Four Click Freedom

Go to my Clickboard page at the top of the screen and go to the bottom and you will see the very first Clickboard.  Simple as it may be you will see its potential.  Refresh the screen if you would like to see it again.

I can put flash animation behind each button to give each new scene its own personality.  The add can even be broken up into sections where there would be multiple buttons at the end of each scene to choose from.  So in theory you can make a choose-your-own-adventure as an ad that never takes you away from your work.   Games, teasers, and trivia can all be built in.

All of this activity can be tracked, the more eccentric the ad the more relevant information that can be pulled from it, requiring almost no obligation from the user.

Although I haven’t figured out my involvement with the industry yet, it will probably be quite minimal. However the influence the Clickboard will have will be revolutionary.

My example comes from my girlfriends iPhone. There is a game on there called the ShakeMate. There is a beautiful girl with work clothes on. You shake the phone the first time and her glasses fall off. Again and again you shake it and articles of clothing fall off. In the end you are happy if you stopped shaking at the right time and a little embarrassed if you kept shaking.

The Clickboard can do the same thing. Each time you click on the ad the little more erotic it gets. This all without having to travel through the website looking at the preview pages. A little here a little there and you really get people interacting and experiencing the website.

Now that I have told you how the porn industry will change with the Clickboard, how will Clickboards.net be involved. First of all this really depends on the user. No information on the Clickboards.net database is for sale to such parties even if desired. So you will probably never see the Clickboard icon on any of those ads. Maybe I will make a side business and seperate website to facilitate the influence of Clickboards, even if it is a shady area. One thing is for sure, the two worlds are separate. I will probably call the website Crankshaft.net and make the icon my beloved Crankshaft logo. If you don’t know what I’m talking about you can go to my Myspace account and look at my photos under logo. I can be found at myspace.com/acgrindl

It is really easy.  I have actually come up with two different ways to make a Clickboard, both using Flash.  The first uses multiple scenes.  What you do is set your canvas size the the size of the banner you are making.  Then in four separate scenes you cover the canvas in a button.  The buttons as stated lead the sale progressively through the scenes.  And the buttons can be as extensive and complex as you can imagine with Flash.  All that you need to do is put stops on each scene and then link each button to the next scene.  The final scene will be the button that connects to the URL Clickboards.net.

The second method uses one scene.  Here you use four key frames and put stop actions on the key frames.  The click action will then allow the Clickboard to keep playing.  The final frame is again the URL action.

Basically one method uses the button to create action and the other uses the key frames.

I personally am not an expert and my rudimentary method is still in the research phase of asking questions a lot.  I wish I was back in Flash class and I would have my first Clickboard done in about forty-five minutes.

Oh yea and the reason people know they can click on these banners with buttons is because my icon will appear in the lower right hand corner of each button or step in the scene.

Go make one now!

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