About this Website
This is the weblog of Joseph Labrecque: Senior Multimedia Application Developer for the University of Denver and Owner of Fractured Vision Media, LLC. Joseph is an Adobe Higher Education Leader.
Category Archives: Web Design
WordPress 3.0 Released: New Blog Theme!
Before today, I wasn’t all that impressed with WordPress 3.0. I had been using several release candidates over the past month or so and aside from the new update mechanism (which is very nice!), I really didn’t see much that … Continue reading
Just To Put Things In Perspective…
Ever since Apple announced their new iPad, I’ve been reading a whole lot about how HTML5 will replace (I believe “kill” is the preferred term) Flash. Most arguments state that the emerging HTML5 spec includes such things as <canvas> and … Continue reading
Simple AS3 Slideshow Widget: Part 3
This is the final post in a three part tutorial detailing the creation of a Flash slideshow widget using ActionScript 3.0. Have a look over Part 1 and Part 2 before moving ahead. In this post, we are examining the … Continue reading
Simple AS3 Slideshow Widget: Part 2
In Part 1, we had a look at the basic structure of what we are working toward, including a PHP file to read images from a directory and return a list of images to Flash, the setup of our FLA, … Continue reading
Simple AS3 Slideshow Widget: Part 1
This is a simple example of how to build a dynamic slideshow widget in Flash using ActionScript 3.0 such as the one seen here. The first thing you’ll need to do is set up an FLA with the properties you’d … Continue reading
