We recently finished a Flash site for the author Lauren St John. She is best known for her popular book “The White Giraffe” but has a wealth of non-fiction, other childrens’ fiction and journalism to her name. It was an intriguing journey - one of those projects where the more we discovered about the client, the more it became a fascinating world to inhabit for a while.

Read on to find out what we did on the practical front to make Lauren’s work come to life… including an interactive realtime African game reserve, slide-out audio player and seamless layered navigation.

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I have found a solution for Mac users with Safari… Drag the image directly from the browser and drop on the Illustrator icon in the dock - and IT OPENS!!!

(Ben pointed out that this does not work on Firefox… strange)

Forget Adobe’s Tween class.

Get thy ass over to Greensock and get TweenLite. I simply can’t believe how much it improved the performance of my stuff.

I noticed that although SWFObject (javascript for displaying Flash with a reasonably graceful HTML fallback) works on iPhones from a javascript point of view, the Flash content itself fails. So iPhone users are left looking at a blank screen… hardly particularly cool, eh? Solution (uses PHP) follows…

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In ActionScript 1 and 2, there was a useful property - “_url” which would return the location of the SWF running the script. In ActionScript 3, it is gone, but its new big brother will help you…

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