Need help/volunteer for DECOPOLIS website.

[TheArtist]

  We are working on an upgrade of the DECOPOLIS Tulsa Art Deco Museum website.  We have a college student who has volunteered to help us design a new website as part of a marketing class project.  We want our new website to have more features and be able to have more, easily accessible and fun content.

One of the little ideas I had was to spice up the new banner that would go along the top of the home page.  Would like to have the DECOPOLIS lettering "shimmer" like light playing across a shiny metallic surface, and to have the spotlights slowly play accross the sky.  Something to give the first page a little pizazz.



If anyone could help us figure out how to do that, or better yet, would volunteer to do that, or knows of anyone who might.  Please let me know, any assistance would be much appreciated.

Btw, we are shooting to get our first museum space downtown sometime next year.  Stay tuned 

[nathanm]

You want Flash, but Flash is evul.

[Smokinokie]

You want Flash, but Flash is evul.

Just say no to FLASH!

[patric]

Just say no to FLASH!

A simple animated .gif would likely work.  Flash ruins the browsing experience for many.

[Hoss]

A simple animated .gif would likely work.  Flash ruins the browsing experience for many.

*cough*cough*iPhone/iPad*cough*cough*

[custosnox]

*cough*cough*iPhone/iPad*cough*cough*

For me that would be a perfect reason to go flash

[sgrizzle]

It can be done with HTML5. Flash is on the outs and a GIF that size would have a large filesize and poor image quality.

[sgrizzle]

For me that would be a perfect reason to go flash

I don't even use flash on my laptop anymore. Added 30min to my battery life.

[custosnox]

I don't even use flash on my laptop anymore. Added 30min to my battery life.

I just have a vendetta against crapple.  Personal thing ya know

[nathanm]

It can be done with HTML5. Flash is on the outs and a GIF that size would have a large filesize and poor image quality.

It could be, but then you'd have to play stupid browser detection games. You actually don't need HTML5, but javascript performance is so bad on some older browsers that it would look like crap anyway. You just have to make an animation, save the frames as jpg or whatever, then use javascript to preload the frames and animate them.

Flash, being GPU accelerated on Windows, will generally do a better job of it.

[sgrizzle]

It could be, but then you'd have to play stupid browser detection games. You actually don't need HTML5, but javascript performance is so bad on some older browsers that it would look like crap anyway. You just have to make an animation, save the frames as jpg or whatever, then use javascript to preload the frames and animate them.

Flash, being GPU accelerated on Windows, will generally do a better job of it.

On those computers with a discreet GPU. most business and value PC's use onboard crap graphics.

[nathanm]

On those computers with a discreet GPU. most business and value PC's use onboard crap graphics.

Any reasonably modern computer running Windows will have GPU accelerated Flash. Obviously it works better with a better GPU, but even the relatively crappy Intel "GPUs" have hardware DirectX9/10 functionality. (which one depends on age)

Of course, you're right back to where you started with Flash not being accelerated either on pre-DX9 computers (although it is GPU accelerated on my cellphone..go figure)

[Hoss]

Any reasonably modern computer running Windows will have GPU accelerated Flash. Obviously it works better with a better GPU, but even the relatively crappy Intel "GPUs" have hardware DirectX9/10 functionality. (which one depends on age)

Of course, you're right back to where you started with Flash not being accelerated either on pre-DX9 computers (although it is GPU accelerated on my cellphone..go figure)

Point we are making here Nate, is that the demographic of those devices that would be adversely affected by it is growing by leaps and bounds every day.  I don't worry about content being served to my home pc, but if I'm looking something up while on the go, my iPhone needs to double as a research tool.

And no, I'm NOT buying Android.  Know too many people with them who have them crash at least twice daily.

[nathanm]

Point we are making here Nate, is that the demographic of those devices that would be adversely affected by it is growing by leaps and bounds every day.  I don't worry about content being served to my home pc, but if I'm looking something up while on the go, my iPhone needs to double as a research tool.

And no, I'm NOT buying Android.  Know too many people with them who have them crash at least twice daily.

Small screens suck for browsing regular webpages anyway, and I don't use Android. The battery life blows. IMO, if a cellphone can't run for two days with light to moderate usage, that's unacceptable. If it can't make it through a full day with heavy usage, it's just plain worthless.

Either way, a properly designed website will have no problem serving Flash content to devices that can handle it and static images to devices that can't.

[Hoss]

Either way, a properly designed website will have no problem serving Flash content to devices that can handle it and static images to devices that can't.

that's the key.

Problem is, most aren't...