Oblivion

7th September, 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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Matt Wreford Site Design

31st August, 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.

Gandalf Attack

29th June, 2008

Thinking ahead to the 4th year game’s module and the fact I heard that part of the module is writing an essay on a game, well here is my most likely answer:

Personally I think this is the best game concept ever, and its still great after ten years.

Personal CV Website

28th June, 2008

I have started work on a new design for http://www.mattwreford.com/, the owner of which felt that his existing site wasn’t really up to scratch. Knowing only that the client likes very simple and minimal designs, here is a screenshot of my initial layout and general concept for the site.

It will be quite a simple structure of 5 pages (four plus a link to a CV download) as requested, tabbed, and with two main content columns that serve different purposes on each page. For the CSS aspect of this design I have experimented with fluid column widths on both sides, where the content is grouped clearly in two blocks but they centre and expand within their columns with the resizing of the page.

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Ocean Addict Drupal Site Update

12th June, 2008

Here is a preview of the new design (essentially the same theme) based around Drupal as a core. I’m still mightily impressed with the capabilities of this CMS.

The design is pushing the boundaries of CSS a little bit and its also using transparent PNG backgrounds like before, but now the box sizes are flexible to accomodate a fluid width design!

The Gnome Quest

28th May, 2008

When I first acquired Half Life 2, Episode 2 I just had to see how many of the quests I could complete once I had got past the act of playing the storyline properly once through. And of course I attempted to complete the particularly aggravating Little Rocket Man quest, which essentially sees you carry an ornamental gnome (found hidden in a radio station at the very beginning) throughout the entire game all while doing the challenges you face normally.

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Beautiful on the Inside

21st March, 2008

I was fixing my second year idat203 Negotiated Project (since moving it caused various hyperlinks to break, making viewing it in action pointless) when the flurry of discontented emails about the new i-dat website design started in the DAT forum (roughly around two hundred… million so far methinks).

So while testing my project I decided to see what it would make of the site, bearing in mind that the idea of this piece was to reveal what you aren’t meant to see in a website. This project will react to the quality of the underlying code in a site in the sense that it looks for individual words to fit into ever smaller spaces. Crap websites, ie. ones that haven’t been hand-coded but are rather churned out of some program like MS Word tend to clog up the project with huge chunks of code, which never get displayed. However humanly-readable, XHTML compliant sites, the sort that have had effort put into the coding side produce wonderful results like as can be seen in this example of the i-dat site:

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