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We’ve just completed a new website for FarPack Polymers. The site is based on their new brochure, designed by Alpha Design. The home page uses an interactive FLASH image, installed with background transparency, making background graphics used in the body of the site visible, and correctly positioned, so the act of browsing from the home page through the rest of the site is as smooth as possible.
The Flash itself is installed using ‘Flash Satay’ system by Drew McLellan, suggested by the W3C. We have been using this system for quite a while now, after playing with Javascript based installers. Essentialy we found that the latter simply imposed another barrier to getting content accross (does your browser understand our Javascript, as well as do you have Flash!). The satay method allows us to install (in this instance) a full text page with links hidden behind the Flash, for anyone who either does not have a compatible Flash player, or who has accessibility problems with this type of pure visual medium. Flash free? – No problem, you get a page formatted like the rest of the site, with all of the text and links you need!
Another nice feature of this website is that we are installing a constellation of micro-sites in different languages, to help our client with European business. The site makes extensive use of PHP to permit us to re-use components accross pages within a given language, and between micro-sites, allowing us to add new languages quickly and inexpensively!
