http://www.samburdge.co.uk Smarter Than The Average Blog Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:19:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This holding page built for Polydor artist, singer / songwriter Leona Naess features an animated logo with random fades and glows. The flash random timing actionscript is something I have utilised in the past to create similar effects (see: Flash mousetrails with random flashes!). The holding page also features a streaming ... http://www.samburdge.co.uk/portfolio/leona-naess-animated-logo-and-holding-page This website for media production company Toba Film is a Flash microsite with html as a backup for users without the flash plugin and for search engines. It features a scrolling thumnail bar from which you can select a video to watch, each thumbnail is a slideshow featuring images from ... http://www.samburdge.co.uk/portfolio/toba-film-website Heathcote Bailey is a creatively led events services company specialising in bespoke party production. The site is built in a combination of PHP, JavaScript and HTML. It features a large scrolling background image which is very cool. Check it out: www.heathcotebailey.co.uk http://www.samburdge.co.uk/portfolio/heathcote-bailey-website I have updated my site with my new 76 digital remix theme for WordPress. The new theme is built on a model I have created for a highly configurable, versatile set of premium themes which I will be releasing this summer. The premium themes will each come in three different versions ... http://www.samburdge.co.uk/blog/76-digital-remix-theme This WordPress plugin allows you to display your post titles in any font, colour and size you want using Flash. It will also retain your original html styling of your titles and display that to users who don't have Flash installed. It is fully customisable via the Options tab in ... http://www.samburdge.co.uk/wordpress/wp-flash-titles-plugin-20 This WordPress plugin adds the Lightbox feature to image links and to the new WordPress 2.5 gallery feature too. It uses the jQuery Lightbox Plugin by Benjamin Arthur Lupton to create the lightbox effect, and adds rel="lightbox" to image links in posts, pages and galleries as demonstrated in the example ... http://www.samburdge.co.uk/wordpress/wp-25-gallery-lightbox-plugin I built the game Artanoid for the 76 Creative website. It is a remake of the arcade classic Arkanoid with a 76 creative twist. The game has 5 levels, various 'power-ups' andalso saves and updates a score table using server side php. I recommend turning the music on to get ... http://www.samburdge.co.uk/development/artanoid-flash-arkanoid-game Back again, my pet tadpoles (they still haven't grown into frogs yet!). This time I am going to explain the actionscript that makes them move, turn and run from the mouse. Firstly, heres an example of what they do (move your mouse over them and watch 'em swim away): [swf]http://www.samburdge.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/tadpoles2.swf,540,360,8,#000000[/swf] The first ... http://www.samburdge.co.uk/development/flash-random-motion-and-rotation-actionscript-2 Q. How can I make an image or swf file load after a specified number of seconds? A. Use the simple but effective flash_timer.swf file by Sam Burdge. Whoopeee! Ever wanted a particular Flash movie or image to load up / start playing after the rest of your page has loaded, ... http://www.samburdge.co.uk/development/time-delay-loading-for-swf-files-and-images svgallery=nice_pics http://www.samburdge.co.uk/gallery/nice-monaco-2008