What’s a blog-powered web site? Well, the LarsonCreative.net web site is one! kathy’s-art.com, themainplace.com, and villagetheatrearts.com are examples too. While they looks and act like a regular web site as seen in LarsonCreative.net blog-powered web sites take advantage of a comprehensive set of off-the-shelf, often open source tools that allow modules to be added and customized. I use design to make these interact seamlessly.
Basic Web Site Features
- Distinctly-designed home page.
- Main navigation found on every page and other elements entice visitors to explore your entire site.
- CSS-driven pages that define the color, fonts, and other design elements and gives the site a cohesive “look and feel†and brand.
What the Blog Platforms Adds:
posted by Eric Larson at 1:51 pm
In a wonderful world the topic of browser compatibility wouldn’t exist — all would adhere to the same standard. But unfortunately all web based browsers were not created equal. The best method for choosing what browser to build to is to check your user base and build to accommodate that user base.
If 75% of your user base uses Internet Explorer 6 & 7, then guess what ...Continue reading --> it gets better!
posted by Eric Larson at 2:05 pm
What you’re about to see is a very creative Flash Animation. This is a frame- by-frame animation. 2108 frames in total. That means 2108 unique drawings that flow together to tell a story. I placed a preloader on this swf file so you can see the percent loaded. Frame by frame animation can be size intensive doing things like motion and shape tweening can reduce the file size. I rather like the rough cut look of frame by frame animations - it reminds me of the flip page penny arcade animations. It also gives you the feeling the work was created on the fly. As you’ll see in “The Door†Pascal Campion, does an excellent job of telling a story through animation where almost anything can happen. He has done commercials and work for pbs, look him up and check out his work!
Pascal Campion is an excellent animator - his portfolio is full of fun and very creative animated clips, all done in Flash. This particular one is called simply “Door,†and features a hapless guy who just wants to open a door. It’s a simple door what’s the worst that could happen? Watch as the danger ensues!
Pascal’s website and blog
posted by Eric Larson at 11:55 pm
