Update: April 1st, 2008

Still building the website. Most of the flash components being used are almost done. The fun part about this project is I’m building everything to w3 standards, and there really isn’t a specific standard on embedding Flash files into a site.

A bit tricky, because Dreamweaver and Flash produces this “twice-baked” method which I read about at A List Apart, and reading more into including some other sites, I’ve decided to use a script that write the object or embed tag dependent on what browser you are using. Pretty neat, I didn’t come up with it, but it’s cool because it works! It just writes over a Div and if you don’t have Flash or Javascript enabled, you can set the Div to pull graphics or content you’d want to replace instead of the Flash file.

Anyhow, this seems to validate and works. The bad part is I also tried creating a dynamic background using Flash and CSS by positioning everything Absolutely, which isn’t being very consistent so I’ve given that up. (Dangit!) I’ll continue looking for a few different methods, but until then…regular plain gradient background and pattern.

Designing the site has been quite a project, since I haven’t produced anything for myself in a while. I still have to produce all the content, but I’m being so picky with every little detail for now. I’ll have to drop that attitude, and develop everything and come back in later to clean it up if I want to finish soon.  (or chug a few redbulls and stay up late nights!)

Okay, well I hope everyone is a having a good week so far, and I’ll be posting up some of my own artwork soon that I’ve started.