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I believe that a good website should not be run on Flash. Sure, it can have trivial flash components, but not Flash for the menu, navigation, and content!
Nonetheless, Flash allows designers to make very visually appealing websites with effects that are not possible with simple HTML/CSS and either cumbersome or unfeasible with Javascript. Furthermore, there’s no need to tinker with stylesheets or test browser compatibility for hours on end.
So against my principles, I am experimenting with a Flash version of my website. It’s started off simple and redundant, but I will develop it more in my free time. The hardest part is of course the graphics. You can see my project at: http://darrenhe.com/flash.
I finally am making some changes to my own website!
Logo has been changed and I have added a right side picture for people with big enough monitors to see it. Kat’s doing some graphics for me – I’m excited!
Also made some graphics for Services and Portfolio, and I’m thinking of replacing that rainbow thing on my home page to a flash animation. I only put it there to take up space anyways.
After finishing a redesign of the website, I decided to transfer my theme to a Joomla! CMS so that other people could easily make changes to the site content. This basically required a reimplementation of everything I had done already. But it also allowed me to take advantage of more advanced components, modules, and plugins that have been designed for Joomla! I unveil it to the senior class committee on Thursday – I hope it find and fix any last remaining bugs before then!
I’ve been working on the Harvard senior class website for a few days now, not doing much else besides eating and sleeping. It’s not that websites are terribly difficult to build – writing up a clean CSS is rather easy, once the quirks of Internet Explorer browser compatibility are worked out.
The design, however, is the hard part. Coming up with a sleek, novel design requires a lot of time for me, and I know that I’ve spent hours moving a couple lines around, trying to make the page look good. I spent a lot of time last night making a new theme that I’ve decided not to use. Good learning experience? Perhaps. Waste of time? Sure feels like it.
I went back to my third design for the site, and it’s in my Projects page. I still feel that it’s a little bit off, but I’m not sure what to do. I think I’ll let it stay as is. After all, content is more important than beauty, right?
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