I am really excited to have a guest author, Kelly Johnson, write some tutorials on the site. Kelly is currently the head video guru in the medical division at the University of Utah, and an amazingly talented motion designer. I’ve asked him to write some beginning-level tutorials on After Effects and Photoshop, two [...]
As I write this article I am in the process of peeing my pants. We found out last night that Mitt Romney’s campaign team would like to feature the flash widget we made for him on his myspace page. I am really excited about the exposure it will (hopefully) bring, and worried sick about how [...]
Ok, so I’ve been stealing the last couple of posts from my favorite website, northTemple.com (hope you don’t mind, Cameron). But I thought this was really cool.
I remember when I was a little kid, I thought that by the year 2000 we would all be riding in hovercraft cars, eating from food replicators (Excuse the Star Trek reference) and wearing shiny tin-foil jumpsuits. I’ve been pretty disappointed with technology’s progress until today, when I saw Google’s Street View. All I can [...]
I just had a fantastic 4 days at my wife’s family cabin in Colorado. It’s really beautiful there, and I got to do some long-overdue hiking. Sometimes being outdoors makes me wish I would have chosen a different field to go into, but I’m sure that if I worked outdoors I’d covet a desk job. [...]
For the past couple of months, I have been in a mental tug-of-war over my site redesign. As a flash enthusiast, I have done most of my portfolio websites as full-flash sites. Full-flash sites are great if you either aren’t worried about marketing yourself, or have some form of marketing in place (other [...]
The time has come for our annual trip to my wife’s family’s cabin in Colorado. I am VERY excited to get away from the desk and get some fresh air. I really look forward to his trip every year, and now that Kayla (my daughter) is old enough to take on 4-wheeler rides it has [...]
Skill level = Intermediate
This tutorial may not apply to most designers - in fact, it may not even be useful to many flash designers. However, if you are a flash designer who has a particular fascination with full browser websites, you may like this. In this tutorial I will show you how [...]
The long awaited WidgetNest.com is now live. We have had a fair amount of success with the project already, as one of our widgets was posted on AutoBlog. We are now in the process of creating some political widgets that supporters can post on their sites to keep track of the latest news feeds from their [...]