Page Turn vs Page Peel Flash Effects

Posted on August 20, 2007
Filed Under Products, Real Estate News |

If you have ever wanted to have a nice high quality page turn effect for your site then look no further. In recent months I’ve invested heavily into the completion of our Page Turn effect which essentially emulates the effects of a turning page.

The difference between a Flash PageTurn (page turn effect) and a Flash PagePeel (page peel effect) is really not a great deal. The underlying code for nearly all page turn and or page peel type snippets stem from a single source. A woman in China named URNAMI was likely the first to publish the solution in the actionscript forums about 4 years ago. Its the source I’ve used and its the source most others use in their projects. Page Flip or Page Turn is the emulation of actual pages as the final rendering looks more like a booklet or magazine for instance. PagePeel or Flash Page Peeling is an effect that emulates the peeling back of the web page to reveal an advertisement or link as you can see in the upper right corner of my site.

Commercial client projects helped fund the development as I have used it successfully on two domains to date and I’m finalizing its introduction into a Real Estate site for online housing and condo guides. Its a truly nice effect given the limited resources for the project.

Two years ago I had actually planned to release a version that would pull its page data into a set of flash files via XML / PHP for use in Open Realty. The idea was briefly abandoned as version changes to Open Realty opened up a few barriers that proved to be a coding challenge. My initial concern at the time was the lofty amount of code that was currently weighing down the addon to make it void of any real practical use.

Well the worm has turned and I’ll be converting this page turn effect to work with database driven applications like Open Realty. I’m not saying database controlled image management or something as trivial as that, I’m saying pulling of listing data and all listing details to be displayed in a turn page document.

The Female Modeling Magazine Site, The CRE Loaded Cart and soon the Real Estate site will be pretty clean examples of how effective this tool can be used. Commercial sites like JC Penny, Victoria’s Secret and IBM have been using such effects on their web sites for two years. People tend to gravitate to the familiar and books and magazines are familiar. This would explain the attraction to its use I’m sure.

I’ll get a demo up this week for you to examine. Chances are most people would want to see the models so I’ll likely publish that one. I’ll then provide a link to the Real Estate site that has the feature effectively employed.

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