Las Vegas Launch Project
This was a class project that was to create website to promote a city for tourists. The website was designed in Adobe Photoshop. The concept of the website is to be modern, with useful info and tips, and to create an online community.
The features of the website include,
Twitter engine on the homepage. The application will go to the twitter server every 20 seconds to filter through the data and find whoever tweets the keyword 'Las Vegas' out of the database, display on the website with the user's avatar, tweets, time of the tweets, etc. In addition, click on the user name or avatar will link to the twitter user profile or click on the 'read more' to launch the twitter page on the new window.
News Ticker application on homepage. Instantly pulling the data to show what's hot deal in vegas, every deals will show up for 15 seconds and rotate up. The data is interactive with the database, so it always shows the newest info.
Sub-category of the Las Vegas Activity on the homepage. When the user interact with the 'hotel', 'shows', 'clubs', 'dining' will show the related images in the slider slideshow.
Custom navigation with custom javascript function to trigger the image sprite.
Image slideshow with special transitions, in addition, the users are able to interact with the slideshow to choose the image to view
Cutting-edge Flash Skills to build up amazing text animations and custom ActionScript 3.0 skills for the images rollover description.
