Opened up Adobe Muse - Which allows you to build sites pretty much by sight and with a knowledge of hyperlinks and pages. It's brilliant! I dropped my Illustrator artwork in, added some button type things and there was the first version of a home page.
The buttons were interesting. You add a 'Widget' and then use the 'States' panel to choose how the button reacts on rollover etc. I chose the buttons to invert from black and white to white and black when rolled over. I need further content for the buttons to actually click somewhere but still... very exciting to see it take shape.
I set a click through link to a very important part of the site - what will be a video of people playing the wall graphic of the Wall of Sound! For now I've used a temp video but set the video to always play full screen and with the buttons remaining hovering over. There's something really nice about the graphic elements staying fixed on top of the vid.
HOWEVER, I felt the site map was a little skewed. From the homepage you clicked the main graphic to get to the main event? Not good. Also all of the buttons lived on the homepage, meaning there's already three options on first viewing of the site. It had to be paired back.
This works much better - the graphic is left alone and can perhaps be linked to some sounds of some sort - tying it all together. Then there's a simple enter button (changes colour on hover) which takes you through to the video page.
The video page is now the sole home to the Font and Share buttons.
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