AnJoe Lite:Web Designers’ log

A new project was handed to us to come up with an invitation idea for a destination wedding for a friend of ours. We made the Save the Date card for them few months ago. They are having their wedding at Dreams Cancun, a wonderfully decorated resort in Cancun, Mexico. I’ve heard some other couple have done a unique destination wedding invitation where they created an invitation that looks like Airline ticket. The invitation resembled an airline ticket and was enclosed in airline folder which you get when you check in. Very cool idea!

For them we decided to go one step further. We are going to create invitation that specifically represents their fun loving personality as well as their wedding destination.  NO, we are not sending “PinYaTa” with invitaiton inside… although that would make an interesting invitation.

This invitation will be a Message in the Bottle. The message being the invitation. Pretty cool uh?
The invitations will be printed in high qulaity papers and we’ll burn the edges to make it more authentic.  Sands and empty sea shells will be stored in side along with beach scent.

We are in the process of purchasing the materials for this project. The final product will definately be unqiue to them. 

Stay tuned for the update on this project and yes folks, you’ve heard it here first, at AnJoeDesign~

It’s been a long journey but I’ve finally deployed the first version of Dave & Ginas’ wedding website. 

Dave & Gina

I’ve taken a different approach to this website during development. I wanted to try new way of displaying information with Flash. I’ve gotten comfortable using normal Flash usage so with this version, I’ve used external component and integrated music player. This is the first time I tried scene based flash movie.

External Component:

I’ve spent about two to three weeks trying to figure out book flip animation. I’ve gotten the basics from different sites but couldn’t get the actual thing to work. Finally I ran out of time so I ended up purchasing a book flip component from Flipping Book. These guys have really done their homework and created extremely flexible and useful flash component. If you are familiar with Flash, it’s very easy to implement.  I would highly recomment this site for anyone who wishes to add book flip animation to their website.

I’ve used this component as Photo scrap book and story book. It fits the context very well.

Music Player:

I’ve done previous Flash with background music but never adding a player with user selectable music player.  Tiago wrote a very informative blog about creating XML driven flash music player. If anyone is interested in adding fancy music player, I’d highly recommend this blog.

Dave & Gina selected five songs that represents them. The music player loads the music real time. It’s a slick implementation.

I still have lot of work left but it’s slowing down. I can’t say I’m proud of this site but I’m happy with it. The layout design could have used some work and inspiration.  Perhaps on my next release, I may play around with integrating Video. That’d be interesting.

Hope you guys would use these resources. I cerntainly found them extremely useful.