August 31st, 2008
Having received some images and instructions on content, I am quite pleased with the way the design is going. Here is a screenshot of the Home page, featuring simply his three rules:
It is still featuring the fluid two column layout where both sides expand and keep the content in the centre, and the tabbed menu holds itself at top right.
August 24th, 2008
Because I didn’t like the way a large comment form appears at the bottom of every post and page on my site, but I still wanted to keep the comment functionality available, I started looking into ways AJAX (and preferably something that uses the mootools library which I added to my site a long while back) could be used to make a form that is hidden until needed, for example in an expanding div like my Flash header.
While using Drupal during my work placement I had seen the likes of forms inside a lightbox style script called Thickbox, so I began searching for a Mootools compatible lightbox that can contain any HTML I want, such as the commenting form, knowing it was possible to find. In the end I came across Phatfusion Multibox, a great variation on Lightbox that allows a number of different things be displayed inside a lightbox.
It was easy enough to implement as well, adding my comment form to a HTML link, however I needed to make a slight change to get it to work in IE7 (and one would guess 6 as well). Basically there is a bug that specifically applies to displaying a HTML element in IE7 and is explained and fixed in http://forum.phatfusion.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=149
August 21st, 2008
My finishing of the 4,000 word writeup essay will essentially be marking the end of my placement year, an experience for which am thankful to Martyn and all the great people I have met during the course of the year for such a brilliant time.
As for writing it, fortunately I kept a document of running commentary on what I was doing throughout the year so compiling this into an essay has been reasonably straightforward. It has been rather pleasing to be able to look back on where I started at and compare it to where I have ended up.
August 17th, 2008
Here are a couple of pictures from my visit to Stonehenge. Despite the seemingly endless rain, it may have actually even been sunny on this day!
August 8th, 2008
We spent the start of this week transferring our furniture across the corridor to a new, more studio-like unit.
Based on a couple of puzzles I received a long time ago, this flash generates a random puzzle and then jumbles the pieces up for the player to solve.
The flash actionscript behind this is flexible enough to allow for any size
puzzle to be created and jumbled as many times as I like. In addition to this,
the difficulty of rotating pieces is also a feature.
