Hype

Further research and another meeting with Michel from St Joost to talk about Hype and I have decided to go with this software. I explained to Michel what I wanted to do with the flow charts posted in previous blogs and Michel confirmed for me Hype was an excellent choice. He reasoning being that very quickly he could teach me to use the program to make simple actions I wanted to preform with very little knowledge of website building and no code knowledge. So within half an hour using two short 30 second test movies and a jpeg file acting as a menu we were able to create two invisible buttons that directed the user to a each film which would play in the browser.

The program reminds me of DVD Studio pro so I could easily navigate around it and preform the steps needed to make this simple test. With options such as looping a movie or having it automatically play in the browser or jump to another menu I can see that very quickly I can make Hype do the basic steps I want it to do.

To move forward I will need a domain name and a hosting site to upload my files to. At this stage I will use the St Joost site to make tests before I launch the site and go live. But before all that happens I need to finish the film!

Some of the other customisable options I would like to add is to making my own loading icon. Tumlt lists in their forums how to do this. There is a nice link to a pre-loader icon maker called spin and a nice simple bit of code to add. So even know I am choosing this program because I can used it with out code I am still willing to do a bit of code dabbling to maximise the web experience.