May 27, 2004

New Tutorial Available : Fireworks Essential Tips : Part I

A new tutorial for Fireworks can be found here on Phireworx outlining a series of tips to aid your productivity and creativity in Fireworks.Enjoy…

May 27, 2004

Fireworks Essential Tips: Part 1

When creating interfaces elements that will eventually end up on show for public consumption consider each individual element within the design and ask yourself the following questions. Does the element play a functional part in the interface? Will the element work in the medium it is intended? If the element is an animation, video or auditory narrative, does it add to the overall aesthetics of the design? If you answered ‘No' to any of these three questions, revisit the element, and either improve it or ditch it, then ask yourself the same questions again. Read more [...]
May 27, 2004

Everything comes in Threes…Or Does It?

Well, to start things off this morning, i had a bad morning (car and driver issues); then i had some project news which really annoyed me; i’m currently waiting for the third installment of Steven’s Day from Hell just to round things off

May 19, 2004

Overloaded…

I’ve been so overloaded inside and outside of work, that i’ve had little time to blog here at Phireworx due to immensely overinflated workloads; i’ll try to change that soon.

I also found a whole shed load of half finished extensions yesteday including a strangely named extension named ‘Flubber’ and ‘Rubberizer’

I’ll leave that to you to decide what they do!!! read more

May 11, 2004

Strange ActionScript 2.0 Class Behavior

Link to my Sitepoint Flash blog on some strange AS2.0 Class behavior

May 8, 2004

Phireworx and the Future

I’ve been mulling the idea in my mind for a few months ago, and am seriously considering a change of domain name as we move more and more into Flash development as well as expanding the range or articles on offer within the site.The question remains what do the users want to see in the site? You let us know and we’ll try and bring you more of it!

May 8, 2004

Essential Fireworks Tips

A couple of months ago i wrote an article for Practical Web Projects magazine on essential fireworks tips. The feedback was good and i was thinking of converting it to a Phireworx tutorial.

Anyone interested in seeing it? Post your comments below

May 8, 2004

Tree Garden I and Complexification

I received my order from Jared over at complexification.net yesterday and it’s a wonderous piece of work.

I just love limited edition prints especially when they’re as good as this!!!

May 1, 2004

Sitepoint Blog Updated

Updated here, regarding some strange ActionScript behaviour