fluid flash v0.1

Their is nothing wrong with a nice header graphic. Clients, designers and customers alike love them. But I often see them used as an excuse for fixed width designs. Well no more I say (unless, of course you have a perfectly good reason for a fixed width design in which case you dont really need this technique.)

The plan was simple. Find a way of incorporating flash headers into sites using liquid or elastic designs in much the same way you might use lots of sliding doors background-image goodness.

A quick actionscript solution, courtesy of Mike Ord combined with some CSS and Javascript is presented for perusal on www.morethanseven.net/fluidflash .

This is a simple example, the header at the top is flash and writes to screen it’s current dimensions. Try resizing the screen (liquid layout) or text (elastic layout) and see for yourself.

I need a nice attractive flash movie to really show this off so anyone who wants to send something let me know – I’ll make sure to provide credit.