Crit my site WIP please...
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- coldy0
thanks again guys, great feedback,
utopian - as far as a template, I may well release a very basic fla which uses Tim Wilsons pressconnect to receive XML from the database, from there its all dealing with XML which there is a vast amount of information out there about so thats probably as far as Id take it. If you mean a Template that you load into wordpress like you do with other WP css templates, thats a defitnite no, I wouldnt know where to start.
23kon - These are a few things Ive been thinking about, the intro animation is almost certainly going to change. And yes I kinda like the printed page/magazine style as well. As far as typefaces go, I think the cleanliness of the layout lends itself to clean sharp fonts, I dont know if distressed is the way to go. I think using distressed style (in a PF) can kinda bottleneck you, Id rather show good fundamental design skills in a portfolio site and let the work inside illustrate niche skills like distressed work. my opinion anyway.
Elfangio - my reasoning was initially to find a project to start learning Actionscipt 3 and OOP (as I was still coding AS2 all on the first frame). Then it was to see If I could replicate all of the functionality that a default WP installation has in flash, which Ive pretty much achieved, including page tracking, deeplinking, forward/back buttons.
The next step for me would be to build a more experimental visualisation of posts/comments/categories since yes at the moment, it kinda looks like it could have been done in html/css.
That and Im a flash designer, I hate cross browser compatibility, and thinking about how long its taken me I think its actually been quicker doing it in flash.- coldy, you should create a small business for flash blog templates, I have not seen any.utopian