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Calling all flash developers!

  • Mar. 9th, 2009 at 1:17 AM
dino eating kangaroo, omnomz
Hey guys;

I know a lot of you develop graphics, and I'm trying to add a Flash developer to my team. I'm going to probably have a site coming in that requires a small amount of Flash; you would receive a portion of the total cost, as well as a very attractive addition to your portfolio (plus you'd get to work with me!)

The client wants something similar to this site: http://premierespeakers.com/ I'm trying to talk them into a more accessible setup which will require no Flash whatsoever, but I'd still like to have a Flash specialist on my team for when a project comes in, and one on standby if the client does not change their mind.

I already work with a content writer and a developer, and I do all of the other graphics and design work myself (as well as some of the development) as well as work with several other designers/graphics artists, so I would expect you to spend no more than a few hours on this site. A price hasn't been settled, but you can expect to receive at least 10% comission (which, usually is quite a lot (upon average you would receive $150-$500 for one job - just for doing a few hours of Flash!), but I offered this particular client a 50% discount).

For more details, please IM me!:

MSN: silentdelerium08@gmail.com
YIM: scintillaofeternity
AIM: ImW8ngForGodot
GTalk/Jabber: brandnewaquarium@gmail.com or maidenus@livejournal.com

I'd also like to see samples of your work so that I can gauge your level of skill and expertise. I don't care if you're home taught or formally taught, all I care to see is a level of skill that I can work with, someone I can give pointers to, and someone who can take criticism from me. I do know some Flash, but admittedly my knowlede of it is currently limited - I like to focus more on the implementation, the PHP, and the Photoshop/Illustrator (as well as being the customer relations person haha).

You can view my freelance portfolio at http://belinkddesign.com . In addition, some other sites I've worked on in the past include http://confava.com as well as a few templates that can be found at http://projects.belinkddesign.com/templates/practicedesign.pdf and http://projects.belinkddesign.com/templates/layout.png

Hope to hear from some of you! :)

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[info]sircaliban wrote:
Mar. 9th, 2009 12:54 pm (UTC)
One of my friends is really good with flash/animation. If you want, I'll contact her.
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[info]lessy37 wrote:
Mar. 9th, 2009 01:59 pm (UTC)
I wish I could call myself a Flash expert. *laughs* I have one client asking me to design a drop down menu that I know should be done in Flash and I have forgotten much about how it works.

Do you set up all your pages in Dreamweaver? If so, have you moved on from the use of tables to straight CSS for your layouts? I am trying to teach myself CSS to set up my layouts now. They didn't teach us how to design the layout with DIV tags in college...unfortunately, so now I'm stumbling my way through it on my own.

I wish you luck! Seems we are both on the path of doing freelance work right now. I just completed a printed piece and have two websites to develop. But I hope to sell some T-shirt designs to bring in some cash. Meh.
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[info]maidenus wrote:
Mar. 10th, 2009 08:13 pm (UTC)
Yes, I use only HTML/CSS div layouts - I haven't done anything table-based in over five years now. Here's some books and sites that I strongly suggest for learning better HTML/CSS:

http://www.amazon.com/CSS-Missing-Manual-David-McFarland/dp/0596526873/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1236715127&sr=8-1

http://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-HTML-Reference-Ian-Lloyd/dp/0980285887/ref=pd_bbs_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1236715234&sr=8-7

http://www.amazon.com/Head-First-HTML-CSS-XHTML/dp/059610197X/ref=pd_sim_b_4

http://reference.sitepoint.com/css

http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/stylesheets/csslinks.html

http://www.webreference.com/

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS_Reference

I can help you out of you want; I've been scripting HTML/CSS (or at least hacking it) for roughly five years now. Yes, I do use Dreamweaver to write the markup, but for the most part I just write it by hand, since it is easier for me to understand what I am coding that way - plus I just don't trust code generators. They are machines, after all, and don't necessarily have the problem solving skills of a human brain, especially when it comes to optimizing for other browsers and making the code standards compliant. I'd suggest you also learned to code it by hand if you wish to do freelance work other than graphics; as I've told Ione, it's a very good skill to have.

Just contact me on YIM if you want some pointers; I'm starting another site right now, and can show you the bare bones of what I'm using, or even suggest feeds for you to read that'll help you with your own graphics/illustration and design.

As for drop-downs, I'd strongly suggest *against* utilizing Flash for them. My issue with Flash (and why I never learned Flash that well) is that most effects done in Flash can be completed utilizing either HTML and CSS, or through the use of jQuery at the very least. This is probably the best way I've found to do them: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/horizdropdowns/
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[info]lessy37 wrote:
Mar. 11th, 2009 04:37 pm (UTC)
Kim you are a godsend with all that information!! Thank you so much hon!! *hugs* I will peruse the links and see what I can use for sure. I bought a book yesterday 'Teach Yourself Visually HTML and CSS' that looks like it suits my learning style. I never got beyond real basic stuff as far as typing out code in notepad. I've relied on Dreamweaver for the most part. But like you said, it is not perfect and I've had issues with browser compatability too. Also, thanks a million for an alternative to using Flash for dropdown menues. My instructor gave me instructions for making one with Fireworks - but I've not given that a try either. I very much appreciate your offer to help too...I might take you up on that one day...but I'm sure that I can get going with the links you provided. Thank you so much!!
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[info]irish_mist wrote:
Mar. 10th, 2009 08:24 pm (UTC)
I am afraid I am like you in that respect, Lessy. I love flash a lot... almost as much as I love Illustrator, but I have had no real jobs to keep up on it...

Did find a book that teaches me CSS/ HTML, and I think I have sort of refreshed my memory somewhat in HTML.

Thanks for the references Kim! I am sure they'll help out a lot... *hugs*
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[info]lessy37 wrote:
Mar. 11th, 2009 04:39 pm (UTC)
Well...I do not love Flash at all really *laughs* I only learned the basics back in college and never used the program after the class ended. I have always used Dreamweaver to set up my web pages....so my knowledge of code is also pretty basic. But Kim gave a lot of great information in her reply to me above didn't she?...we can both benefit from it for sure!

Good luck in your own work, dear.
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