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Monthly Archives: March 2010

Website Preflight Checklist

Monday, March 29, 2010

I am currently developing a quick and easy checklist for making sure that all webpages/ sites that get designed follow a sort of quality control and minimum standard. You can see the draft version(s) of this list over on Flickr Please give feedback on anything that I have missed or is wrong so that I [...]

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HTML 5 Video – Flash Fallback

Saturday, March 13, 2010

I am nearing completion of the flash player that I have been developing this week. You can take a look at it in my development sandpit. This is the fall back player for browsers such as ie that don’t currently support HTML5 Video tags. The next part of this project will extend to include the [...]

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52 Designs – Week 11

Friday, March 12, 2010

Week 11 is here. Only another 41designs or drawings to go. In case you haven’t figured it out already it’s all about designing every week. You can see what’s been added or join in yourself over on flickr. Here is my design for this week on Flickr.

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Flash Player Control Bar

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Part of creating a HTML5 Video player requires a fall back option for the likes of ie, so a flash player is the option. This is the design for the control panel on the flash player. The source and instructions for the flash player will follow on completion.

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Cross Platform Flash AS3 CD-ROM – Part 1

Monday, March 8, 2010

Having had some huge problems trying to get a cross platform CD to work correctly I decided to build a browser & platform detection function. Part 1 of the tutorial is all about detecting which platform you are on. Lets begin… var playerVersion:String = System.capabilities.version; var playerType:String = System.capabilities.playerType; var myLength:Number = length(playerVersion); var platform:String; [...]

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52 Designs – Week 10

Friday, March 5, 2010

Whoh! It’s week 10 of designing one piece a week, every week, all year. The more observant of you may have noticed that I didn’t do a design last week or the week before, which defeats the philosophy of the whole 52 Designs. Epic Fail? No! It’s not over yet though and there is no [...]

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