Gavin Orland » New Graphic site launches

New Graphic site launches

Friday 22nd February 2008 16:57 in Work | 55 views logged | No comments

Through my company Orland Media Ltd, I have completed development of the site for Irish design agency New Graphic.

The site was built to specification in ActionScript 3.0 and is entirely XML driven, allowing my client to easily update the site themselves without needing to come back to me. The core architecture of the site is very lightweight (therefore fast loading) at only 75Kb.

As far as the technical details go, my decision to create this project using ActionScript 3.0 yielded the following benefits:

Ten-fold speed increase
E4X XML parsing (easier data handling)
Enhanced drawing API
Simplified and formalised event handling model
Correct type objects for the job at hand (i.e. Shapes for shapes, Sprites for one frame clips) == lower overhead
Use of enhanced third party classes, such as TweenLite AS3

The site was engineered entirely using external ActionScript (.as) files and my editor of choice was FlashDevelop.

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