Traditional approaches to system development include design of both the application and platform strategies.
Transparent Flash and DHTML Layers
You can’t go to a major web site anymore and not have an ad pop-up on you, layered over all your text. Usually they’re done in Flash, complete with animation and interactive features. Nissan has produced some of the coolest buy far. Microsoft has a new one out promoting their mobility capabilities that takes over your whole screen (click here
and refresh till it shows).
Showing and Hiding HTML elements using Layers
A long time back I visited a site that had a very fancy, animated navigation bar. Now, as a professional web developer, I’m not in favor of DHTML-supported, fancy navigation bars, but it was very fascinating. What they had done was, whenever you hovered your cursor over a link, a big, comics-type dialog balloon appeared to give further details of that link. I wondred how they did it, but then it slipped out of my mind.