Friday, 30 April 2010

Thinking about displaying projects within the portfolio

Looking into flash, i've noticed some difficulties in displaying previous .swf projects within a swf porfolio. Flash is still my preferred program to create the portfolio as i find it a more malleable method of displaying my work without having to constrain it to tricky to control html table layouts and less animation and interaction possibilities. It is the preferred method for design web portfolios that i've seen and also my favourite web portfolios have all been flashed based. However, although it is technically possible to 'call' a previous project within a window of the portfolio, it is complicated, and there is also the problem of it looking strange. What i thought of doing is having it pop out, and instead having a screenshot. This would mean that the page loads faster (if published) and it would only call the popup data if clicked, but it would also mean that a user could keep the popup windows open to compare the final projects easily.

When using flash i did make considerations about web publishing and decided on my page dimensions this way. I decided on 800X400. The finished flash portfolio is meant to be one-page and not scrollable so essentially what you seee is what you get.

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