wordpress.

It feels like blasphemy saying that word on blogger. But one day I shall be leaving this beloved blog behind, on moving onto a better domain.

It has definitely made me come to the conclusion that I am not a web designer. Ideas in head do not come onto screen easily. I probably just need to practice a bit more but yes, time is of the essence.

So I've installed wordpress and tinkered around in it's PHP files, tried to get my head around it and make it look like how i want it to.

here's my progress:



I wanted pixels. They came out as boxes. I couldn't decide on colours at this stage, but I was mostly concerned about getting my head around it.



Not much changed here, but I like that gradient. ^_^ mmm... colours.



I tried to work on this idea a bit more, with DIRTY brushes in photoshop. But I still wasn't really happy.

So I've resignated myself to just using a good looking template. I'm going to try to customize it a bit but I think it's the way forward.

flash is starting to appeal to me

finally.

i'm now getting to the stage where i'm thinking about how i want the interactions with the floor to look and behave.

whilst doing a bit of research i came across daniel shiffman's lovely motion triggered lighting which made me whimper a bit as it's so simple but so nice.

Which got me interested in particles. Which i have now decided is far too mathy for me, and trying to teach myself maths just to make pretty particles would be useful in some sense, but in this project ultimately a waste of time. Although i would like to create an "oooh" reaction, it is not the aim of this project.

So i've decided to be a dirty cheat and instead make some movie clips in dirty flash and use some dirty actionscript. I'm not even planning to code animations at this stage, i'm just going to animate them in a nice simple-ish way.

Now i've just got to learn dirty actionscript.

i'm stalking your ass.

with this piece of AWESOME.



there's all these pleasing graphs, 60% of my visitors are on dirty PCs, and 40% are using dirty internet explorer, and two were on dirty dial-up. people spend an average of 33 seconds on here, someone stayed on for a whopping 1 minute 45 seconds!! i don't know what bounce rate is but there's a hell of a lot of it. the amount of visitors coming off google matches those coming off magnetic north. i've had 54 visitors, and most of them are noobs.

so yeah, i know you're there, and i know what version of flash you've got installed.
it's making me a bit power mad.