Mapping – Thoughts behind it. =(

I have not gotten around to updating this blog over the past few days or so due to the amount of information I need to digest to get my interface to a working ’state’. Mind you, I was expecting the process to be straightforward with Flash and its Actionscript function. But it turned out that I completely underestimated it and not to mention hitting straight-on at a brickwall every-so-often.

The troubles that I have faced over the course of working on the mapping brief and at the same time creating a website for it was…extremely challenging. To put it mildly. Because I was working with the projects on different Flash files, I thought when finished exporting the completed piece to another would be a dead-on straightforward job; like exporting an image and importing onto the other. The whole ‘loadMovie’ function on the Actionscript made me go round-and-round in circles, not to mention futile efforts on searching for the right solutions and putting it into use and not working It was frustrating on so many levels.

But for the sake of references, I’ll put a few that I thought helped me outt:

Adobe ‘loadMovie’ Function Help

Loading Extenal Swf – Method A

External SWF Preloading – Method B

Position Loaded Movie

Launching a Pop-Up Window

Embedding Flash While Supporting Standard
(I hope the above links help someone who was struggling with loading an external SWF into a current file.)

There are times where I found myself doing something overly complicated whereas I’m sure there are tons of easier approach to it. I would love to list all of the sites that I stumbled across but there is simply way too many of them. But at the end of the day, was it worth all the blood and sweat? (Okay, maybe I’m just exaggerating on the ‘blood’ bit)

I would say maybe. Making a website is a lot harder than I expected. When there is a lack of proper guidance around, it is tough. but both the mapping and the site has been finished. It is by no means a masterpiece but here is the final piece.

Better late than never…!

I am quite aware at the fact that the due for the second part of this module was due sometime back on 10th of October, it is a pity I never got around to upload the finished sets of typography but here it is:

702 - H&C

‘702 – (Handle and Cap)’ – The font is made out of the cap for which you speak into, screwed onto the receiver of the phone; along with the metallic handle in which could be found on the top of the phone itself.

AND…

702 - R&C

‘702 – (Receiver and Cord)’ – Self-explanatory, font made by arranging the telephone receiver and the cord into the alphabet itself.

Hardly a practical fonts but there you go, pieced out from the set guidelines from the brief.

Basic Field-Guide to Rotary Phone

Here is the finished field-guide to the selected object, as requested by the brief. The outcome of this field-guide is somewhat different to what was being planned earlier. But regardless, it is exactly what the title suggests – basic.

Field Guide to Rotary Phone