Posted on August 24th, 2009 in Projects, Tech, Video, Web.
Built using: Flash CS3 and ActionScript 3
Based on: ‘Flash video template: Dynamic video playlist‘
Video Player Demo Page
Version dev.3
This version brings the Flash Player even closer to complete. The sharing options in the right pane are now all functional as originally planned. The email button pops up a form that asks the user for their name, email address, and a friend’s email address and emails the current video that the user is watching to their friend’s email address. The link button pops up a form that displays the current video’s URL along with a copy button that copies the URL onto the user’s clipboard for them to paste elsewhere.
Small bug fix:
Links no longer return null link values.
I am going to do some more testing on the flash player itself to make sure there that no more bugs exist on the player and then working towards creating a control panel for the flash player to make maintenance easy. It will include the ability to upload videos and tag them with content tags. Those content tags will be used to generate related video reels for all of your videos. The control panel will also eliminate the need to update any XML by hand, streamlining the process of adding videos to the player. If you find any bugs in the flash player leave the bug below in the comments section.
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Posted on August 8th, 2009 in Projects, Tech, Video, Web.
Built using: Flash CS3 and ActionScript 3
Based on: ‘Flash video template: Dynamic video playlist‘
Video Player Demo Page
Version dev.2
UI bugs addressed:
UI panels no longer stop mid-animation.
UI panels no longer stick on screen.
Adjusting the seek bar no longer causes the bottom UI panel to stay visible.
Cursor no longer flashes when placing it between related videos thumbnails.
Plans for Version dev.3
The next release of the player will address the sharing options of the player. Email and link options will pop up a new window within the flash player that will allow the user to fill out a form to send the video to a recipient (email) or display the videos URL along with a copy to clipboard button (link). The video player will also be updated with the ability to link to a specific video in the playlist so that you can share the single video you want to share as opposed to the entire playlist. After dev.3, focus will turn to building an administration panel in PHP to allow for easier control of the video playlist. Once the administration panel is completed, the player will be packaged and released for general use.
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Posted on August 7th, 2009 in Projects, Web.
Rock School Website
I believe this site was put together back in mid-March. Most information on the pages were static and didn’t need to be updated much so the site does not utilize any content management system. To make it easier for the client to make future updates I split up the files into small sections to make them easier for a normal person to digest and put them all together using PHP files that gather up all the pieces for display. The “page” that gets update most frequently is the “Latest Updates” column. Updates to that are made simple to do by only needing to copy and paste some outline HTML code into the latest updates HTML file and fill in the rest. All elements are named and commented sufficiently enough for updates to remain simple and self-explanatory. The site has since been turned over to the client and reflects not only my own work, but also the updates made by the client over the past few months as well. Site designed with Omar Mejia who was also behind the Rock School’s new logo displayed on the top left of the site.
ForThoseAboutToRockSchool.com sample:
Yoga Studio Website
A very simple website with quick-to-access information and a lot of impact, MYWStudio.net was designed by Omar Mejia and then turned over to me for implementation. Before getting to work on turning the photoshop files into living renditions of CSS and HTML, I made small edits to the site to make it into a more searchable and SEO friendly website. This site is definitely one of the more lightweight designs I have implemented and it was fun working with the design to make it even lighter on load times and file sizes. Due to the lightweight and fairly static nature of the content on the pages, future updates on this project will be straightforward.
MYWStudio.net sample:
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