Adding Multibox

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

FRED website

January 4th, 2008

An opportunity to work on a flash based website came up shortly before christmas where the company previously named ‘Uncle Fred’ had rebranded themselves to simply FRED and wanted their site updated to reflect these changes. Their website can be found at http://www.fredstalent.com.

The updated version is currently being tested at http://www.srjm.co.uk/FRED/

Flash and Javascript

October 31st, 2007

The next plan was to enable the flash in my new design’s header to change the dimensions of the div it was sat in so that for most the time it takes up less room, but when it needs it the space expands to allow for larger content there. I had already anticipated doing something like this so had included the mootools JS library at the very start of building my new design.

http://www.broken-links.com/2007/05/01/a-mootools-quickstart-guide/

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About Me

I am a web designer/digital artist currently studying BSc Digital Art and Technology in Plymouth University. I have returned for my fourth and final year of the course following my year in an industrial placement with the web design company Neovirtua and my own freelance work.

So far I have developed a wide range of skills, from producing videos using 3D software to gaining an aptitude for learning numerous programming languages. This is all on top of my original enthusiasm for art and HTML.

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Featured Work

Puzzle Flash

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.

Puzzle Flash game mini screenshot 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.

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