Diary for Unit 65 Assignment 2
23/10/12:
Today’s lesson, we started to create our websites on Adobe Flash. We had to
follow our ideas that we made for Assignment 1 and create them on flash.
By the end of the lesson, I will have created
the outlining of my home page on Adobe Flash.
The image to the
right is the starting ground of my first page. I managed to create the
background, buttons and the title. I converted them all to their appropriate
platforms too so they work on a website. By the end of this lesson, I managed
to achieve quite a bit more than I expected. I expected to create the
background and the title and that was it. But what I managed to create was the
background, the title and several buttons which work already. The home button,
which you can see to the left, I made so that when the mouse runs over it, it
goes blurry. I did this with all of my buttons so it makes it look interactive.
So basically I achieved more than I set out to do. To change my buttons to a
button, it was something I never really got used to but I managed it. What I
had to do was go to ‘modify’ then ‘convert to symbol’ in flash. Once I did that
a menu appears. The menu is the one to the left. Basically for a button, you
have to change the type to button, and name it something like
‘btn_ozbackpackers’ so you remember what it called for future uses.
25/10/12: Today’s lesson, we carried on with
the same task of creating our websites in Adobe Flash. Today I will try and
make my buttons click to make them go to another page and edit the title and
buttons.
By the end of the lesson, I will have done all
of my graphics. What I mean by this is creating the rollover button, filters
and buttons when they button is pressed.
I have created two other pages including the ‘pics’ page and
the ‘places’ page. I made the buttons click so they navigate to the next page.
06/11/12: Today’s lesson, I am going to make
all of my pages navigate properly to the right page. All of my pages are
navigating properly at the moment, but they aren’t navigating to the next page
when I click onto another button. This is what I am going to fix and make work
properly today.
By the end
of the lesson, I have managed to make the buttons navigate to the
correct page by using this method.
Firstly I changed the
individual icons to a button. To do this I clicked the image and went to
‘modify’ then ‘convert to symbol’. Then a new pop up appears and makes you choice what you want
to make your icon to. I chose to make my icon a ‘button’ so that I could
13/11/12: Today’s lesson, I started
by linking all the pages together so the buttons work for each pages. The way I
did this was different from everyone in the class because I have missed a few
lessons, so I decided to do it the way I remembered in the first time we
started to make websites.
To
start, I clicked the button ‘home’ and made the actions for the button. To
start, I right clicked the icon and clicked actions. The box appears which gives
you the choice of what you want to do with the buttons. I started by clicking ,
‘global functions; timeline control; go to’. What this does is when the button
is clicked it does this function, which is when the button is pressed it does
what I’ve told it to do. I then copied this function on each of the buttons to
make sure this works on each of the scenes.
I then made different
scenes for each of the buttons so they have their separate pages. To do this, I
just copied the ‘pics’ scene and duplicated it. This is an easier process than
doing the same thing over and over again, which takes up too much time. Once
this is done, the buttons work properly.
I then had to make the
buttons stop at the end of their scenes. To do this is I made a new layer on
the timeline by clicking this button.
This adds a new layer to the scene (doesn’t
matter which scene) and I named it ‘actions’. I right clicked on the layer and
clicked ‘actions’. This time I only clicked ‘stop’. This stops the layer
meaning it wont move to another layer without you clicking another button.
I
then copied this layer onto each of the scenes so the scene does exactly the
same thing on each page without moving to another.
15/11/2012: Today’s lesson, I will be concentrating on putting
all of the content on each of the pages, like images and pieces of work which
are relevent to each piece of content.
To being with, I started by
importing images onto the stage and library of the website. To do this I went
to ‘file; import; import to library’. Once I did this, I just imported all of
my images that I wanted to use into the library. The images are kept inside the
library section which is here.
All
of the images can just be dragged over and placed onto the stage.
But I wanted to change the
images to movie clips so I could make an animation out of the images. To do
this was just the same method that I used to convert the icons for my pages
into buttons. I went to ‘modify; convert to symbol’.
Then
the box to the left appears and gives you the option to change the thing to a
graphic, a movie clip or a button. I chose movie clip because I want my
pictures to have an animation. I did this to all my images so that they appear
on the page at the same time.
20/11/12: Today’s lesson, I will add all of the contents onto all of
the pages so that the webpage will work properly. I have been experiencing
problems with connecting all of the pages over the last few lessons but I have
fixed this problem now.
22/11/12: Today’s lesson, I am adding all the finishing touches to my
website as its nearly finished. I spent quite a bit of the lesson trying to get
scroll boxes on all of the text I am adding to each of the pages.
This was something which
took me a while because it just didn’t want to work. First of all, I drew a
text box which the text icon in the options to the right. Then, I drew the text
box to however big I wanted it. I copied the text and pasted it into the box
that I created. This is where the text went wrong. The next thing to do is
change the text to a movie clip. This is something ive repeated several times
before; its just ‘Modify; Convert to symbol; Movie Clip’.
The next thing I had to do
was change the text from ‘Static text’ to ‘Dynamic text’. This meant that the
text can be scrollable .
The next thing which I
forgot to do was right click on the text and make the text ‘scrollable’.
This made the text
scrollable now, but I still needed to add a scroll bar to make the text scroll.
To do this I went to ‘Window’ at the top, and chose ‘Componants’, or you can
just press ‘control’ and ‘F7’.
This
box appears. Once it does, you double click the text box. This goes into the
options for the movie clip of the text. You then choose ‘UIScrollBar’ and drag
it onto the stage. This is where it wasn’t working.
I
kept taking the scroll bar and putting it onto the place where I wanted it to
work, but it wasn’t working whatsoever. I kept repeating this action but it
still wasn’t working.
23/11/12: today’s lesson, I made the text on my ‘info’ page and put
the texts onto all of the sections of the map on my ‘places’ page. I am almost
finished with the entire website its just adding all of the finishing touches
to all of the pages so it looks professional.
The main thing I had to do was
adding all of the text from a document that was prepared before and add them to
each of to the places on the map. Each one of the places in this Australian map
has its own button and places added into it. This is so users can choose their
own way around the website but also so they can choose their own place to go.
Once I did this the website
was just about complete. I just needed to add all of the finishing touches like
checking everything worked and making sure it was all ready to be set up. Next
lesson I will finish off the assignment by completing the evaluation.
29/11/12: I have set up my website and it is all finished now. Its
not perfect but its successful and its completed in the set amount of time that
I had. I am happy with the result that I have when I finshed the website looks
proffessional and well made.
To
finish I have three lessons left to finish up everything on the assignment.
This includes this diary which must be up to date from the first date to the
final date. Without the diary the website is completely useless because it
doesn’t show any evidence without it. Another is the website obviously. And the
final thing is the evalution which must be completed by the last lesson on the
Friday. But hopefully I will get the evaluation done by today.
