Reagan Memories
I have been working to get my graphic design portfolio online for a while now. I uploaded it last night, and aside from a few bugs, it should be finished. Here is the link to my new portfolio.
I had several goals as I was building this site that I think are universal challenges to anyone working in Flash:
Keep the size small. The site is 70kb. I am trying to solve the problem of it being choppy on a computers with slower processors. Any suggestions are welcome.
Keep it simple. Fancy Flash gimmicks are a crutch for alot of sites if they don’t make sense, are slow, or don’t serve a purpose. My philosophy is if the animation doesn’t serve a purpose, leave it out.
Animate using actionscript. This allows acceleration and decelleration movement as well as limitless other benefits.
Use Preloaders. Anyone who is starting out in Flash knows that preloaders are a challenge to learn, but are very important.
Load content from external files. This more than anything else keeps the size of the file small.
Those are some big challenges. If anyone wants the .fla file, let me know.
