i’m trying to think of an idea for a site that’s really unique, something that people will stare at and say “WOW!!!”, but i’m not the type of person who has millions of ideas. i want to see how this one appeals to people. I want to have buttons that look like cdroms, or cdrom business cards, and when you click them, they’re going to load into a cdrom drive, and start spinning in there(perhaps the drive will be transparent), and the page will load. Also, if anyone can think of some cool idea that they don’t mind if i use and take some credit for and have it on my site and have people look at it and so on, let’s see it.
Sounds like you already have an idea, why don’t you do some preliminary sketches and plan out how things are going to be layed out.
You can post your progress and see what people think. If people like it then go ahead and build it.
OK, here’s a really simple, bad, horrible, 1 minute, unproportioned pic of what it will look like…obviously I will make everything look a LOT more realistic, but here’s the concept:
somewhere but i dont’ remeber where i got the url from it was i think it was in the weekly site awards in kirupa.com or maybe it was in the best flash site in the world url i’m not sure i’ll reply again to this when i find it
Yeah, it was a site in the Site Check section, and was up for SOTW once before…
They USED to use the draggable cds that you put into the CD player and they spun as the section loaded.
They don’t use it anymore, now they got some silly cat 
It was a good idea though. Although maybe with a few adjustments you can improve on it and make the idea your own
Hmm…well I never saw the site, and I though that the idea was very original, however, I have no clue what to change becuase I never saw the old boogssoftware…so if anyone could tell me what that was like and what I could change to make it more “my own”, I’d appreciate that.
Well the old boogssoftware was a bit complex.
The CDs stood in a tray on the left side, you had to click and drag the cd down to the Control Panel looking thing and place it within the CD ring (which is facing you, and not in a drive like yours is), after you drop the CD there an animation would play of the cd dropping into place and the cover going over the CD, then the cd would start spinning… first slow, then to fast (the cover had transparent areas where you could see this). When you wanted to change section you had to hit the Eject button, the eject button would then reverse the spinning animation (making it go from fast to slow), and once the CD stopped the cover would animate open and the cd would slide back to the panel on the left with the other CDs.
Oh. I was thinking of making it as simple as possible. When you click on a CD, the CD in the drive stops spinning, drive opens, old CD pops out, new CD goes in, drive closes and starts spinning. And all the user has to do is click on a CD. Sound good, and different?
you have a good memory
This site kinda has a CD-Rom thing going… have a look its pretty good 
wow my that last site has a a flash app totally integrated in the webpage - incredible !!!
ok, i made a little computer with a cd tray…do you like it?
- Have some recording of a computer loudly processing the CD while you are loading.
- Have the modem be on the left. Make it serve as the navigation area.
- Then put a computer screen on the right for the main sections.
what modem?
oh crap the wrong animation is on here…oppsie
um i’m going to go redo it and post a new one up here
sry
ahhh… i am working on a simailar project… I SUGGEST to use a picture of a real computer whcih you can find on google image serach and animate it. some great examples are www.preloaded.com its a tv… its very nice. you can check my one out at http://members.optusnet.com.au/malaykham/
