Annoying CSS

21st October, 2007

Having completely exhausted a search for floating some images at the bottom right hand corner of a variably sized <div> and deciding this was impossible I came up with half a solution involving a normal float RIGHT <div> that cleared a second, hidden floating <div>, the height of which COULD have been determined by the overall height of the containing <div>. But it wasn’t great, and text would wrap very poorly around the images, cutting into the padding and margins. Using EM on the buffer’s height meant I could make it vaguely change in line with textsize changes but generally it looked crap and was different in every browser.

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Page Design

22nd August, 2007

A preview of the my first freelance project before starting my placement with Neovirtua.

Freelance Project

9th August, 2007

Seems I have found a bit of a freelance job to do creating a page design for a website aimed at buyers and sellers of houses. Best get brainstorming on some designs and reading up on vector graphics!

Other Stuff

Always interesting to look through for inspiration – Computer Arts Tutorials

4th August

4th August, 2007

Following the creation of a sort of aviary enclosure for the dovecote, and the subsequent danger of cats managing to get over the top, plans for a higher and improved part on top were made. Only they couldn’t work out what angle the frame uprights for the top section would lean at. I was posed the trigonometric puzzle and instead of trying to remember GCSE maths I simply went back to my MSN convo which happened to contain two maths students, one attending UCL and the other Bath University.

Needless to say I got a quick and easy answer by simply drawing a triangle and labelling some lengths using the Handwriting Tool usually reserved for drawing moronic pictures. But afterwards a thought occured to me that maybe, like the really boring app I made for AI and matrices and vectors I could make one for working out any angle or length of a triangle if you provide some others.

So there we are, a flash challenge to complete before I start a placement. http://www.clarku.edu/~djoyce/trig/oblique.html

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Site Progress

6th June, 2007

So I’ve got a Home, Journal and About page all reasonably the same style so now its time to tackle the portfolio area.

Hmmm, so. Two year’s worth of i-Dat coursework and a complete mess of folders/urls online. And as well as that, I never really got around to arranging some of my artwork into a decent section of its own which I always wanted. Therefore I went about unearthing old sketchbooks and the likes and took a few photos to edit to size.

On another note I have become more and more appreciative of the pen tool in Flash. Originally my flash pieces would be based on the theory that if actionscript couldn’t animate it, then I’d import my graphics as raw photoshop PSD files. But vector stuff is simply more cool.

Mixed Day

5th May, 2007

Ok, so its my brother’s 18th birthday which means that instead of revising for the AI exam I have plenty of distractions.

Some good news in the form of our idat205 Eden Game has been uploaded to the Eden Project’s website, and has been featured in a BBC news press release!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cornwall/6629765.stm

New Website Design in production

Meanwhile I am working to produce a new website design, which I am happy fulfils every intricate criteria I am striving for, and replace the current site which was a result of mashed together previous attempts with the aim of trying to keep everything active. So essentially EVERYTHING needs to be replaced and unified. This is of course while I am heating up the search for a placement.

Other Stuff

Seems relevant to the impacts of digital media as studied in idat203 –
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6627135.stm

Eden Game Project Thoughts

6th February, 2007

Some Ideas for Game Formats

The games produced by Eyemaze are visually intriguing logic puzzles and I can see how such a mini-narrative puzzle might be applied to a crops and global warming story.

In particular, take a look at growcube,http://www.eyezmaze.com/grow/cube/index.html

Because we needed to know for research, and it was damn difficult to find when I searched, the correct order for growcube is: guy, water, plants, pot, tube, fire, bowl, bone, ball and spring.

eCo

22nd January, 2007

eCo

Is the name for our environmentally aware software and web design company, the task for which is to design an online interactive game for Eden Project. Nice and round shape to it I think (the word and capitalisation of the ‘C’), lending itself to a nice glassy spherical icon logo.

soft221

Handed soft221 coursework in at last, and now onto the final essay. It makes one wish http://dack.com/web/bullshit.html was a bit more comprehensive… Soft 221 work can be seen here, but try using firefox or IE6 for this rather than IE7, unless of course you have specifically re-allowed java applets to be run.