today i was stuck on my site, so I practiced for the test, observe...

March 18

I don't know what time this period ends so i'll be updating as I go insted of running out of time at the end.

Made the ice transparent. Maybe a bit too much. I'll look at it tomorrow and see if I still like it.

Added some information to the bio page.

Added shadows to the bio page

w00t

YAY! I thought up a way to combine my website into one page and it worked! I had a little problem with the buttons but you (if the person reading this is indeed Mr. Fitzer) helped me out with that, so I now have a combined and linked site, complete with fancy buttons! now I need text to put on my pages work on the music, and... that's about it. I should figure out how to upload pictures for my portfolio too.

(below)The comleted and sorted page

my newly animated stars along with words on my buttons.

March 06

I'm pleased with the progress I made today, after watching you do the preloader tutorial it reminded me of how to fix the problems I have been having with my project. So today I finished all of my animation on the first page of my site, so that and my preloader are done. Now that I know what to do the bio and portfolio pages should fall into place in good order. After that I just have to figure out how to put all the pages together and link them.

art for my bio, still no words yet...

art for my portfolio page

my bell jingles!

My river which now shifts instead of being a solid blue path

My completed preloader in all of its masked glory

So far I’ve gotten a lot of artwork done for my site but I’m having trouble with the actual interactivity and such of it. I’m still not sure how to merge all my files together and I’m also having issues with some of the background animation, particularly the stars, which are a feature of every page. I’m also stuck on the text for my site, everything I come up with sounds flat and boring, which is kind of the opposite of the point of the project. On the other hand every time I come up with something good sounding it seems like bragging which I refuse to do. Overall I’ve fallen into a bit of a funk and my inspiration levels are way down, so while I started out strong I’ve kind of died halfway through. I need to find something to wake me up and get me back into fighting shape. Maybe small fuzzy animals are the key? Well tomorrows a new day, maybe I’ll be better then.
-HRM Nicholas Jonothan Major XII

Portfolio update

Today I think I got essentially done with the artwork for my site. I've started animating parts of it but I realized I need to move all my art into one file, but i'm not sure how to do that. I probabbly need to write up some text for my site too, I wonder what I should put on my bio...Oh well, i'll figure it out eventually.