David Emery OnlineAluminium
3 November 2006
The latest site we’ve launched at work is the site for Aluminium, a collection of re-worked White Stripes songs in a classical style.
This was not my work, however – the use of “nice” flash should be a bit of a give-away. Instead, this is all done by Graeme Swinton – a rather brilliant Flash designer we’ve been working with a lot recently.
The sites he’s built for us – the Scott Walker site is my favourite – are very good demonstrations of how flash can work well for certain problems. Flash can easily be perfectly useable if done correctly, and really adds a lot to certain sites which call out for movement and interactivity.
Having said all that, of course, the power of javascript and the corresponding effects libraries are catching up with certain aspects of what flash is generally used for. For example, the Aluminium site could have been done completely using html, css and javascript for the movement and animation. Sure, there are somethings that javascript can’t do – video and complicated animation being the most notable – but I can see that flash may well end up being used for just these things in the future.