After Andy’s ‘Mea Culpa‘ why wouldn’t it be…
But this is so much better and bigger, learning many lessons from the last launch – StomperNet strikes again!
Teamed up with Paul Lemberg a new product called FormulaFIVE (F5 for short).
Just launched a video to excite the industry!
So check out stomperf5.com now!
Thanks for your patience as I’ve been tinkering with the theme, layout and css of circlecube.com.
I started with a free theme from Justin Tadlock, Options Theme, available at theme hybrid. I’ve changed that theme quite a bit, from restyling it to fixing bugs I found and updated many other things on the site as well. So the reason I’m going on about it is I think I’m finished… and I’m asking you to let me know if you see anything that looks odd or fishy, or even just want to make a suggestion or comment on how much you like/hate the redesign. Comment on this post or contact me!
And as always, if there’s something you would like me to write about or have questions you can also contact me. I’ve even set up a poll in the sidebar showing post ideas I have which you can vote on and encourage me to write the one(s) you want most first! So let me know what you want, it encourages me to write more as well. And be sure to subscribe to the circlecube rss feed so you won’t miss anything that’s coming up!
Sally, a great photographer in the Augusta, GA area wanted help putting up a website that was easy to maintain and looked professional. I helped her out and set her up with a wordpress install, some essential plugins and a few themes! She is ecstatic!
Check out the site here: http://sallykolar.com/ and book her if you’re in the area and want great photography!
I’ve re-purposed an old project of mine, the interactive pog portfolio viewer, to FlashDen. I call it the pog portfolio because each work is represented by a circle, or pog, and you play ith it in the “bay” with different interactive physics configurations. When you click a pog you can view a close up image of that item and more details. The whole file has been cleaned up (code and graphics) and documented for easy customizations.It is a small file size as well, under 36kb swf!
This is mainly an image viewer, stay tuned for any updates, like video support etc.
Works and configuration loaded in through a single xml file. Select works from the bay to view title, description image and a link (if applicable). Organize works with the tags or select all and choose the physics of the bay for interactivity control (gravity, spring, grid and friction).
It is fully customizable and fully driven by xml. The xml file contains values for configuring the swf, and also all the information about each work to be included in the portfolio.
Each work is loaded into the “bay�? as a round thumbnail or “pog�?. These pogs are animated with the interaction options (gravity, friction, spring and grid). The pogs are sortable by tags (parsed in from the xml).
The whole color scheme of the image viewer is configurable, or can even be set to random! Have a different color scheme every time your image viewer loads!
Clicking a pog in the interactive bay sends that thumb to the holding area and loads the close up into the focus window for that work. It also loads the details about that work into the detail box (to the right of the focus box). Each works needs a 50×50 thumbnail and a close up (max 375px x 270px) image. Focus images are all loaded in with an informative preloader and fade is once loaded.
Site easily integrates with Google Analytics to track user interactions within this flash portfolio!
All works in the portfolio are passed in through an external xml file, here is a sample work node from xml:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 | <!-- Name or Title of work --> Random Gear <!-- Description of work --> Random gear photograph from FlashDen assets. <!-- Image paths (thumb and focus) are both constructed with the directory names above, or you can use an absolute path (http://flashden.net/new/images/pictures/icon_newsroom.gif) --> <!-- Image thumbnial, this is brought in and masked to a circle (width:50px x height:50px) --> random_gear.jpg <!-- Focus thumbnail, loaded into the Focus Box when pog is clicked (max width:375px x height:270px) --> random_gear.jpg <!-- If a link exsists place it here the Text goes in the title node and the url in the url, if no link leave empty --> http://flashden.net <!-- Tags for this work. Tags are parsed and displayed across the bottom of the bay (seperated by a pipe '|') --> Photo|Industrial |
Enjoy, and let me know what you think!
Website designed and implemented for American Program Bureau. Integartes flash content and video with html, all styled with css. Mock-up designed and approved with photoshop; built and implemented with dreamweaver (html/css) and flash. Visit the live site at American Program Bureau.
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