I had the problem of trying to split myself between two important sessions.  In the Grand Ballroom, Peter Barr-Watson was speaking about Mobile Flash and Guy Watson was speaking about Effective Flash Navigation in the Crystal Ballroom. Unfortunately, I could only do half of each (I also had to leave the conference early because of previous committments).

Both Peter and Guy had TWO tough jobs. Following Kevin Lynch and taking topics that could fill several good size books and bringing them down to an hour session.

Have no doubt, the future of Flash is in the mobile market. By the end of 2006, 98% of all cellular technology will be Flash enabled. World-wide, that is a HUGE market.

Peter is self-publishing a book on the subject and I am planning on closely following him with the journal. You can find his writings at:

www.peterwatson.com/extras/flite

My suggestion is to follow this site closely.

Guy Watson began by giving us good and bad examples of Flash Navigation. Two examples of good is:

www.elgrando.ee
www. drewmedia.com

Two examples of bad are:

www.nuspirit.com
www.red-design.com.uk

He also discussed about using JavaScript to pass information from the browser to the Flash movie.

My only quibble was his use of Framesets to do it. As many web designers know, this can be a rather dicey subject and most try to stay clear of it. However, overall, there were a lot of great ideas here.

Today is the finish. I will report later and, over the weekend, give some additional toughts.

Charles