Website update

Finally, I took a little time to do some updating to my website. There were some functionality issues I realized i needed to fix, such as adding previews and darkening the buttons once pressed. Also, I felt grouping of similar pieces would be helpful. It was also suggested that I add ‘next’ and ‘previous’ buttons, which honestly took a bit of figuring out for me with my limited abilities to think through actionscript. I also stumped myself with the frame details momentarily when I had code that worked when I thought it shouldn’t. Occasionally it takes me a minute to rumble the math.

Designwise, the site isn’t as different as I first set out to make it– same basic colors, icons, and menu. I wanted to add color and texture to the background. I had also set out to reposition the menu at top, add framing elements in the menu, and create individually different icons, but found that the original functioned much better. When I was first building the original site, I started with the clean adobe illustrator-style edges, but went for the sketched components that my sketchbook is replete with. After a brief consideration to adapt the cleaner mode, I’m feeling that there’s more unique as is for now.

Any information I could find about Flash 8 and preloaders indicate that it will only run the preloader once the entire movie is loaded, therefore skipping directly to the main movie and defeating the whole purpose. Rather than waste a lot of time trying to contrive a way to make it work, I cut it as an unimportant element. Eventually, I hope to get a grasp on actionscript 3 for a future revamp.