This site contains
references to useful things for Web developers. It serves as an archive
for the blog, The Web
Curmudgeon.
The organization and styling of the site are a work in progress. The
site should achieve its final form by the beginning of the summer of
2010 or 2011.
In the meantime, it's up in this sort-of beta form because...well,
because it's free
on Google.
THE
CURMUDGEON'S PORTFOLIO
Anne's Archives,
a complete Flash Web site for an SBCC Adult Ed instructor.
This is
actually a mixed site, as the file uploading and downloading aspects
are PHP/HTML-based. Otherwise it is all Flash, with an XML/PHP/MySQL
back end.
The site features a registration page hooked up to a MySQL database by
means of a PHP script.
Lectures are archived in PDF format, downloadable from the
"Writing" page.
The site also interlinks to a Google blog on the subject of
books recommended by the instructor.
On
the "Writing" page, click on "MP3" in the archive of lectures. You will
be taken to the single lecture that I recorded for the site.
(I
really must make an effort to record more.) The player is hand-crafted
from graphical primitives, made functional by Actionscript. It uses no
Flash components.
The SOHOSB Events Calendar,
a Flash-based calendar featuring popups of events. I made a second
Web-based, Flash application to enter the content for the days and for
the popups. I also made a small
Flash form for this site for the club newsletter.
The JetAir Request for Quote Form
is a Flash-based Web form hooked up to a PHP script that, in turn,
generates emails sent to the sales department of the company. This was
a great project, because it was an extraordinarily demanding one,
especially suited to Flash. The form must pack a lot of functionality
and content into a small amount of page real estate. This is
essentially accomplished with popups confined to the space of
the
flash movie. It is also interactive, serving up questions based on the
answers to other questions.
The Cinch-O-Matic,
a PHP mail form script generator. You enter the URL of a Web page
containing a mail form, fill in a few details, then press a button to
download a finished PHP script to process the form.
Other little tidbits include the menu
at the top of this page, my first Flash 9 project. This menu looks to
see which of the pages lies below, and then configures itself
accordingly. A partially completed AS3 site is here.This
site contains a video player that gets a video from a social site, and
plays it. It also contains a number of animated poems, coded in
AS3. Clinical
Compliance Concepts,
is a specialty medical
organization. The content is all external to the site. The XML is
located here.
This otherwise plain-vanilla site features my favorite Web form, made
from a
picture of a fire alarm. On this site, the I
Just Want To Flash tutorials are demonstratons of
Actionscript 3.