It was finally time to check out Twitter. I started using my account actively a week or so ago, and it’s been a blast. Although there are whole new chemics I need to learn about the in Twitter community (and especially the Boulder scene), I feel like almost everything is accepted, so possible mistakes goes unnoticed.
Intense Debate incorporated Twitter today. It’s either your latest tweets or a personal message that can go in your avatar menu now. I suggest you head over to the Intense Debate Blog right away and read more. Plus there’s a shiny screenshot there!
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It’s amazing how some things change rapidly and how others.. Well, doesn’t change at all. It’s 2008 and I still work as hard as ever. One thing’s for certain: This is the year. So much exciting stuff will happen this year.
I’m working on a little side project for Adept Web Solutions while Intense Debate stabilizes. I thought I’d post something about that on here later.. It’s cool stuff. I’m also hoping to update the blog a little bit, already getting tired of it.
No christmas without julmust! If you’re not from Sweden, you have to try it, if you are in fact from Sweden, you know exactly what I’m talking about. All hail the julmust! Julmust ftw!
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Read this brilliant blog post. You won’t regret it, believe me. It summons what many of us thinks about the music industry these days.
“…take away all the rules and legal ties, all the ownership and profit margins, and naturally, the result is something purely for, by, and in service of the music fan. And it actually helps musicians - file-sharing is ‘the greatest marketing tool ever to come along for the music industry.’”
I’ve had this idea for a long time, to create a menu that would look animated but still being all CSS. The trick is to use the movement of the mouse over different objects to trigger other elements to change. Thanks to normal child selectors, nested elements and some padding animation is actually possible. The theory behind this is that the 1st element sets the size of the visible menu item, the 2nd changes this to a higher value, and so forth. You can also put in color changes and whatever else CSS you might want!
This is just a proof of concept, and I have no idea if it actually works in all browsers. I’ve developed this little example for Firefox 2. Mouse over the menu slowly and see what happens…
Confusing? I put in some borders in the example below, in an attempt to show off the theory behind it..
Hope you like it
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I’m sitting alot in front of the screen, and I know I should exercise or at least take breaks every hour or so to stretch some and get the blood flowing. However, and I don’t think I’m alone here, I never seem to get around to.
Now, however I’m trying a new thing. I’m setting a timer for 60 minutes, and when it rings I’ll follow this stretching plan for a few minutes, then start the clock again. I also hope to drink a glass of water during this break. It all sounds very good, but I’m very skeptical myself… At least I’ll try to get this going.
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I don’t know if this is common knowledge among webdesigners, but this was all new for me. If you don’t select a color for a border, just say “border: 1px solid;” (for example) it will inherit the color of the current object. I’ve checked this in Firefox 2 and Opera 9, and it really works here.
I’m not very experienced in Flash. I can do basic movies with tweens, some playback buttons and maybe one or two animations, but that’s pretty much it. For a recent project however, I had to do a pause button.
Now this might seem like an easy task, but it isnt. A pause button must both pause and play the video. I looked around the web for some easy solutions, but couldn’t come up with anything useful (although I’m sure there are guides for it out there, I just didn’t look hard enough..). This is what I came up with:
How to create a Play/Pause button in Flash
1. Create a movieclip called “playpause”. Put this movieclip anywhere in your main movie.
2. Create a button in this movieclips first frame, call this button “pause”.
3. Now go to frame two, create a keyframe and another button, call this one “play”.
4. Create another layer, call this layer “script”. Put the marker in the first frame and open Frame Actions. Type in “stop();”. Create another keyframe, and do the same thing again.
5. The buttons need some actionscripting too to be able to work. They need to both make the other button display and to play and pause our movie, which is the main target. I found a way to do this really easily. Click the button “pause”, and open Button Actions. Then type in:
on (release) {
gotoAndStop(2);
_parent.stop();
}
The first line displays the play button, the other one pauses the main movie. Select the other button, “play”, and type in:
on (release) {
gotoAndStop(1);
_parent.play();
}
Save the document, press Command+Enter (PC: CTRL+Enter) and make sure it works.
I hope you found the guide useful! Please leave a comment below and let me know what you thought.
Read this brilliant blog post. You won’t regret it, believe me. It summons what many of us thinks about the music industry these days.