Internet radio Day 8: Bring the noise!

We're almost there. Just a few finishing touches: adding the streams to the site, animating our Tomkat in Flash, and testing the site before it goes live.

Andy: "We'd decided that the last page of our site would be a kind of wrap up of all the issues we'd covered with a link to the actual radio station itself. Since the link is just that, a URL, there's nothing much to look at. You just click on it and the music plays from your MP3 player. So I decided to knock up a quick animation in Flash to act as the link. I took the cat character that we'd used for the navigation, created some speakers and decks in Illustrator, imported the artwork into Flash and made a little animation of the cat playing some tunes. Nothing fancy, just a bit of fun really. I put a link in the Flash movie to the URL Sudeep had given me for the music and exported the whole lot. We'd already built the last page, so I just pasted the Flash code into the HTML uploaded the Flash .swf to the server and that was it!"

Angela ran a spell check through the entire site to get rid of any errors, and she checked the HTML code for mistakes. She looked at the website in different browsers and computers. The main thing is to make sure that the design looks the way you wanted it to. It won't look exactly the same on every computer or browser, but you want to make sure that nothing is glaringly out of place and that the browser doesn't throw up any errors.

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