Who are Media Circle?
Media Circle is a training organisation whose mission is to provide
competitively-priced, up to date, effective training and education for
everyone working in the UK media advertising business.
Go to www.mediacircle.org
The Challenge
A challenge of the Media Circle website was to create a Flash
animated menu system that could be integrated into the River CMS whilst
still keeping the main global navigation on the site as well. The site
also required unique page loading that showed the page sliding from one
to the next.
Other challenges included having a full trainign events booking engine, with password protected events information that becomes available to training event attendees upon registration and via password protection.
The Approach
Two flash navigation wheels were created to complement the global
navigation system, one large wheel for the home page and a smaller wheel
for standard content pages. To create the sliding page effect, the
content of each page was added to its own panel that related to links in
both the flash and global navigation. All this was accommodated by the
flexibility of the River CMS.
The powerful River CMS events booking engine was used to deliver all training events relted functionality.
The Results
The finished site is highly alternative with a home page that uses a large
animated flash wheel that links you into the main site. Once you're in
the site each page arrives by sliding in from the appropriate side based
on its position in the navigation structure. This is a really smooth
effect and gives the Media Circle site a very unique feel when
navigating through its pages.
Thanks to River CMS the site also has all the membership facilities
that it needs, allow Media Circle to keep their member list up to date
and in order.