Wallpaper Portfolio

I’ve changed my mind again on Flash.  After going through some of the preliminary work, I found that it would be very difficult to do the wallpaper portfolio in JavaScript and have it look like it is uniform with the other parts of my portfolio.  The main sticking points are the special effects and keeping the file size reasonable.  Basically, to keep the drop shadows and the glow in JavaScript, I would have to use PNG format or I would have to make one big JPEG of the page and display in slices to maintain the gradient in the back ground.  The PNG file sizes are not practical and the slices for variable images would be very hokey and difficult to pull off cleanly.  So, I’m leveraging the web design porfolio Flash gallery and merely exchanging the images.  I hope to be done by the end of the week.  I will only be able to squeeze in about 1-hr/day this week because I’m swamped with real life.  I still may add some variety by making the menu bar horizontal.  We’ll see … Actually, it’s not that bad adding images in ActionScript.  It’s mainly copying and updating file names.

As for JavaScript … well, waiting for CSS3 for the special effects.