Flash Techniques

Is anyone good at different Flash techniques. I wanted to get some information on how to get photos to pop-up and load in a Flash window when clicked. This will be useful in a photo gallery rather than having pictures load in a separate page. Any thoughts or hints?

-Alan Fassonaki

Project 3 Ideas

I am looking forward for project 3. What ideas do you guys have for the story? Does anyone know of a good page length for this sort of website. I do not want to make it too lengthy where the story just drags on. Also, thanks Josh for the helpful link.

- Alan Fassonaki

Back to school

no more spring break...its a shame feel so overwhelmed with projects now but at least we wrapped up project 2! thanks for the link josh posted it was pretty handy. can't wait to dive right into the next project..this class has been so much fun learning all the web basics...

-jesselyn antonio

Interesting design idea

For the past two projects, Prof Anderson has been asking us to do sketches of what we want the website to look like, which I have found to be extremely helpful. Wandering the 'net today, I found this pretty cool collection of sketch templates, available here.
I think I'll probably use one of the first couple, the more generic ones. They could be pretty helpful in clarifying what I want to do for this interactive book thing that we've got going on.
-Josh Henning

Project 2 finished

well, now that I've had a while to cool off from project 2, I think it's a good time to talk about it a little. The whole thing was a bit strange to me, to be honest. First off, for some reason I have the due dates of most of the assignments about a week early, so I finished project 2 in an almighty rush, then came to class and found out I hadn't needed to. When I looked at the requirements for the project, I realized that it didn't matter so much that I didn't include motion gifs or CSS elements either; so I decided not to fix what isn't broken, and keep it as is.

I think the strongest element of my version of Project 2 is the way that it stays true to the overarching goal. It's not very flashy, but every page does what it can to try to 'transcend reality'. I think I really had a leg up here in that almost every photo or piece of poetry was written by me. The only pieces not done by me were written by friends who I actually know. As a result of that, I think the overall flow from one piece to the next is more meaningful. Moreover, I think that the theme I incorporated, 'A walk from darkness into light' adds a deeper dimension. Rather than being a scattershot of different prisms of life, there is an overall movement to the website.
-Josh Henning

project 2 completion

Project 2 was really difficult and I think mine still turned out looking horrible. I don't know much about how to design a website and I'm not really an artsy person. I hope it seems halfway decent to others. Some of the websites I saw fellow students working on looked 100 times better. I really want to see the creative types of things people came up with to share about themselves. Hopefully I will do better on Project 3. Flash seems like it won't be as intense and the e-book seems like it could be fun.
- Philo

Flash

Well it was fun to get into some Flash. Even if it may become deprecated at some point. You can do some cool stuff with it and add some neat parts to a website.
Looking forward to project 3, haven't thought of anything yet, but hopefully a good idea will come by.

Eric Smith