Uni portfolio site

[Jimp]

Sooooo I needed a portfolio for my Uni Application. I dont think I even needed to make it yet, but at least now it is out of the way, and I can still add to it.

I asked the tutors at the unis I visited what they would be looking for in portfolios, and mostly they said things that will show I have "a creative side", as well as technical ability.

I am applying for 2 different courses, Animation and Interactive Media Production.

Anyway, I would be grateful if people told me what they think, and tell me if anything doesnt work properly, or even make suggestions. I will probably add more stuff to it in time, cos at the moment its only flash work and photos... Oh yeah, also the "Me" page isnt done yet.

Portfolio (http://www.tbwse.com/portfolio/)

EDIT: Link fixed.

[Templarian]

http://www.tbwse.com/portfolio/ <your link has a " after it.

Very nice work on the site. Gets the cartoon look and professional feel all in one. Love the transitions and main nav.

[Jimp]

http://www.tbwse.com/portfolio/ <your link has a " after it.

Very nice work on the site. Gets the cartoon look and professional feel all in one. Love the transitions and main nav.

Ah yes, sorry about that!

Ideally the menu rollover buttons would be smoother, but I cant increase the framerate as all of the loaded movies use 24 fps... If anyone has a way around that it would be appriciated, although Im not too worried about it.

[AndyM103]

yeah - it's very good (better than I could probably do!)

[glosrfc]

A couple of improvements you might wish to consider:

1. Go here www.kirupa.com/developer/flash8/flash_fix.htm to learn how to get around the "click to activate" problem.

2. Consider implementing a listener to detect if the mousewheel is used on your scrolling text.

3. When you mouseover the animation, the subsequent effect is obscured by the hand cursor, which is a shame. Consider setting useHandCursor to false within the rollover or changing the animations so that it appears above, rather than below, the line.

Other than that, a nice looking site - well done.

[MrMass]

me and statement takes you to the same place...I think me should be home :) and statement should be mission...darker color of blue wouldnt hurt somewhere...email address and post address is very hard to see, and it should be linked to mailto: at least email...complete site should be centered with div...good job!

[hybrid101]

now this is a cool site:D good job mate:thumb:
maybe lighten the blues a bit though. i think it's too dark. other than that, i absolutely love it;)

[Jimp]

A couple of improvements you might wish to consider:

1. Go here www.kirupa.com/developer/flash8/flash_fix.htm (http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash8/flash_fix.htm) to learn how to get around the "click to activate" problem.

Ah yes... I dont have the latest version of IE on this PC so it wasnt a problem for me, but it is damn annoying so I think I will implement that.




3. When you mouseover the animation, the subsequent effect is obscured by the hand cursor, which is a shame. Consider setting useHandCursor to false within the rollover or changing the animations so that it appears above, rather than below, the line.

Im not quite sure what you mean, are you talking about the rollover animations on the main nav bar?



me and statement takes you to the same place...I think me should be home :) and statement should be mission...

yeah as I said, I havent done the Me page yet, but that will be fixed.


email address and post address is very hard to see, and it should be linked to mailto: at least email

Ok, ive fixed that now!



...complete site should be centered with div...good job!

This is something I couldnt work out how to do... I suck at html, any tuts anywhere?


Thanks LOOOOADs for the help guys!! :beer:

[glosrfc]

Yes, I mean the rollover animations on the main navigation bar - they're obscured by the hand cursor when you roll over them :(

[MrMass]

sure open dreamweaver create a new table 1/1 and input your flash inside of that table...now go to the source code and you will see somethign like this

<body>
<table width="200" border="2">
<tr>
<td><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0" width="550" height="400">

replace the

<body>
<table width="200" border="2">

with this instead

<BODY BGCOLOR=#000000 LEFTMARGIN=0 TOPMARGIN=0 MARGINWIDTH=0 MARGINHEIGHT=0>
<table width="100%" height="100%" align="center">

save and open the html in the broswer...ah cool its centered :)

[Jimp]

sure open dreamweaver create a new table 1/1 and input your flash inside of that table...now go to the source code and you will see somethign like this



Hmmm... Doesnt seem to be working...

Here is my index.html code:



<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

<title>James Pearmain</title>

<style type="text/css">
<!--
body {
background-color: #4D6185;
}
-->
</style></head>


<BODY BGCOLOR=#000000 LEFTMARGIN=0 TOPMARGIN=0 MARGINWIDTH=0 MARGINHEIGHT=0>
<table width="100%" height="100%" align="center">
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="middle">

<div align="center">
<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0" width="800" height="600" title="Portfolio">
<param name="movie" value="portfolio.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<embed src="portfolio.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="800" height="600"></embed>
</object>
</div></td></tr>
</table>

</body>

</html>

[MrMass]

works perfectly :)

http://www.mrmass.com/testing/


thats your html code, see its centered no matter how big is the broswer..me I have a big resolution and this code puts your flash movie right in the center of it...

the only thing missing is your movie which I dont have...

[Jimp]

works perfectly :)

http://www.mrmass.com/testing/


thats your html code, see its centered no matter how big is the broswer..me I have a big resolution and this code puts your flash movie right in the center of it...

the only thing missing is your movie which I dont have...

Hmm thats wierd... I copy and pasted the source from that page and it works fine now... Odd!

Anyway who cares, it works :D Cheers man!

[Jimp]

Ive just thought of one more thing which I would like to change... How do you get it so when you right click on the flash area, it gets rid of all the "zoom in" options and such? Ive never known how to do that, but its something I should learn how to do...

[MrMass]

add the following under your flash movie

<param name="menu" value="false" />
<param name="quality" value="best">

so it will be

<div align="center">
<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0" width="800" height="600" title="Portfolio">
<param name="movie" value="portfolio.swf" />
<param name="menu" value="false" />
<param name="quality" value="best">
<embed src="portfolio.swf" quality="best" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="800" height="600"></embed>
</object>

email link...

you need to create a button out of that and add this to it

on (release) {
getURL("mailto:jimp.uk@gmail.com");
}

since there is contact form :)

[Jimp]

Awesome, cheers man, that help is really appreciated! :flower:

[paddy.]

The site is pretty good. What's bothering me is the frame rate of the animations. It seems as though you're animating at 12fps which is way too slow and choppy. Up it to 24fps and you'll have much smoother animations.

Good work though. I love the style of the animations.

[Jimp]

No im using 24fps... It does seem a bit choppy, I guess that must be lag... I dont really know what to do about that though, the animations run fine when they arent loaded onto the site...