Site Progress

Phew! What a crazy week. Going from Illustrator to Dreamweaver/Flash is an unpredictable process! I have to say, the problems I was expecting were easily overcome, and the things I thought would be easy took forever. The Flash stuff was really fun and I plan to flush that out a lot more next week. Hopefully I'll have some city sounds going on, as well as a few Shakespeare inspired sound bytes when you click around. The HTML section has been simple to develop so I hope to have a few more pages done by next week. Something I am excited about doing is a Form. I have never done one before so I think that will be fun to try and incorporate. I've gotten through about 3 pages so far, and I am still finessing a lot of details here and there. I've put a link below so you can see where I am at currently.

Click here to view current Prototype (work in progress)
(the "About" and "Media" pages are working links. Also be sure to click on the images in the gallery to see the javascript work!)

There are a few lingering problems that I am aware of. The biggest one, something I should have realized before I started is the window size. Right now, the website is approx 1280 x 890 pixels. This is fine when you have the luxury to be on a 23inch monitor, but for laptops (that are mostly running at 1280 x 800) you cannot see the bottom of the page. For now, I've re-enabled the scroll bars, but I want to site to hide these so it really feels like a mini site. When I do this, and the monitor size is too small, you cannot view the rest of the page. Right now, the fix is just having the scroll bars back, but next week I am going to reformat the whole thing to fit in a smaller window so I can eliminate the scroll bar functionality and have it look really clean.