Archive for the ‘Flash’ Category
Merry Christmas from Scriptic December 26th, 2010
Backward Santa
Hello all, a day late I know but here’s my Christmas Post. After a hellish journey involving 40 odd hours on a variety of Coaches, Trains, Cars and Boats I finally arrived in Chelm, Poland yesterday at around 5. Just in time for Christmas dinner – and after all that I didn’t even get a white Christmas – which I was under the impression I was gauranteed of when I’m practically in Siberia. Never mind.
Anyway, since I haven’t done any post worthy work of late I’ve been digging through the archives once again and found this Christmassy game which I made as an e-christmas card for an agency I was working for some years ago (hence the branding).
This is so old I havent bothered posting the source files – I have no idea what version of Flash it was built in but it’s certainly AS1 – if you want them, however, just let me know.
Anyway – once again have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
EMC xCP Documentum October 26th, 2010
www.emc.com/xcp
Another dry spell there, I really need to get back in the posting habit. Maybe with the evenings drawing in it’ll be easier. Anyway, here’s something new – A Flash micro site to promote EMC’s xCP Documentum software. The site is built for Flash player 9.0 and is coded in Actionscript 3.0.
There’s all sorts of delights going on in the background and this was a great site to do to get my Flash skills back up to scratch – the content is all driven by an XML back end, from links and assets (images, videos etc.), to the site copy. This meant all the content areas and buttons had to be expandable (to a point at least, I could only be as flexible as the design). This also meant that the language of the site could be easily changed allowing for roll out in multiple countries. By setting a language variable in the XML the flash movie will dynamically load in and embed the correct font and character set (using a class written by my predecessor at The Crocodile).
The site also uses the excellent SWFAddress JavaScript library by Asual to control deep linking meaning all sections of the site can be externally linked to and the browser navigation can be used.
Finally the ‘Solutions’ section has a cover flow system created with Papervision3D.
This was a pretty hardcore re-introduction to Flash after a long absence but it was kind of fun to build and really allowed me to expand my Flash skills so all well worthwhile.
Hopefully the next Scriptic installment will be something downloadable and scripty as I only seem to post websites these days. Untill then bye bye!
Flash Notice Maker May 17th, 2010
Evening all – since it’s been a while since i posted (busy busy – Mayday Network Phase II in full swing) – I thought i’d have a trawl through the archives and see what I could find. Here’s what I came up with, a Flash notice maker I made for a client a few months ago (quickly re-branded 
).
This one’s AS3 and can be used to create notices while maintaining the corporate format. Put in your title and body copy (the text will resize to fit), hit print and out of your printer will pop a beautifully formatted notice, corporate font and colours intact, in a handy, print friendly A4. It also adds a little ‘created on…’ tag to try and avoid out of date notices floating about everywhere.
Here’s the file – usual rules apply – credit me if you’re feeling generous. And if you feel like improving it (I’ll hold my hands up – the text resize can be a little fiddly) do so and send me the file.
Mayday Network site launch April 19th, 2010
www.maydaynetwork.com
This week, after a month of hard work, late nights and gnashing of teeth, The Mayday Network website finally went live. A social network aimed at businesses who want to reduce their carbon footprint and do other good environmentally things, the site is entirely built and updated in Drupal. The website was designed by Anywhichway and I was responsible for initial front end template build and subsequent Drupal theming.
The site, currently in phase 1, has member profiles, news feeds and events listings with member sign up functionality. It’s main draw at this stage is ‘The Journey’ a tool that helps guide members, step by step, through their own ‘low carbon journey’. Members are able to tick off steps as they go and periodically upload stories of their progress for other users to see.
A great deal was acheived in a short time here so well done to everyone involved and thanks for putting in the hours .
Flash countup / countdown February 2nd, 2010
It’s February, and if i’m not mistaken a little milder. So with that and other positive thoughts in mind here’s a constant reminder of the age of this blog (at the time of writing pretty new), and therefore the age of its creator – me (at the time of writing not) in the form of a Flash (AS2) countup. Slowly ticking off the seconds into oblivion.
The files are here so download them and get counting, the possibilties are endless - as long as they're in some way related to counting.
UPDATE: Due to popular demand here are the files in CS3 format...
