Completed IPGL Website

23rd March, 2009

In between university work, I’ve made a website for IPGL Limited, based on the design for Matt Wreford’s personal website.

View the IPGL site.

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Scripting for Digital Media

25th October, 2008

I think I’ve finally decided on what to produce following Nigel’s criteria for the Scripting for Digital Media module. I’ve spent today writing some Actionscript functions that I know will be required, for example a number wrapping function so that I can use it in several instances to loop around something, most likely an Array.

My idea however is to finally fill in the actionscript space I’ve left aside at the top of my website, which was supposed to contain nice dynamic content.

Back for the Final Year

1st October, 2008

The introduction of two different modules was covered today, the 6,000 to 10,000 word Dissertation (PRID301) and the Programming for Entertainment Systems (SOFT 323).

Geoff Cox mentioned that keeping a blog for reflection on the process behind producing the dissertation was a good idea, so I think it is time to start creating a few new Categories and portfolio areas!

Additionally, I really ought to structure my portfolio a bit better so that I can hold a range of some of my industrial level work as well as continue showcasing i-Dat as this site was originally intended.

Finished Matt Wreford Site

12th September, 2008

I have completed the production and implementation of a new site design for Matt Wreford, which can now be viewed on the website at http://www.mattwreford.com/, with only a few significant changes to my initial idea.

I have based the site on WordPress, using it as a Content Management System allowing for the quick adding of portfolio entries and amendments.

Essentially the pages have been used for each section with their own templates, and posts can be categorised so that they will fall into each of the three portfolio sections and with a bit of PHP will display in the right portfolio page.

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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.

Adding Multibox

24th August, 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

Shop Product Category Images

25th July, 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.

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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