September 7th, 2008
Thought I’d throw in a couple of screenshots I’ve taken of TES4 Oblivion. I absolutely enjoyed playing it the first time around, and it had a similar wow factor to the extent of when I first tried out Half Life 2. Once I’d got as much out of the fighting and looting aspect I turned to simply exploring the absolutely vast landscape and admiring the scenery.
(Vilverin is one of the first sights a player gets emerging from the prison/sewer tunnel at the start of the game.)
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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.
On the Essay
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!
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August 8th, 2008
We spent the start of this week transferring our furniture across the corridor to a new, more studio-like unit.
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July 25th, 2008
I thought I would try and make some category images for the main shop categories for the Ocean Addict site, and here are some of the first ones:
I felt vector images better suited the general style of the site, since previous graphics like the SAS Beach Cleanup image looked so good the moment it was planted in the sidebar.
July 14th, 2008
So I’ve had a holiday in a caravan with my family in rainy Cornwall during the week that had possibly the worst forecast for July ever. So bad in fact that our local presenter David Braine was demonstrating rainfall as dyed blue water in glasses, comparing the monthly average, which wasn’t very much, against a full glass symbolising what was expected to fall in just one day.
However it turned out nowhere near as bad as this and from the sounds it was further up nearer home that got all this rain. So we managed to visit some very beautiful places of which I have taken and uploaded photos to Flickr. I also managed to take a couple of quite successful panoramic photoshop-merged shots.
Harbour
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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.