Entertainment Revolution

[jaxspades]

When you read this title, what do you think of?

I am designing a website that will have movies, pictures, articles, whatever...and I want to know what you would look for in a site like this.

Such as:
Site Layout
Content
Flash or no Flash...?
etc...

Any ideas would be awesome.

[Redundant]

I thought of LCD televisions and large stereo systems. Something a site like BOSE or Sony would use.

If you do use flash, only use it for the homepage as customers can't save pictures and text easily if the whole site is like that.

[Blade]

lol u can save flash pictures, there is a feature called "screenshot" on ur computer but that not the point websites come in 4 maint types, java, flash, html, and php. Each has its good and bad points, if u good at html u might want to try your hand at either adding flash or php to your site. Java coding is a bt harder, u might have to either read a good book about java or find some helper websites but it worth it in long run because of the abilities of what java can do.

[Redundant]

I know you can take a picture of the screen but would you do that for, say, NewEgg for anything you wanted to save? It also would get a bit annoying having to retype stuff from the site if it was not in normal HTML, (such as TBCS, which is in HTML)

Chances are, he's not going to write all the HTML, Java, etc code himself, he'll probably use something like DreamWeaver.

[CanaBalistic]

When i hear "Entertainment Revolution" I think of cutting edge technology, new film and cinematography, and silver screens.

Blade & Redundant,
I believe your thinking of javascript. Java is a programing language much like pearl.

I would have to correct Blade on website languages, the most commonly used website language for big business is ASP (active server page). Allthough you cannot see the code, it is there. It calls upon other languages to create the site. When a user views the source code of the site, they only see what the ASP has created and not the actual code which created it. Which is probly why you've overlooked it.

[Ronyx]

When i hear Entertainment Revolution. I think of a new TV and Home Theater system.

For your site i think Flash is a must. It looks great, doesn't have people bored when visiting your site and makes the whole thing pleasant to the eye. Plus with Flash you can really make the site look like a revolution.

Also i'd include some PHP to handle info and prices if you're gonna have them. This leaves you free to update whenever you like without having to re upload everything on screen just so you can get some new prices corrected...

Java is the way to go if you're not much of a Flash pro. It still gives you some good looking websites but without the bang and buzz of Flash. Better then HTML that's for sure...

Hope i helped =]

[jaxspades]

Thanks guys--alright, I think of big tv's etc, too--but I mean as far as internet revolutions are concerned.

I am coding the whole website myself, as I do not have the money for Dreamweaver and FrontPage. I tried Nvu, but it has some limitations...CSS problems.........

Other Html coders are messed up, and I will not use a WYSIWYG coder....ewww....

I would use flash only for the video page--nothing else...unless I find a better video streaming program.

I also thought that when you click on a video, photo or a file that you could download, it would display it's information (size, file type, etc...) in a corner somewhere. Would Html allow that, or would I need a different language or program?

[Cool1Net6]

When I hear "Entertainment Revolution," I think of...

A room. A room with 4 walls. A room with the sickest and slickest audio visual setup I could dream up. Huge TV screens, speakers and components that glide around, hidden when you don't need them and always in the right spot when you do. I think of everything connected; as in you can move any video source to any TV with ease, and the same for all audio, and the same even for pictures. I see the ability to float any electronic media all over your house, wirelessly and effortlessly. I see a fusion of photography, videography, and an audiophiles dream; a DRM-free world where you can move, up-convert, down-sample, and manipulate all of your electronic entertainment any way you choose...

...as for your site, a completely flash-based site is annoying, because its hard to cache, it requires more resources, it usually goes off and does its own thing when you load it in the background, you cant really enlarge the size of text or easily detect elements such as text, and it may take longer to load and navigate because of transitional animations. I think mild uses of flash (maybe for a menu, or displaying a certain product, or a rotating banner of new stuff, see CNET.com) would be decent, along with some nice CSS, but that all depends on...

CONTENT! If your showing off a set of products, like a TV line or something like a musical artist, then a flash site has more impact than a HTML+CSS site. However, if your displaying information, you cant beat regular texts with sprinkles of light, clean effects.

Not sure what you are going to do about content though. I have a hard time coming up with that stuff myself.

-Cool-

[jaxspades]

Yeah, I want to post sketch comedy videos, photos, things like that, so I need a video player of some kind embedded in the site

Thanks for the feedback on flash--I see what you mean. It is downright annoying and I do NOT want that--I want people to like this site, not be angry...

[Ronyx]

i would say you need PHP to code the pic info corner thing. Could use java too, HTML... no.

[Cool1Net6]

...I am coding the whole website myself, as I do not have the money for Dreamweaver and FrontPage. I tried Nvu, but it has some limitations...CSS problems...

..I also thought that when you click on a video, photo or a file that you could download, it would display it's information (size, file type, etc...) in a corner somewhere...

I used to use FrontPage to build my sites, but it sucks, and I ended up coding half of it by hand anyway. To help with my coding, I use Notepad++ (http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/). Things such as highlighting, coloring, tabbed windows, multiple undo's, etc, really come in handy when building a web site. It isn't WYSIWYG, but just have IE, Firefox, and Opera all handy for viewing. As for file stats popping up in a corner, you can probably achieve this with CSS or Dynamic HTML. PHP can do it too, but its up to you which you prefer to use.

-Cool-