(I guess Blogger has it set to a different time zone because it says I posted this in Friday when it was 30 minutes past midnight here when I posted... Ah well...)

Sorry I'm a little late. I drove to Fort Rucker in Alabama to see my older brother who is flight school and it was family day so I got to see him fly and I thought I would be home on time to post but it's been a crazy sort of day. I fixed the problem I had last week with the buttons not targeting the flash file I wanted. It wasn't anything in the coding that I did wrong as far as I know... I ended up having to remake the buttons in Flash and then stuck in the same actionscript I used before and it worked so I guess Flash was just being buggy. You can click the link below the image to view the work I've done so far on it. (I should mention that the pen to the right will load the main SWF file that acts as an index to my portfolio since you can't see the links on the post-it or the links on the record player once the paper comes over it.)


Click Here to View Index Page

I am having another problem with it unfortunately. For some reason Flash doesn't want to load the last frame of the file I'm targeting externally and it's where I have the actual thumbnail images to the site content and eventually links that will take you to larger images of those files. I'm not seeing anything wrong with actionscript again and it's driving me a little batty trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong because if I load that file by itself it works perfect it's just when I try to load it from my main SWF file that it starts to act wonky. In any case here is what one of the last frame of one of the sections will look like. There will probably be at least a total of three of these, one for each section of the site. This is just a preview of what will be on the actual paper index. I decided to lay everything out in Illustrator first since it's so much nicer playing around with image, font, and line placement there.



I decided on image links to my creative package which will like the links say take you to images of a business card, letterhead, and envelope I designed as part of a portfolio package in my last advertising class. I'm hoping to learn how to integrate light box with Flash in this project and that'll be a great learning experience for me. I've found a few tutorials, it's a matter of sitting down, making myself sit down and read it step by step instead of breezing through and skipping steps like I usually like to do with tutorials (A really bad habit).