Website design
Thursday, November 13th, 2008This is what I’ve been busy with today:
A preview of the homepage portal coming soon..........
The bubbles you can see is an Actionscript coded in Flash CS3 (AS3) which simulates Brownian motion. Against a black background the particles move in a balletic motion, collide with each other, momentarily conjoin before they spring apart and progress to interact with other globules. With this white setting they appear as free bubbles which glide across the page.
With respect to the avatars, these were created in Photoshop using the circular rainbow tool followed by the circle cutting tool. With the exception of the tiger, the skull and the Sony UX1 all the other photos were taken by me during my travels — well, I figured I should try to make use of my own assets! Ha ha.
Tomorrow, I’m going to pool together a few Flash and Papervision3D samples I coded previously to use them to populate the pages indicated (brain, technology, books, business, art, food and travel). They’ll include:
* a custom built video gallery of the Pearl Awards 2007 where the guest of honor was HRH Prince of Wales (the organizer personally invited me; he’s now created a Chinese-European lifestyle site in conjunction with BSkyB and Shanghai Tang, a designer label)
* 3D film wall of Top 100 posters leading to the IMDB database
* Jacksphere of Jack D. Logan’s twines
* 3D flipbook of a film script
* fun puzzles, including a jigsaw based on the video library of Babelgum, an IPTV platform
At some point, I would also like to code a Flex time line like Google Finance’s:
* http://finance.google.com/finance?q=apple
Plus I’ll show you a Google Maps I’ve done of film locations. I wish there was a more straightforward way to send batch geo-codes and populate the map API more readily rather than one-at-a-time as it currently is. This is something I have raised previously with the Marketing Director of Google Maps when she was visiting from Switzerland. We’ll have to wait and see what happens there…….
Meanwhile I’ll be building up my little online time-space in between knitting Christmas pressies for my friends, writing the Google Knol entry on The Global Brain and planning where I’m going to spend New Year’s Eve (PARTY TIME!!!).