I’ve just about wrapped up a new website for the American Institute of Architects, Birmingham, Alabama Chapter. We’re still in the testing and review stage, but I’m particularly pleased with it right now. It involves using the many good photos that they have–and we’ll change these photos out regularly–in a Flash slideshow. The Flash was pretty easy to accomplish using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and an optional plug-in called Slideshow Pro. I’ve used it before, but never with Lightroom. It worked really well, but not flawlessly. I had combined it with a Spry menu to manage the links (easy to set up by itself as well). For some reason, these two things didn’t play well together. A bit of hair pulling and then a quick search on Google helped me to track down the solution. Once that was in place, all worked as planned–what a nice change!
I developed the look of AIA’s previous website as well–still really like the look of it, but it was time for a change as the website was about 3 years old. Here’s a before and after.
Before:
After:
