final pages

I'm having trouble getting my flash webpage on the scah server. Since I tried changing my home page to 'index' I can't get it to publish, so I tried just changing it back but it still wont work!

I've redone my pages and button bar so the colour theme is more continuous.

home

about

gallery

resume

what i've done

In class we are learning things (like the navigation system) that are different to what I want my pages to look like... I'm not sure if we are going to be learning about external loading pages, but I prefer using that because its easier for me to understand, and neater for when I want to look at or change something. Plus, too many things on the timeline confuse my brain.

I was looking at a few tutorials which inspired me to add some tweening to my text (not all of it) just enough to make it look a little more interesting and not distracting. The site I found is called "flashandmath.com" and it has a tutorial on tweening with text. There are a couple of examples depending on what you want to achieve, like making the text fall on or off the page (which looked cool to me!)

I also tried to look up some tutorials for what I wanted to do with my resume page, which was add a button that will allow the viewer to download a document (being my resume). Rather than having it all sitting there on the one page. I think this will be neater to look at, and with the link you know what you will be downloading. I couldn't find any related tutorials to this but fortunately the guy I was sitting next to is a flash expert! Richard helped me with the coding for the download document button and explained to me what I was telling it to do.

So now I have a go to blog link, which will link to a webpage, a download button, which goes to my resume, and an email text bit... which will open up an email with my address in sender. I haven't decided if I should put a link to a blog (this is the only one I have, will it be relevant?) or if I should send a link to deviantart. The problem with that is, I already have a gallery page on my website so why do I need to link to deviantart? But the good thing about it would be... they could see the progress i've made as an artist in my time on deviantart (my old artwork is still on there) Deviantart is more relevant to me because I like the community feedback... I don't really blog unless I have to.

Another tutorial I looked at was on www.adobe.com it's mainly for cs4 but it had some really cool navigation tutorials, I didn't want to get into cs4 because of the problems it might have trying to bring it back to cs3.

In Week 3

By now I think we were supposed to have our site plan figured out. The navigation system that I am using is pretty basic looking compared to what we are doing in class (with the rotating and what not) but I wanted my buttons bar to be consistent through all the pages and focus on the images that are shown, rather than the navigation.

We had a play around with the trace bitmap function, which looks pretty cool but I'm probably not going to use that either (sorry)! Because I want my webpage to be like a career portfolio, i'm not using other peoples artwork or photos (i'm not using photos at all actually). I've used my own images for each page, so I don't need to play around with the trace bitmap to make it my own, as they already are my own! Although I think it would look pretty cool if you wanted to animate the colours a little bit, since once is transformed you can select blocks of colour and do what you want with it.

Page designs

So i've pretty much designed the pages for my portfolio, layers are intact incase I decide to change anything as the class goes on. I'm not sure what we're going to be doing in class next week but I also decided to try linking my pages together with a bit of actionscript (based on my old project.) I managed to get every page to work except for the home page, i'm not really sure why it doesnt work, but here are the images of what they are going to look like:

here is my home page.. I designed the page layout in photoshop, using my own artwork (self promotion) and then I imported the background into the flash library, only it shows up much darker in flash than it does in photoshop and i'm not sure how to change that.

this is my bio page... Because I have a gallery page I didn't want to use the same images throughout the portfolio, so i quickly made a new image in illustrator.

for my gallery i've used thumbnails and a scroll bar, so if you click on the thumbnails a larger image pops up. Looking at this page in small view I think im gonna change it a bit... the green bar near the top looks too big. Originally that was where the thumbnails were, but I decided to change it to the side.

my resume page I haven't decided how to present yet... I'm deciding between having my resume as text on the page, or as a download (if I can do that) it would probably look neater as a download... but then the page would also look pretty empty

layout

I have an idea of what I want my portfolio to look like

After we looked at buttons yesterday, it gave me an idea of what I wanted my portfolio to look like.. since it is for my art I want it to have images of my own work in the background, i've sketched the layout of the pages and I know what images I want to use

I want all my pages to be able to link to each other, so they wont have to go back to home to find the page they want to look at.

A portfolio in flash!

I think this assignment is a really good idea, this way we have something we can use once we have completed our degree. I want my portfolio to help me with my career in the future, all i'm interested in is art so the people I would show it too, need to see a gallery.
I actually created a portfolio in my last flash class with Luis but I wasn't happy with the end product. The actionscripting got in the way of what I wanted it to look like! So i'm hoping this will be easier for me to understand and I can create something I want to use.