Thursday, September 21, 2006

ActionScript killed John Lennon.

It didn't really, I'm not entirely sure why I wrote that. I think it's because I've had little sleep, and I've been staring at a monitor screen for the majority of my waking hours over the last couple of days.

I'm still trying to do my site, and as per usual, I'm trying to do far too much for my first attempt. I'm currently drowing in actionscript. I do have to admit to you that I'm not really much of coder, instead prefering to dream up great ideas and then sit back do nothing, hoping the idea will just materialise.
Coding kind of makes me wanna remove people's fingers - it never quite works they way you expect it to (to start with at least), and the problem is usually something as basic as a missing semicolon that takes 4 hours to find.

Still, if I wanna make really funkeh websites, then I'll need to learn this, but man, is it a bitch. I wish there was a way to see all the actionscript on all the keyframes at once, cos I'm forever forgetting where I've put stuff.

I also have no idea when to use certain elements for navigation. To start with, I created everything in one big timeline, then as I got more content, I realised I should be creating scenes. So I did that, and came up against limitations, that after more research led me to believe the best way for me to navigate my site is by using seperate movies.

So I set this up, and now nothing quite works, again. I got everything working, so I added some animations for scene/movie transitions, and that broke everything again. So I then spent ages fixing it, and added a preloader. That shafted everything, and now I'm in a whole load of jumble, and I'm kind of lost inside my own flash file.

Arg! Actionscript didn't kill John Lennon, but it might kill me. Although this frigging beanbag isn't helping things either.

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