Archive for the "Web Design" Category

February 1st 2006 @ 2:13 pm Filed under: Flash, Web Design Tags: , ,

I’ve been having a lot of trouble having Event (clicks, loads, etc…) in Flash for as long as I’ve been doing Object-Oriented ActionScript. I barely managed to call inline functions and having to use the absolute path to the property. Example:
class Foo {
public var _someProperty:String
public function Foo() {
// Lets skip how I actually make the [...]

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December 8th 2005 @ 10:52 pm Filed under: Flash, Web Design Tags: , , ,

One of my current assignments at work is to make something similar to Google Maps for my employer’s Oil website. I must build a map browser that is completely dynamic that will need to generate 3 dynamic layers for 3 different types of maps of Oil Wells.
I decided on making this using Flash, just like [...]

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November 30th 2005 @ 9:20 am Filed under: Web Design Tags: , ,

I’ve been spending way too much time trying to create a generic email design template for one of my employer’s client. It was with deep frustration that I’ve let the table designs win over the Right WayTM. In Hotmail principally but also in Gmail, sent emails always seemed to differ from the original version. Even [...]

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November 21st 2005 @ 3:43 pm Filed under: Web Design Tags: ,

I almost thought I had found something incredible when I first began playing with XSL. When you read the tutorials you can’t help but get lost in your dreams of unexpected power. For once (and without any database) you can have easy access to sorted information throughout a static website.
But when you read more [...]

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November 12th 2005 @ 10:11 am Filed under: Flash, Web Design Tags: , ,

Macromedia have brought a lot more depth into Flash by adding pre-compiled components (or movie clips) to the software’s library. Mostly available only in the professional edition, these components make building application faster and easier.
One of the components I’ve played with it the Window object. It’s simple to understand and it’s possible to create a [...]

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November 10th 2005 @ 12:20 pm Filed under: Web Design, XHTML Tags: , , ,

It’s really surprising to notice how HTML form elements haven’t changed since HTML 4. You can easily think of a ton of better features which could be developed to help the end users and programmers. To me, it is quite bizarre simple things as assigning a label to an <input /> tag can’t be set [...]

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