(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).

I'm working on a few things at once. I'm still working on creating the first food website that I showed you but I've also started work on another which will be a Japanese restaurant based off these menus also made in my Publication Design class.




Click Here to View the Site in Progress

All I have for it is for is the following image. I plan on having the butterfly at the bottom corner be the link to enter the rest of the site which will feature the menus along with pages containing information on what would be the restaurant if it were real.

I'm also working on getting my portfolio site made. I have the basic design laid out and I've started adding actionscript to the flash file, however, I'm having trouble with getting it to go to the next frame or target to an external file. I don't understand why it's not working, I have the code right and I'm not coming up with any errors but basically, when you click on, "Advertising, Publication Design, or the Digital/Web link, I want the following movie clip to play and then stop, showing the piece of paper with a list of menu items/preview images that you can click on. These items will either link to image files or html pages featuring the work shown in the preview images.


Click Here to View Index Page

Currently the buttons I have working are the round black and gray buttons on the record player. The black button should take you back to the portal page of my website and the gray button is an email link that should open up outlook or whatever email client you're using.

If the buttons on the post-it would work then this it what it should look like.


Click Here to Preview Movie Clip Transition

I made more page layouts for this potential site and am in the process of loosely putting the pieces together in Flash. The only working buttons right now are the History and Company buttons located under the About menu.


Click to view swf file

I've been taking menu designs I did in Publication design, expanding on the design and trying to create what would be companion websites for them if they were real companies. This first menu is for a roadhouse type of restaurant and I wanted a rustic feel to it. I'm creating each website page individually in Illustrator and then I'm going to important the files into Flash and code the files for the web. This is what I have so far:

(Menu Designs)

(Web Design)

Project Proposal

For the project, I would like to create a portfolio site that is a compilation of new and old work. The work would include projects done in both advertising and publication design, along with work done for the web. I will also be building site designs in flash and possibly through other media such as css, html, and javascript (maybe), throughout the semester to create a stronger web background.