New site up using WordPress and Flash

  • Hi All,

    I hope this is the right forum to post this. I just want to share a new site we launched on May 1, 2006. It uses WordPress as a Content Management System. Each “portlet” on the Flash site displays content by Topic fed from the RSS file produced by WordPress. Hope you guys like it!

    https://www.liliangarcia.com

    If you like what you see, please vote for it on https://www.may1reboot.com. It is currently 6th place for most votes. Thank you. Feel free to ask any questions on how this was implemented. Hope to hear from you all!

    – Mike

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  • I am on DSL and the site didnt take long for me to load, although I do hate loading pages. I dont see the purpose of them. The site design is appealing to me. I would just get rid of the loading of every page, but each page looks great

    I think that removing the reverse load on the flash may help – as that, in itself, is doubling the amount of time a new page can load. What I mean, each time you click a link – the flash “unloads” or rewinds. That has no value to the visitor. JMO.

    lillian garcia is pretty hot, but the site is slow and overdeveloped. the design also lacks a clear central port.

    Brilliant! no load time lag here with firefox.

    Nice graphics and design.

    Not a big fan of heavy flash, but in your case I make an exxception!

    As for visitors who loose patience and interest in 10 seconds, what value do they have any way?

    I’m using FF and DSL – lag time is 9-10 secs. After 2 loads I’m gone.
    Brilliant layout and idea…but I’m not waiting that long.

    I’d like to see it, but I really don’t wanna wait *4 hours* for it to fully load. I’m on a crappy Juno dialup..any chance of a descent sized screen shot of the blog’s index page? Thx.. =P

    spencerp

    let me say i am impressed by the way you use wordpress to power a flash site like this.

    nice gfx, nice girl, nice layout and everything.

    going from one menu-item to the next is a bit tedious. deconstruct site, then reconstruct again … looks pretty for the first time, it is a drag after that.

    might want to speed up the transitions.

    i’d be VERY interested to see HOW actually you got WP content into that site.

    nice job, man!

    This is a wonderful application of Flash and even on dial-up it doesn’t take long to load. Great use of colors. However, as a designer I’ve got to say that all Flash sites should also have a link provided for a standard HTML version. Not everyone understands Flash and having a traditional HTML site should be provided for them. It’s just good coding etiquette. Other than that I wouldn’t change anything, and I certainly wouldn’t worry about those people who use IE. When they want to see webpages rendered properly they will start using a browser that complies to web standards. I would just add the HTML section and be proud of your work. Great job ??

    My only problem with the site is that the content is hard to read. But I love the idea of integrating Flash and WP with the RSS feed. I am curious how it works though. Is the WP on the back end? DO you have a place to log into? What is the URL for the actual blog? What does the actual blog look like?

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