Not hardcore about this, but it is a lot less code to deal with.

Im not hardcore about this either, but some are. Whatever the case, its coded to those guidelines.

With active/non-animated option state for a bonus.

If Flash is blocked or disabled, I display a functional, non-Flash version of the navigation. Using Flash Object (a detection script), it has made the ability to have both Flash and some alternative content really easy to implement. You could probably do one website that offers a Flash or non-Flash version all on the same site with out having to show a splash screen that forces users to select from one version or another and then having to create two individual sites. I haven't had reason to attempt this but it should be fairly easy to do.

On my pet reptiles page, I have a bunch of scripts I tinker with. My pet page use to be a personal project where I can display tons of content & media with out having the visitor ever leave the page. At first I went crazy with PHP & sessions to activate low & hight bandwidth options (that would display different chunks of code when the page reloads), but when AJAX came about, presenting content with out having to refresh the page became really simple.

Inspired by Fantasy Interactive, I've wanted to do an all-video header. After scripting everything together, it started to look like a music video so I added some corner "credits" for the final touch :)

In the experimental stage, I'm teaching myself about Video Compositing and Motion Graphics, and how I can use these tools to my advantage when it comes to website media. Watch my attempt as I tamper with the possibilities. There is a 3 second delay before you see the "transferring" text that indicates that the video is buffering. I set a higher 10 second buffer on these clips so depending on your connection, please be patient :)