Narrative - AS3 Deeplinked Designer Template Base

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Use the Narrative Template Base to tell your visitors a story about you or your brand. A narrative allows people to identify with and form a relationship with your brand.The Narrative menu provides you with an engaging way to organise your site content and give visitors a minimal yet unique user experience while exploring your content. Narrative Sells.

Features:

• Innovative Narrative or Story menu – for a minimal homepage.
• Deeplinked – link to any module.
• Background module with diagonal swipe – supports color, image or swf items for each page.
• Mp3 playlist – defined in XML .
• XML Driven – Edit the menu, customise the item without having to touch the fla file.
• Already set up to load AS3 External SWF ’s – paths entered via the xml.
• Control Music mute/unmute using any menu word.
• Control Fullscreen Toggle using any menu word.
• Call any function from the menu – enter the function name into the xml.(passing paramteres not supported)
• Control colors / size & menu story formatting via html and css.
• Width and X Y position of menu defined in the xml.
• Hyperlinks also supported.

Usage:

This item is designed to form the base of your next template. It provides a robust backbone for you to build upon. Customise the menu, backgrounds, music and then simply load in your custom AS3 modules. This template base has been setup to use SWFObject, SWFAddress, SWFFit and MacMouseWheel Scroll.

General Notes:

Flash Files require Flash CS3 + to edit. CS3 CS4 & CS5 versions of the item are included. Font is Helvetica Std Bold, (Mac System Font) and is not included in the download package. However I have included a second version of the file with the Free font Audimat embedded. This font can be downloaded here:

AUdimat

Any externally loaded SWF is required to look after its own positioning and resizing. Only AS3 SWFs are compatible – A sample external swf has been included.

Credits:

Images in the download package are from photos8.com Images in the preview are by the very talented milena mihaylova and are used under a Creative Commons Attribution license.