Rich Media Application Development (RMAD) is about developing a Flash website based on e-commerce themes. So this is my work for the project. My group created a flash website that provides stock photos. Its like Photobucket or iStockPhoto. Basically visitors have to sign up for an account to be able to download the images or stock photos. Registered users can comment and add favourites to photos and follow other users. The concept is also derived from Facebook to give users more interaction.
The difference between the normal e-commerce websites and this flash website is that you will get to see a lot of animations and transitions from page to page. This is created in Flash Builder and also involves the use of database and mySQL to function.
I would say that creating this website was a very tedious process. Also because it is in term-mode which means we only had 8 weeks to finish this, we spent a lot of time experiementing with the codes as not everything is being taught in class.
Its all about self-exploration and testing to get things the way you want them to work. Flash Builder has already quicken up the process of creating such websites and all we have to do is learn how to use the different functions it offers.
I hope that I haven given a deeper insight to our freshies becoming juniors this april and also to anyone who wants to understand what we do.
