Hello Tomorrow™

The main motivation for this little downloadable Flash demo site is simply that I wish there’d been something similar to this when I built my first Gaia based Flash site.

Hopefully, it will help other AS/Gaia novices get their head around a few things and give people a kick in the right direction.

View Demo

Here it is: http://www.tmrw.co.uk/demo/gaia-framework/

Source Files

Download it all here: http://www.tmrw.co.uk/demo/gaia-framework/gaia-as3-demo.zip

Dependencies

You’ll need the Gaia Flash Framework extension installed, you can download that from here.

Notes about the demo

1. This particular demo is built on Gaia v2.4.9 - the AS3 version
2. The site this demo is based on (designbygrain.com) was my very first AS3 site, I’m not a programmer and I’m not promising my code is as organised or tidy as is should be, but hopefully someone out there will find it useful!

Background

The first site I had the opportunity to use the Gaia Flash Framework on was designbygrain.com. The framework made it easy for me, an ActionScript novice, to create what I hope is a high quality section/page based site.

Not only was Gaia useful, but the community on the forums was ace at helping out and suggesting solutions to any problems I had, and Steven Sacks deserves a lot of credit for all his work in getting the Gaia Framework to the solid, helpful Adobe Flash extension it is today.

What is the Gaia Framework for Adobe Flash?

For those of you who don’t know what the Gaia Framework for Adobe Flash is, best just take a look at the website (www.gaiaflashframework.com), but in brief author of it, Steven Sacks, describes it as…

Gaia is an open-source front-end Flash Framework for AS3 and AS2 designed to dramatically reduce development time.

• Revolutionary scaffolding engine builds fully functional Flash sites in less than 10 minutes!
• Simple API for Navigation, Transitions, Preloading, Asset Management makes development a snap!
• Deep Linking achieved through seamless integration with SWFAddress
• SEO Scaffolding makes Search Engine Optimization as easy as pressing a button
• Easy enough for novices
• Powerful enough for experts