My Flash Site Project
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
My friend Phil and I had a project for our computer class that involved creating a small web site to demonstrate that we could do it. This project was a team project and we decided to partner up and tackle it together.
The first thing we had to do was to decide on a theme for our web site. Our teacher did not care what the theme of the site was, but insisted that it did have one main theme rather than a collection of thoughts.
We decided to make our theme on pit bulls because both of us have large pit bulls at home. My dog’s name is Thor and his dog’s name is Rascal, named after the band Rascal Flats. We figured this would be the perfect theme since we wouldn’t have any trouble finding images of pit bulls or information about the breed.
First we, created some content and took a few additional pictures of our dogs to prepare us for our site creation phase of the project. My mom let us use her brand new digital camera for the task. The pictures we took turned out great and the content we wrote was good enough to post up, so we got started on our next task.
Our next task was to find a free web host provider since we didn’t want to spend any money on a silly little school project. We searched the Internet for free providers, but all we could find were blog sites. Eventually I came upon a link that read click here for a free website and we decided to see what it was all about.
This site turned out to be a great place for creating free flash sites so we decided to sign up and use them. We ended up making a site that had a pit bull game and a long introduction that had pictures of both of our dogs in it. We fully animated the dogs and made them interactive with the site’s visitors.
We ended up getting a 100 percent on our project and even got to show off our project to the school principle. Our principle ended up enlisting us for the creation of a school web site and we got extra credit for it. We are now building another website for the school and I think it may even turn out better than the first web site we made on pit bulls.