This website NEWGROUNDS.COM might not seem to be a good design example, but, some of what is available on the site is helpful, although bewares of some twisted content. Just like Joe had mentioned last week it was not that easy for me to find sites I really could say I liked because of being either too gory or just dumb and a waste of my time; I also seemed to find sites that while entertaining might be offensive to some individual’s morals (I’m not sure so I didn’t want to push it for now; maybe on a different post though).
A teenager Tom Fulp started this site on July 6, 1995, originally hosting it on free web space provided by his local ISP. He admitted the site was full of web games that were point and click gorefests which actually looked pretty tame by modern standards and inspired a lot of hate mail. He eventually started using Flash in 1998 and then the site turned into a huge showcase of his Flash work. He started to get a lot of traffic, and his on-line buddies started sending him their work to showcase in front of his audience. The site snowballed out of control which led to the first-ever automated Flash Portal, which, was launched on April 6, 2000. The system allows anyone anywhere to submit Flash and have it appear on the site instantly.
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The thing I found nice for a newbie like myself is all the helpful tutorial type submittals that are free to look at and download. There are a lot of cartoon characters to see as examples for the older and less naturally talented types like myself. There are interactive examples as well as short clips that download fairly fast, lots of games like Killego. There is pretty much anything you could think of on this site, but, again be forewarned of potentially sick & twisted content.
Some other work posted at this site includes:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/485641 Well, That Was Easy
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/411981 Caffeine Conspiracy
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