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^My Habitat

T his version of KellenStyer was named Habitat to play off an industry joke. Designers never seem to have a finished website or their site will constantly be under construction. I have to admit that I fall into that category. So the plan was to build a web application that would allow me to use the same content with different site skins. That concept would allow me to develop content along with different design ideas. But through the process of building this app, I learned a lot and started a new concept leaving this one as a prototype.

The preloader was a lot of fun to build for this one. Building the animations with some of the new Flash 3D functionality was a little bit of a challenge. A lot of base Flex classes were not loaded and available. Well, with a little bit of research, hacking, I was able to access everything I needed. Ergo… something fun to watch while my website loaded.

To navigate through this site click on the flickr icon “Flickr Background Set” to take you into the Flickr Habitat. Then you can access the main menu at the bottom center of the site. Each Icon has a interaction associated with it but will not take you anywhere. I unfortunately I did not get the base view structure set up.

One last thing, try mousing over one of the top right images. There you will find a Expand Image option that will take you into a new “past images” view. I added a lot of fun interaction there.

Have fun!

^Screen Shots