LUCY: Website complete!

Lucy's website has been one of the most exciting, rewarding and challenging projects I've worked on to date.

Not only has it been a great chance for me to express myself and my skills, it's also been great to create a website for someone I care a lot about and deliver something of high quality to the end user.

I've managed to create 2 flash MP3 players, video content, a banner, a gallery and an interactive side bar with links to twitter, facebook and myspace. Along side this, I've developed two databases where Lucy can update her own personal blog and a space where she can post up all her upcoming gigs. Not only can she do this, but she can also edit and delete every post and add a photograph alongside her blog entries - quite a brilliant accessory to keep herself and her fans up-to-date on her progress.

I've also included a Twitter feed onto her home page where fans can access the site and get an instant update without having to access her blog first.

This is the first website I've created which uses Flash AND PHP, MySql together. They have worked very well together and their seamless interaction benefits are going to be very beneficial to Lucy's promotion.

Overall, I'm overly happy with how this project has gone and I'd rate it the best website I've made, so far.

The next step is to create the login page and get Lucy to check over it all to make sure everything is how she wants it.

http://www.kidinacandystore.co.uk/lucyward/index.html

LUCY: Flash MP3, Banner and Photos

If you click on the photo, you'll be able to see the latest design ideas I have for Lucy's website.

The MP3 player was entirely made by myself using photoshop and flash with action script.

I've created a DIV with a background image which includes the pins, and then created a DIV inside that with the Flash content, making it look as though it's a single image. I've also done this with the "Lucy Ward" title banner.

By using action script 3, I've been able to create a simple music player that can player up to 4 external songs, with skip feature, play/pause and volume control.

Where the photographs are on the right hand side, it is infact a flash banner, where the user rolls over each photo and some information is displayed about Lucy herself.

Future design ideas:
I want to create another box above or below the main content text area in the centre to include either a regular twitter feed or her latest video news. This may be an area where I can include my PHP database.

I created an interactive banner for the LG phone, GW520. I used the current advertising promotional colours and branding to create a banner in-line with their promotion.

It's fairly standard and some of the design decisions I made look ok, but there's too much going on, too quickly.

Not bad for a quick exercise.

Original promotional video:

LUCY: Project application and design

Brief 2 states that we need to create a website for an artist or organisation. This is no more than the perfect opportunity for me to finish off the website I started creating for Lucy as a project.

This way I'll get marked on work I produced outside of Uni and I can get feedback and create the site as professionally as possible.

I have to include 3 interactive Flash elements and a PHP MySQL database profile page.

At the moment, I've managed to get the whole basic template of the site online and the first flash element included. However, as the flash has to be interactive, I am unsure as to whether or not this is possible to use.

I am currently going to start designing the flash MP3 music player that will set in the menu section. I'm also hoping to have the side pictures revolving and use video through Flash as well.

Carphone Warehouse - UNI Mobile

I've finally finished my website project.

Here's the website I've made for UNI Mobile as part of a promotional offer from the Carphone Warehouse store in Nottingham.

UNI Mobile is a fictional company I've made as an illustration purpose. The Carphone Warehouse store in Nottingham, however, is real and therefore fits in with the retail establishment as stated in the brief.

I have used CSS, Flash, Javascript and HTML to create the website. I'm very pleased with how it's turned out. The colours are very eye catching and the site is simple to use and serves its purpose.

My Box - Flash Creation

Flash Box by ~sammarshall20 on deviantART

Here is the beginning of my flash box. My next step is to learn how to create a button so the box opens, only when you click the handle (which i also need to create!)

But this is just so show the simple idea I have so far.

As you can see, I took the same sort of design of the box I found on google in the post below, but I've built this box entirely myself in Photoshop and implemented it into flash. I prefer to frontal view and I think it will help me a lot when it comes to putting virtual objects inside it.

Flash Fury!

Much to my annoyance, I spent hours working on Flash trying to figure out audio settings, yet I just can't get my head around how to make the music stop after each frame.
Instead of submitting my work late, I have removed the audio from the narrative and compacted the Flash Project into a .SWF and .HTML file for submission.

I am not pleased!

Flash Narrative Progression

After our seminar which was moved to Friday, I've started worknig on my Flash Narrative project!!

Even though it's very simple and the photos I've taken aren't that creative, I think my Flash Narrative is awesome! Especially to say I've NEVER even seen Adobe Flash CS3 before and only really started planning this project a few days ago due to all the stressing with my essay.

I will hopefully come back and add some music to the narrative once I've edited it. I'll be adding cheesey music to the Primark scene, cooler music to the River Island scene, and more sort of rappy or RnB music to the JD scene. This will make it more diverse.

Project is due in next Thursday and if I handed it in now, I'd still be very pleased with it!