I’ve seen plenty of sweet, interactive advertisements built with Flash technology. This particular one that I ran into on Lifehacker.com today grabbed my attention right away and got me to click on it indefinitely. It’s for an HP Touch-Smart PC, which looks really sweet. The ad starts out like any other Flash animated square ad then when you hover your cursor over it a menu jumps out of the ad in separate blocks, one by one and gives off a really nice looking perspective effect as if its popping out of the screen at you. It also moves around very elegantly as you move your cursor around, anyways good job on the ad HP.

I’ve been working on re-designing the company website since I started working for Spinneybeck in 2006. At first things were moving along smoothly, although I wasn’t totally for it, the boss wanted the new site done completely in Flash. So we worked on an entire flash design for months knowing that eventually we will need to outsource to have a custom shopping cart integrated into the new flash design.

Unfortunately We couldn’t use an out-of-box shopping cart like Flashcart without heavy modification because our current shopping cart is very unique. Aside from the few products we sell as standard widgets, different types of products can be purchased through our site, one of which are leather samples that are free to customer as well as the shipping. The other type of products are Leather Rugs, that require individual photos for each rug, and as soon as one of these rugs are purchased they need to be removed from the site. So we were able to hire a team of developers to integrate our flash design into an .ASP powered website complete with a custom shopping cart.

I am pleased to announce the new SPINNEYBECK.COM. Below are a few screen shots to overview the improvements from the old site.