Wednesday, February 27, 2008

update

FSI prototype turned over to client programmer for setting up dynamic content, final adjustments will be made by me once all content is up.

Working on new project for small publishing company SolCor solutions: completed market research and client preferences/goals, two sketches provided:

http://www.rit.edu/~txswml/solcorsketch1.htm
http://www.rit.edu/~txswml/solcorsketch2.htm

the site is will be built through macbuilder.com which will allow client to easily upload content and format things in a word processing style editor.

Thursday, February 21, 2008

http://www.rit.edu/~txswml/rit737/finalproj/services.htm
-- replaced the company news with a scrolling ticker, added a scroll bar just in case the content is missed ( but would be nice to do something on mouseover or with flash so there is no ugly scroll bar). If the scroll bar is used the "slide"-divs get a bit messed up but the goal of the original scroller is to bring attention to this item. Also the scroller will pause on mouseover.

Tooltip

http://www.rit.edu/~txswml/rit737/finalproj/phoenix.htm
- Started to make a login form integrated into the page, but realized that it will need to be place in gibson to work. Going to do an include.
- Made a tooltip(s) that follow the pointer over an image map with javascript, some more graphical styling needed to get the look right. The various tooltips are variables in the script that sit inside divs that are styled with CSS.

Monday, February 18, 2008

It's a matter of Script

http://www.rit.edu/~txswml/rit737/finalproj/index.htm---Image rollover and dropdown menu. For rollovers the emphasis was on the photoshop while the dropdown menu was essentially styling combination of unordered lists within definition lists and use of javascript functions. The most painful part was trying to figure out how to make the dropdown stay in place and not effect elements around. Absolute positioning, taking the layer out of context of the document, was the solution. The only other thing to do is to code for when mouse event ends as the rollovers remain stationary.

http://people.rit.edu/~txswml/phpfun/
--- this form consists essentially of three scripts. The first to send information to the email address. The second to check whether required fields have been filled in and displaying appropriate messages on if the item has been sent/ or not. And the last was to make the form "sticky"-- if there is item of information missing the form will not reset and keep users' content and allow to fill in areas missing. The code has been implemented from PHP Solutions