Tag Archives: web design

My StomperNet Portal Design

Portal website design for StomperNet. Created to give digital access of subscription content: including video, pdf versions of print material (journal). I was responsible for the design of the front end of the site with valid html and css. I also designed the site logo and the graphics on the site. Was able to include [...]

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How to use fullscreen in AS3 | Stage Display State Tutorial

One of the best features of the flash player if you’re doing video is the fullscreen functionality. It has been a question I’ve heard repeatedly. There are limits to what you can do in fullscreen. Such as minimal keyboard support while in fullscreen. But it is perfect for a video player! Who doesn’t want to [...]

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Fullscreen in AS3 Tutorial | Plus Firefox Flash bug when enter fullscreen keyboard events fired

To view the full fullscreen tutorial go here: How to use fullscreen in AS3 | Stage Display State Tutorial Sucks when you seem to have a bug in your code somewhere so you dissect your code over and over and are convinced that according to your code, everything should be fine, so you come back [...]

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FormulaFIVE Launch from StomperNet is a go!

FormulaFIVE is here! The wait is over. FormulaFIVE is LIVE!

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How to as3 resize a movieClip and constrain proportions | Actionscript Tutorial

I’ve had that exact task numerous time while scripting actionscript. I have a source image loaded externally or a mc within the program and I need to fit it into a certain area (width x height) but keep the aspect ratio the same or as photoshop calls it “constrain proportions”. I’ve done this with fancy [...]

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asfunction (TextEvent.LINK) Tutorial for AS3 | Flash HTML Link to call actionscript function | Tutorial

Overview Earlier I wrote a tutorial article about asfunction in as2. Now that I’ m into as3, surprise surprise asfunction has been depreciated and now to replace it is the LINK TextEvent. Dispatched when a user clicks a hyperlink in an HTML-enabled text field, where the URL begins with “event:”. The remainder of the URL [...]

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StomperNet Strikes Again! with FormulaFIVE

StomperNet has been a ‘buzz’. After Andy’s ‘Mea Culpa‘ why wouldn’t it be… But this is so much better and bigger, learning many lessons from the last launch – StomperNet strikes again! Teamed up with Paul Lemberg a new product called FormulaFIVE (F5 for short). Just launched a video to excite the industry! So check [...]

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Circlecube Freshens Up … for you!

Thanks for your patience as I’ve been tinkering with the theme, layout and css of circlecube.com. I started with a free theme from Justin Tadlock, Options Theme, available at theme hybrid. I’ve changed that theme quite a bit, from restyling it to fixing bugs I found and updated many other things on the site as [...]

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Sally Kolar Photography

Sally, a great photographer in the Augusta, GA area wanted help putting up a website that was easy to maintain and looked professional. I helped her out and set her up with a wordpress install, some essential plugins and a few themes! She is ecstatic! Check out the site here: http://sallykolar.com/ and book her if [...]

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Interactive Image Viewer v1 @ FlashDen

I’ve re-purposed an old project of mine, the interactive pog portfolio viewer, to activeden. I call it the pog portfolio because each work is represented by a circle, or pog, and you play ith it in the “bay” with different interactive physics configurations. When you click a pog you can view a close up image [...]

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