EGNM 2001

Finished

Tom — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:42:43 +0000

The project is finished now and the Microsite is up….

http://www.unknowndomain.co.uk/2001/adayinmylife/blog.htm

The actual site is here…

http://www.unknowndomain.co.uk/2001/adayinmylife

The banner ads are here

http://www.unknowndomain.co.uk/2001/mamamia

The stages of action are here…

http://www.unknowndomain.co.uk/2001/sainsburys

This has been an interesting brief and although at times I have hated it I have learnt a lot about flash and I have improved my HTML/CSS and learn the basics of Javascript (again) and also how to do Ajax(y) animations and edit in place (not in the brief but out side as a side effect)

Project Equipment

Tom — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 01:19:08 +0000

Although this project will not be real, just a mockup, I have made a shopping list…

Camera

The most important part of this whole thing is the camera, a camera which is portable yet has good image quality, colour reproduction and battery life is essential, additionally it needs bluetooth or wifi.

Although it would be nice to carry a DSLR around all the time, its not practical because its not portable and requires plugin modules for wifi.Canon has a range of cameras which they all PowerShot, however they do not have a camera with built in Wifi

Nikon on the other hand does not so clearly distinguish their consumer and prosumer equipment, instead opting for the Coolpix brand across their entire range of digital compact cameras. They do however put them into three groups. Performance, Style and Life.

Nikon S50c - £152.96 (best price)

7.2MP
Optical Vibration Reduction
3″ display
3x Optical Zoom
802.11b/g

Nikon S51c – £174.95 (best price)

8.1MP
Optical Vibration Reduction
3″ display
3x Optical Zoom
802.11b/g

My search for a camera with any kind of bluetooth or wifi technology has been severly hindered by the lack of products out there, considering I bought a camera with just this feature last year I am amazed how few products there are out there currently with this facility.

I believe the reason for this technology not being widly available is due to the increasing improvement of cameras built into mobile phones

Nokia N95 – Free on contract

5MP
GPS (With Shozu)
2.8″display
3G
802.11b/g

Laptop/PDA

The laptop is the centeral hub on the backend of the site it must be portable with long life batterys at least 1 usb port the 3G modem, bluetooth for the GPS, WiFi for the camera to transfer the files.

The Sony Vaio VGN-UX1NX is perfect although a little expensive at RRP £999.99

GPS

The GPS needs to have a good battery life, bluetooth and be reasonably accurate.

Garmin are well know and respected and the Garmin GPS10 is cheap and perfect for this project at RRP £140.00

I have gone onto each MSPs (Mobile Service Providers) website and looked at their options for HDSPA (aka 3G internet access) as usual we are getting ripped of in the UK compared with the USA, to demonstrate I have listed a US T-Mobile service plan with the UK price.

T-Mobile USA – Total Internet for Data Cards – $49.99 (£25) (1 mnth)

$149.99 (£75) modem
Unlimited Data

Orange – Business Everywhere – £41.63 (24 mnths)

Free Modem
1GB monthly limit

O2 – Web Max – £30 (12 mnths)

Free Modem
3GB monthly limit

Three – Broadband Max – £25 ( 18 mnths)

Free modem
7GB monthly limit

T-Mobile – Web ‘n’ Walk Max – £35 (24 mnths)

Free modem
10GB monthly limit

Vodafone – Mobile Broadband – £25 (18 mnths)

£49.00 modem
500MB 24hr limit

The best plans here are the T-Mobile Web ‘n’ Walk Max plan or the Three Broadband Max plan. They provide a large monthly transfer limit while providing free a Mac and PC compatible modem and low monthly rates.

The worst, which would be shocking except it is Orange is the Orange Business Everywhere plan with only 1GB a month, for over £40 and a 24 month contract (TERRIBLE).

Photo 1

Tom — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 10:34:46 +0000

Timeline

Tom — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 15:19:45 +0000

As part of the third and final part I want a timeline which acts like the mac os x dock, so I have been looking for a tutorial for recreating this in flash… http://jrgraphix.net/research/flash_dock.php

Pizza Hut

Tom — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:13:27 +0000

http://www.bannerblog.com.au/2006/08/pizza_hut_worldly_to.php

Finished!!!

Tom — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:45:59 +0000

Wow! I didn’t think that in just a few extra hours I could get to some where that I am even slightly happy with. Infact I am very happy with this design and Shyam, Mike and Claire are in agrement. I spoke with Sabrina, Max and Tom F on MSN and they were all positive.

Inline example

Resources….close.mp3 mamamia.mp3 rattle1.mp3 rattle2.mp3 rattle3.mp3 shwip.mp3

Shyam

Tom — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:00:18 +0000

So after talking with Shyam he said and I agreed that although the company might use the Italian flag for their branding I do not necessarily need to follow that to the letter. So he recommended making the background just white, I have actually decided to just make it simple and have no background at all. I have also rejigged every thing around, tweaked refined and improved the work. I am much happier with this now…

Inspiration please?

Tom — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:50:23 +0000

So I am feeling totally uninspired by this part of the brief at the moment, I have kind of hit the bottom of the well in terms of my design, here is what I have, but I do not feel very enthusiatic about it at all. I am going to speak with Shyam and see what feedback he can give.

MEGA LINKAGE

Tom — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:55:51 +0000

After my tutorial with Ben I decided to take a look at the link and some other places and here is some mega linkage into stuff I like and have been looking at (links to the sites are under the image)…Work in progress 2007 FLICKR: Stack of containers Flip Clock Typography Style Kicken Gallery Flowery Typ e Audry Templier A’s This bag holds….Hanging Stuff Grafik Which are you?Flickr Typography Flash Thing We are build Hack 2 School Wildcard (jp)Wired Video: C’était un Rendez-vouz Thats it for now but more will undoubtedly follow… STAY TUNED !!!

What the font (dot) com

Tom — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:58:19 +0000

What the font (dot) come allows you to find out what font is used in an image of your choice, you upload the image to the site and it then tries to work out what font is used by asking you to identify each letter. It goes ahead and compares the font to others which are known and you with any luck end up with a list of places to buy the font.

Unfortunatly for me the font I need is one called Rage which I don’t have and I do not really want to pay £19 for as its a nasty font, so I am asking around trying to find other students who have the font.

My choosen take away is the mama mia pizzeria and restaurant local to me…

Here you can see how close this restaurant is to my house…

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This is the font is choose…

Click to supersize me!