Portfolio

A little over a year ago when I started this blog, my intention was always to use it as a way to learn a bit about webpages so that I could get my portfolio online. Well, I got a bit sidetracked when I realised just how fun (and time-consuming) blogging is but I finally sat myself down and got my portfolio done. That’s what a looming deadline will do for you.

You can find it here, or by following the button on the sidebar, and I’d appreciate any feeback, particularly if you find something is broken or I’ve forgotten to link all the dots. It’s sure to need some tweaking and I’m still getting my head around compression of movie files. It includes some animation from the game I was working on for the past year since it was released last week, as well as animation and artwork from older projects.

If you know anything about webpage design and you peek under the site’s skirts…yes, I hang my head in shame…the code shows I’m winging it I’m afraid. Still, if it works until I can figure out the enigma that is Dreamweaver, that’s all I ask for now.

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  1. Felicia (Sutherland) Patten

    September 27, 2006 at 3:46 am

    Claire…I really wanted to see the animation, but for some reason, I wasn’t able to. It never actually gave me a reason why either. I just have to say that I am a bit sad because I don’t feel like I got to know this creative side of you. It was a short time, yes, but an intense time, and I feel like I’ve missed out on so much of who you are. In heaven, we’ll hang out again and reacquaint ourselves, ok?

    Take care..flee

  2. gingerpixel

    September 27, 2006 at 9:05 am

    Hi Flee,

    I’m hoping we get to sit down and catch up a lot sooner than that ;)

    Hmm, the animation files are pretty big so maybe that was why you couldn’t see them…either that or you don’t have Quicktime installed. Thanks for letting me know, I’ll have to put a button in to show people where to install it or something.

  3. maca

    October 24, 2006 at 6:30 pm

    Just having a look through it now, your work’s amazing, especially catwoman, outstanding animation (*must …. hide … jealousy*)

    I know a bit about web design, the only comment about the design I have is that I get side scrolling when the window is narrower than 1000 pxs. There should be no need for this as your content is only 600px wide. The problem appears to be your left margin which should be flexible. (mail me if you need help debugging)

    p.s. got myself a copy of Max 8 recently … now if only I knew how to use it …

  4. maca

    October 24, 2006 at 6:41 pm

    p.s. and photoshop, another one I don’t know how to use.

  5. gingerpixel

    October 25, 2006 at 11:20 pm

    Hi Maca, thanks for checking out my site. I had a lot of fun animating Catwoman eventhough the game didn’t do so well :D

    I haven’t touched Max in about 5 years so I’d probably be just as lost with it. I hear it’s better for modelling and texturing though the Max v Maya camps are pretty entrenched :)

    I used NetFusion to build my site thinking it would be easier, the only thing is if I find a mistake (like the one you’re talking about) it’s so hard to try and get NetFusion to play nice about it.

  6. maca

    October 26, 2006 at 4:39 pm

    NetFusion … that’s “wysiwyg” is it? I code everything by hand, it’s slow but you know every part of the page intimately … hmm, that sounds bad. It means I can find and fix problems easier because I know all the code that went into it.
    Can you edit the html/css files of your site or does it have to be done thro NetFusion?

  7. maca

    October 26, 2006 at 4:46 pm

    There’s your problem … your main table:

    “width=1000″

    remove this if possible or if you HAVE to put a value then set it to something small (less than approx 780)

  8. gingerpixel

    October 26, 2006 at 5:15 pm

    Thanks Maca I’ll have a look. I can edit the html files but only certain parts. Netfusion is indeed a wysiwyg editor because I just don’t know enough about web authoring to attempt to code it myself. I know only the very basics. It allows you to see the html and edit parts of it but other parts are greyed out and can’t be touched. Hopefully the dimensions aren’t part of the latter. Thanks for the help.

  9. maca

    October 26, 2006 at 5:24 pm

    no probs, glad to help.

    If you had FTP access you could probably just edit the files online.