Hi Guys,
Its taken me a while but its finally completed (not enough free time). My new portfolio;
I’m very pleased with it. The site will resize to whatever size your browser is (though there is a limit after which it gets pretty garbled), all movement is driven by actionscript and all content is generated by an external datasource.
Server seems a little skitty though…
Hope you like it.
Steven.
Very nice…very nice indeed. I really like the transitions, I’m enjoying the whole experience of browsing your site. Nice job.
The only issue I can see so far is the animations are slowed down in your
Work page for me.
Other than that, I love it.
-Ind
very nice and refreshing…something different. Way to work the logo and branding into the whole experience. I really dig it.
I would like to know how you setup your news though as I’m looking to make a similar layout with photos and text 
So if you’re up for maybe sending me in the direction to making something like it, then I’d be grateful.
-Ind
Whoa thanks for the nice words. I do need to tweak the work section as its getting a bit bogged down with a few pieces of redundant code.
I guess I’ll spend the next few weeks tweaking it until its as good as it can get.
Ind, I don’t have any links to share I’m afraid. It all came from my head! Basically each item is based on a template item that is added dynamically, this template has actionscript that monitors and controls the next item.
Thanks again
Very nice work - congratulations! Looks like all of that study paid off… I’m certainly glad you’re not in Australia making me look bad 
I really like how you’ve thought about the transitions and how smooth everything is. First class work, mate.
A few questions for the eager student:
Are you using actionscript tweens for transitions and the movement of each entity or have you programmed all of this yourself.
Can you briefly discuss the software used to make your Freewriter application?
I’ve just found two things in the site that you may want to look at:
There’s a bug when you use the mousewheel to scroll the news section… it scrolls one story too far. The story that was just off the bottom of the page scrolls off the top of the page - at least it does for me.
I’d like to see some sort of categorisation in your portfolio section to help usability. You’re forcing the user to click on items without actually having any idea of what they might lead to - the thumbnails are often a little ambiguous. Cognitive Psychology tells us that short term memory can typically only hold 5 to 7 items… which means that we as developers should either rethink or avoid our long menus. In your case, it would really benefit from headings like ‘games’, ‘websites’, ‘experiments’ etc. I personally don’t like having to click on everything to possibly find what I’m looking for and I don’t think I’m alone on that.
But once again - really slick, novel and unique website. Something I’m sure you can be very proud of.
two thumbs up
Ok, no I didnt use any tween classes in my movie. I basically have my own set of functions that allow me to move stuff how I feel. I dont think theres anything wrong with the tween class, but i personally always make my own stuff from scratch.
Freewriter was made entirely in Flash. If i had more time it would be connected to a database, and there wouldnt be so many bugs. To make it an executable for the pc I think I ran it through SWF Studio, but I’m sure that Zinc will also do the same thing for you. I think SWF Studio is made by Northcode and Zinc by Multidmedia.
Oh yeah, as for your critical points. Thank you. This is the stuff that I really will benefit from. I will definitely look into the categorisation of the work section. Thanks for the advice!
it doesn’t load for me 
really nice stuff. I’d only suggest you consider your portfolio section as it expands…sectioning off certain mediums/topics for instance.
Very nice simple but something new… way to go…
But I really dont like the way your scrollbar is working with clicks… it would be really great if you can make it work on onPress event and not on release event…
Ok cool! I changed the scrollbars to on press rather than on release like you suggested. Thanks for the advice.
it’s not loading for me either.
WOnt load fer me either …server error
tight as a ducks bum in a thunder storm
translating … … …
that is a nice site.
Sorry about all the server issues with my site guys. I’m onto it, it just seems like the server it is on keeps falling over every now and then.
Yeah sorry man, it’s not working for me either … complain to your server people!
It seems to be running now? anyone having problems?
I still can’t access it … the splash/enter page comes up but goes to nothing or the server won’t work or let me pass after I press enter etc.
Oh no this is so frustrating. It works fine for me in both FF and IE but it seems some people are having problems.
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