hell, revisited.
i vanished because i’ve been busy with undertaking something virtually beyond my capacity.
for the last week, i’ve all but put an “out of office” sign on life while i focus entirely on concepting, designing and coding the web site for both my solo agency practise and my entertainment media design studio.
not only have i avoided touching anything HTMLish since 2001, i’m also implementing a slew of customised javascript features that help keep the functionality exactly as i originally envisioned it.
so far, i’ve come a remarkably long way. i mean it.
the neatest javascript feature i’ve already implemented was a way to have a link to my business email address where search engines and egregious spamming “email harvesters” (why do people exist to create this crap, anyhow?) simply can’t yank the address for their hungry databases. but to you or me, it clicks and opens an email window in your fave email utility as it always would have.
keen.
still, the nightmare facing me ahead is creating the javascript for the controllable slide show in the portfolio gallery. not that i’m feeling all that empowered and encouraged by my calibre of work (is this a common thing for artists? cos it’s all i’ve known since i started doing this before the dot-commie heyday — while these days, the no-jobs-out-there-in-my-industry problem only exacerbates my insecurity on the matter), but hey. i want my arse covered on all fronts.
anyhow, while there are ways of creating an interactive slide show with relatively simple, generic code that others have graciously published online, what i want is something with a remarkably clean and friendly user interface that no one out there is really using (not that i’ve seen, at least, without resorting to Flash MX, which i do not have). trouble is, creating the code for it may force me to do something rash, like “fall” off a cliff into the chilly waters of the Puget Sound. i can’t afford buying Flash MX, and i have no hopes in trying to relearn it after a brief, futile stint using Flash 4 in 2000. i so suck.
compounding matters further this weekend, all sorts of heavy, bad shit was going down in the lives of people close to me. for awhile, i got caught in the middle of a firestorm of which i felt entirely powerless. it also pretty much forced me to set aside the work until things settled down a bit. i don’t like seeing the people about whom i care deeply under that element of anger, frustration, fear and pain. it’s in my nature to look after those close to me.
plus, some appointments had to get scuttled due to reasons beyond my control. and this only frustrated me further.
anyway.
if i’m successful with the web site and can get it operating, live and running smoothly, and you’re interested in being informed as to its completion and availability, pass a comment saying so and i’ll set up a custom group for that explicit feature.