Can result in the perception, amongst others, that you have lost it due to the fact you're sat in a room on your own swearing loudly. However it is awesome when you get it right. After half a day of aforementioned swearing interspersed with tutorials and reading forum posts by geeks patronising non-geeks I managed to get a small but important piece of actionscript to do exactly what I wanted it to do which felt pretty rewarding.
I have the front end of my site almost completely done now after a massive scare that I would have to start from scratch as my images just looked too small (I will remedy this by creating a mini 5 frame movie clip from each piece of work showing zoomed in and zoomed out sections, the image itself will be a button which will link to the larger version on my flickr site so if the user finds the small size a problem they will go to click on the image, as is the convention set by many other sites and be able to view the document at the biggest size it can be displayed at - this may also encourage them to explore the other images on my flickr which is an added bonus).
I now need to:
-address the problematic images
-create thumbnails as white vector outlines
-import from indesign to flash
-animate and actionscript, add hyperlinks
-test on people to see if it is intuitive
-tie up loose ends
-do up blog with new identity
-sort flickr out, take off images that aren't mine or get new account.
-create CV pdf and find out how and where to host
-sort out search terms, meta tags etc
-sort out hosting
-sort out domain name
This seems like alot of work and I am anticipating that the actionscripting will take longer than I hoped it would so with that in mind I will set myself the goal of having the site finished as a working .SWF before xmas leaving ample time for the rest to be sorted.
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