Website Design & Development
Website Design & Development is quite simply putting it all together.
Website Design & Development is quite simply putting it all together.
Flash CS4, CS3 & Flash 8. Actionscript 3.0 & 2.0. Timeline & Actionscript based flash animation. Manipulating & encoding Flash Video. Client / server communication. Working with external content such as .xml, .css, .html, .text, .mp3, .mp4, .flv, etc. JavaScript integration. OOP Design. Version Control (SVN).
Actionscript Libraries: Tweener, TweenLite, TweenMax, Google Analytics.
I have a very keen eye for detail and use both Adobe Photoshop and the Flash IDE for manipulating and creating images and effects.
I have extensive experience with using 'best practice' JavaScript libraries such as the JQuery-Address and Google Analytics for tracking statistics on full flash sites.
More recently I have started to look at JQuery and straight hand-coded JavaScript and have had the pleasant surprise to discover it is almost identical to Actionscript.
I use a mixture of Notepad++ and Firefox, Firebug / Web Developer to hand-code W3C compliant XHTML 2.0, CSS. More recently I have moved away from strict XHTML 2.0 coding towards HTML5 which has opened up many new directions in which to take web design.
It’s all well and good creating state-of-the-art websites which look amazing on your brand new state-of-the-art notebook, but what about Tim Berners-Lee's original vision for a universally accessible web?
Progressive Enhancement is to view web design from the ground up, rather than from the top down. Instead of building a state-of-the-art website and adding alternative versions for old browsers, create websites which everyone can access and add your state-of-the-art graphics on top. This way everyone will be able to access your site.
I use the SWFObject to embed all my flash into websites which allows for alternative content to be provided for browsers without flash. If the site is a full flash site then this content should be the same content as is being displayed within flash so that flash is merely another level of styling to progressively enhance the content. The advantage of this being that both visitors with and without flash will see the same content. This includes the googlebot and any other search engine robots.
I also use the SWFAddress for flash and more recently the JQuery-Address for JavaScript, both of which enable deep-linking into flash or JavaScript websites.
Google Analytics allows me to compile statistics on any deep-links as well as anything else I track.
I am very good at troubleshooting & problem solving, and in a past life I worked in a Senior IT Support role and had an MCSE/MCP + Internet, both of which have given me the confidence and ability to know I am able to achieve anything I put my mind to.