looking at the side of the page when the colours are fading in and out and loosing track of what I was reading.

Reviews, Dan Saffer & Joel Schafer

Dan Saffer: 'Interaction design is an applied art'

After reading the interview I think that there is some good information that can be taken out of this and put into use in my studies, for instance he comments on knowing a little about other elements of design outside of your field, ‘Other design disciplines such as visual and industrial design are essential siblings. Knowing some programming/scripting is also important; it's like a sculptor knowing clay and stone. You have to understand the properties of the medium you work in.
Tons of other fields like filmmaking, art, psychology, anthropology, library science, physiology, and biology touch on the work we do and knowing even a little of them goes a long way.’

This is relevant as you don’t always know what is going to be set out in front of you in client projects so having a little knowledge in other areas might help you solve problems in the future.

Joel Schafer: 'I'm into minimalistic clean design'

A brief interview that contains useful information, for example not rushing into software but sitting down and noting things down and sketching ideas beforehand, also using other sites and pieces for inspiration are understandable but always use your own source materials.

The main point I think he is trying to explain is that less is more, having a page that contains lots of elements isn’t always the best way to set out pages but to use less and make better use of the space as it is easier to navigate and easier on the eye.


I also feel that the part where he describes mistakes that people who are new to the industry make, especially the first point about setting your sights on one thing and completely ignoring other things around it, this is useful as you wont necessarily get far in the design industry by doing this.

Ruud van Eijk.

http://www.ruudvaneijk.com/

Ruud van Eijk is a Dutch media designer who has done a lot of work in the dutch dance music field as well as other projects for companies such as Red Bull and the music channel TMF.

From his work I particularly like his design for D-Block & S-Te-Fan’s website (http://www.dblock-stefan.com/), I have chosen this as I like the way it is cleanly set out and this makes user functionality easy when you are navigating around the site.





When you navigate through the pages the layout stays the same which enables you to find information quickly and also keeps the sites appeal to the user.




The interactivity is not done by Ruud, but by kik-it (http://www.kik-it.nl/), the interactive parts of the site all work well and a personal favourite of mine is the way the links light up when hovered over, this helps the user to know what page they are moving to as it brings the link to life and its more noticeable.

Other elements of his work include these Q-Bookings Artist Designs, http://www.ruudvaneijk.nl/pages/portfolio/overig_print/qbookings/ and this motion graphic video for Welcome To The Future Festival, http://www.ruudvaneijk.nl/pages/portfolio/motiongraphics/rve_wttf.mov

Ruud is an inspiration to me as his design style stands out as his own within the music industry and the way he incorporates music into his work by using things you’d use in the music industry, another reason I have chose him is because he works in the music industry which is what I would like to work in someday as music is a big part of my life, music can be an inspiration as you can pull ideas out of a style of music and incorporate it into your design, for example if your listening to a subtle piece you can use the delicate sounds in forms of colours that are warm and easy on the eye such as yellows and oranges, or if you were listening to grungier music where you would be hearing darker and more distorted sounds, it would suggest colours such as dark blues and greys.

www.djzany.nl

This is the website for my favourite Hardstyle DJ, Zany, it is used to promote him and his music and also has information about him and a schedule of where he is playing.

The site is done in flash and has rollover elements on some of the links and features a music player in the top corner, other elements include moving imagery and text effects.



Firstly the website is cleanly layout, you can find the links to other pages easily and information is easy to read, when you click the links the page changes and stays in the same style and place as the previous page.



I think the way the layout stays the same and just has the information changing works well as you automatically know where to look for it, the picture also changes when you navigate through the pages, except on the discography page when more links are placed in the side menu so you can switch from his own releases to remixes and albums and cd’s mixed by him, again these are clearly set out to the right of the page.




The image behind the main part of the site is good but I feel it has no relevance to the actual site itself apart from the headphone cables, I think they could have maybe used a picture from a live set or a studio session that has relevance to him.

The music player is neatly spaced out from the rest of the information boxes and the interaction works well, I fell that the headphone image should be slightly smaller as it covers some of the button and text in the player.





This image of the bottom banner shows that the lit up picture is a link, the three to the right hand side do the same when they are hovered over.


The left hand side text is not a link, I feel that it would have been better as link as you can’t copy and paste the text, as a user if you wanted to use the address you would mainly always think that you can click the text and it would link you to the said page, this could cause confusion to the user as it is set out like a link.




Overall I think the website is good, but there is room for improvement, I would definitely make the bottom banner text a link to avoid confusion, the background image is ok as it is but maybe could be something with more relevance, but the site works well and the interaction is generally fine, the layout and text are neatly set out and clear to see the information you are looking for.

www.fivecentstand.com

http://www.fivecentstand.com/


This is a website for the band Five Cent Stand, I found it using http://www.thebestdesigns.com/ which is a good resource for finding Flash websites.





The music is Pop/Folk style (as they describe it on the site), and the website works well with their style, I like the way that it is published like an old scrapbook and it is cleanly layout, the little image in the top corner of an apple tree with floating apples moves back and forth which also works well.

As for the interaction, it works well, with a mixture of images and texts being clickable links, the news feed section, (shown below), has three links to it, news, bio and journal, which come up in the main section when clicked, the little arrows in circles inside the news feed are used to scroll up & down, I feel these are quite dark and you can only just see the arrow, this may be an issue to some users and could have been made a little lighter.






The gallery which is in the bottom left corner also has three links above it, tour dates, store and gallery, again working within that specific section when clicked upon, the images are links and are bought up on the page in a window with a drag feature which allows you to move the image at your own leisure, which is a good thing seeing as that some of the images pop up in silly places like near the bottom of page meaning you have to scroll down the page to find the close button at the bottom of the image window to turn the image off.



The image below shows picture of the male singer, as you can see the close button is cut off at the bottom of the browser.



Other features include a music player, which you’d expect as it’s a website based on a band, and links to their Blog and Myspace.

I think as a whole, the website works well in places, there are a few things that could be better and the site would work better because of this, after looking at the design of the site and how it is spaced out and everything’s clear to see and find, it is a good strong website and achieves it 's goal of advertising the bands music.

Condemned 2: Bloodshot

http://condemned2.sega-europe.com/en/index2.html
(Official Site)

Condemned 2: Bloodshot is a game available on PS3 & XBOX 360, I have recently purchased it as it looked quite a good game from reading the description and from what I've been told by friends about it.



So, firstly, whats it about, you play Ethan Thomas former Serial Crimes Unit investigator, who has been called back to duty to track down his missing partner, who you see running away from something/someone at the begining of the intro video, sounds like a normal kind of puzzle game does'nt it, you find clues and are helped by a team of other Serial Crimes Unit members, but no, it's nto normal, yes, you find clues and have to guess yourself from multiple choices either what happened in a certain place, or how someone died, but throw in a psychopathic town of weird folk in mask's that include pigs, gas masks and other strange stuff, also creatures that can appear out of oil slicks and stuff thats on the wall and my not so favourite creepy dolls that had me screaming like an 8 year old when they dont get what they want, oh, I should also mention that all of these people/things want to kill you, so theres the recipe for a nice bloodbath/gore fest.

Your key to survival is to use anything, yes anything, ranging from your fists to metal pipes to even toilet seats to basically batter your opponents to death, and theres also a neat little finisher move which allows you to throw them through windows or break there arms (which is quite funny if you break both because they hop around trying to headbutt you, they basically look like an angry version of flipper), this is where the review starts.

Yes, so far I like the game, although I'm sticking to playing it in the day because of the moving inanimate objects that scare the living shit out of me (The reason for that is watching Childs Play at a young age because me & a friend thought it would be cool, it wasn't), but there are some parts of the game, mainly the interaction that sometimes lets it down, so, your walking through a hotel room when a pole wielding maniac runs at you and hits you to the ground, you land next to an electrical cord thats hanging out the wall, so you try to grab it and then all of sudden the option to pick it up disappears, meaning you have to quickly look around again waiting for it to come back up and the by the time it has your all ready lying in a pool of your own blood, so i get furthur into the game and im now in a room where someone's been crucified, I get a call of HQ to do an evidence search (Shown Below.).


(Image from Videogamer.com)

So I start my quest for evidence, and yet again, the interactivity isn't much of a help, infact neither are the team, who just tell you obvious things to do like photograph the scene, when you eventually find what your looking for, your given muliple choices on what it could be or what happened, your judged on this and you get a score at the end ranging Poor(1) to Perfect(5), after pretending to be Columbo for a while its back into the insane world of gang violence, where again, your allowed to use weapons to bash people's face's in, where your then told that there are side missions to do as well as the main mission, these can be anything from destroy Oro machinery which are little machines that sound out a whistling sound which is what is sending people crazy and making them kill each other for fun to smashing up drug labs, they add to the games plot and gives you something else to do, but usually take a while to find unless you use your cool sound detector toy which is useless as it leads you somewhere then change's it's mind meaning you have to turn back around and go where you just came from.

So as im only around halfway into the game it wouldn't be fair to say its rubbish because of these minor things, infact it's fun (if your into that kind of thing), and its creepy as hell in parts which adds to the gameplay as it has you thinking what that noise was that usually turns out to be nothing, or it turns out to be a metre high walking doll thats trying to kill you, graphics wise, its good, the environments are things you see in everyday life like streets and warehouses, and an odd hotel every now and again, but they have all been turned into twisted and creepy places, which are usually only lit up by your torch.

So far it's the interaction part thats letting it down, I shall conclude the review when I have finished the game and let you know if there's anything else that could have been better, but for now, here's some screens of the game.

Halloween 3..A Review..

Firstly, this review is my humble opinion of a film series I’m a big fan of, now it’s not my favorite and by no means is it the best, having nothing in relation to Halloween 1 or 2 it shouldn't really be classed as an Halloween film.

So, my first point is why have a film titled Halloween 3 if it has no follow on to the previous two, it makes no sense, so seeing as I’m a fan I bought the whole series, having the seen the one’s featuring Michael Myers, AKA ‘The Shape’ numerous times and only having seen this one once and it was many years ago, my knowledge to the storyline was quite vague, so, being bored upon one afternoon I started to go through the movies in order.

The time had come to watch Halloween III: Season of the Witch, the film starts with shop owner Harry Grimbridge trying to escape two men from ‘The Silver Shamrock’ company the company are making Halloween masks which seems normal as it’s a week from Halloween, after being caught and then escaping again, he then ends up at a gas station where he collapses and is then took to the hospital, this is where we meet our main character, Dr. Daniel Challis, a divorced father of two. Whilst in the hospital Grimbridge is approached by a man similar to the ones that were chasing him in the first scene, this is where we have our first death scene, it seems this man has rather strong fingers and crushes Grimbridges nose, instantly killing him, the man then gets into his car and sets himself alight, blowing him and the car into pieces and the in comes our second main character, Grimbridge’s daughter, Ellie.

So, we have a mysterious death on our hands and Ellie, after doing some research into her fathers schedule and where he had been prior his death she then asks Challis for help, he agrees to help and this then leads us to Santa Mira, California, which is a small town and also the home of Silver Shamrocks factory, the film then introduces more important characters such as Conal Cochran, owner of Silver Shamrock and shop owners Marge Guttman and the Kupfer family: Buddy, Betty and their son "Little" Buddy.

After two more death’s, Marge Guttman is killed by a misfiring micro chip that has dropped off the back of a Silver Shamrock mask, and some homeless guy is killed by two more of the men similar to the man who killed Grimbridge, we get to the Silver Shamrock factory, where owner Conal Cochran gives the remaining characters a guided tour of the mask making facilities, Challis then see’s more of the suspicious men guarding a car, which Ellie says is her fathers and tries to run to but is stopped by the men, this is where the film gets a little better, Ellie is kidnapped and took back to the Factory which then leads Challis back there on an heroic rescue mission, but he is also caught and then took to Cochran, we then find out that the men are androids but are functioned to act and look lifelike, he then shows Challis his plan by killing off the Kupfer’s, in some fashion, little Buddy is killed by the mask, which operate when the chip’s respond to an advertisement of Silver Shamrock masks, and the parents are killed by the snakes and bugs that crawl out of little Buddy’s head after his death, Cochran then tries to do the same to Challis but he escapes and rescues Ellie, they then kill Cochran and his workers by throwing a big box full of the chips off a platform into a room where a rock from Stonehenge (which is supposed to have some magical power) then makes them react and triggers an electrical current of some short to energy rays, Challis and Ellie escape but Ellie’s dead and has been replaced by one of Cochran’s androids, she then tries to kill Challis but he kills her by decapitating her, this then builds up to the end scene which is set at the gas station where Grimbridge escaped to, Challis rings the TV companies and tells them to stop the Silver Shamrock adverts, two of them are stopped but the third channel is still broadcasting it, the film then ends. (Shown Below)



So there’s the plot to the film, in fairness, it’s not a great plot, but it works, it’s different to most horror film plots out there, so what lets the film down, apart from the obvious of having nothing in relation to any of the others, nothing, the general eeriness is there, and the soundtrack does add to this very well, the death scenes, well the Family death scene is very graphic and does make you feel sick (well me especially as I have a snake phobia so thinking about one crawl out of some kids mouth just makes me cringe, never mind seeing it happen from a close up camera angle.) (below)



The ending is also good as you don’t actually know of he stops the advertisement or not.

So, although I do think this shouldn’t be classed as a Halloween film, I can respect parts of the movie and the graphic details of some of the deaths are pretty gruesome, there’s just something missing that would have made the film better, maybe a reason to why Cochran is planning on killing all the children, well I say a reason, I mean a better reason than just telling Challis the true meaning of Halloween and thinking that it's alright to go around murdering innocent children with silly Halloween masks because of it.

All in all, it’s worth a watch for some of the death scenes, and for a laugh at some of the rubbish acting (mainly in the last scene shown further up the page), but it’s not by any means a bad film, I mean I’ve seen a lot worse in my time of movie watching.

Flash CS3 For Dummies

I have recently purchased this book on Flash CS3 as I am struggling to make the leap from Flash 8 to the newer version.

Having read a few chapters of it I am quite satisfied with the information it provides, the explanations are clear and they have picture descriptions showing you where the information goes or where a said event should go. It also has links to the website of the book that has tutorials for download so you can learn the code even if you have no ideas of your own to put together.

For the price (£15.99) I would thoroughly recommend this book if you want to learn Flash CS3.

I will post more on this book when I have got further into it.