Impressed by the possibilities demonstrated by the Rolling Rock website, I decided to investigate further. With praising testimonials from Jesse Warden, Aral Balkan and 2Advanced (well known names in the Flash community) I was now quite adamant that, despite the looming deadline, I should move my current prototype over to Gaia.

Here was a simply documented, well laid-out framework that even a beginner to real Object Oriented Programming could get to grips with. After a few late nights trawling Gaia support and simplifying my over-complicated code I had a rock-solid website in place complete with video transitions, which no amount of mid-navigation button-mashing could break. On top of that I had Deep Linking, Context Menu, and Browser History functionality automatically thrown in for good measure!

Gaia's methodology of stacked (rather than nested) pages took a while to adapt to, and there were a couple of minor isolated bugs to contend with, but Steven Sacks takes a very active role in the support forum and released a new update overnight to deal with any issue that I found.