I have this inner-office project to build some kind of repository of upcoming projects with a front-end that has a way to track the progress of each. I see the content sitting in a SQL dB. If you look at the image I uploaded you’ll see my first idea for the look of the front end. The hierarchy starts from the bottom with a calendar then timeline type of navigation. I’m thinking the year’s section will scroll since it’ll have to show around 5 years worth (or more). Each red tic mark indicates a projects update with the height of the tic representing importance of different projects. Different projects could be different colors. Clicking a tic will bring up a description of the update and another timeline of that specific project with more detailed information that can be shown. The red outlined boxes indicate 3 different project managers that deal with scouting, producing, following up/communication of each project. So now that you have an idea of what needs to be done I’m looking for some professional opinions on:
[list]Is Flash best for this or would normal ASP web pages be better and why?[/list]
[list]Will Flash handle this with SQL?[/list]
[list]Know of any cool sites for ideas of this kind of graphical show of information?[/list]
[list]Does the graphical representation of the content make sense or do you have some cool/better ideas you’d like to share?[/list]
[list]Does it need more?[/list]
Thanks in advance and if you have any questions I’d be glad to tell you all I can so the ideas can flow. I’m just kinda stuck with ideas right now and can use your help.
MP
