Wednesday, August 17, 2005
Back to the Drawing Board
11:47 PM
It has only been a couple weeks and I think I am already tired with the recent overhaul of my blog. Does this mean I will be going back to the old static blog? NO! I am proud of all I have learned so far and what I have been able to do. Just getting the thing to function correctly was a big job. But when I sit back and look at it there are only a couple things that I have implemented that couldn't be done with normal old HTML. I like the intro movie and I put some work into that to make it from scratch but it doesn't really fit the theme of the rest of the site. In fact I am not sure if I even have a theme other than just grey and green. So once again I head back to the drawing board. I have taken a break from Eric Liddell and have been reading a book about developing a Flash site that Boone let me borrow. He was fortunate enough to find a copy of it for only $1. The author is also the founder and president of http://hookumu.com/ an award winning web development firm. I think that someday I would enjoy being on a team like this or even creating my own sites. I am going to sit down and start designing my own site as a demo/portfolio.
I will continue to blog and I will continue to keep improving this site with occasional small usability improvements but for the most part you shouldn't be expecting too much. As always, please let me know if there is something that you feel this site is missing. If it is easy enough I will make a quick update. To be completely honest I have been playing the latest Star Wars game on Xbox and I must say it is pretty addictive. I figure I am about halfway through it so for now the Flash is kind of taking a back seat. I was just spending too much time trying to learn it so for now I am focusing on designing the site and then I will start building it.
If you can read this then it probably means that my latest update is working correctly. Flash likes to cache files on your hard drive. When you navigate to my site your browser will check and see if you have a version of my site saved already. If you do it will just use the one you have saved. It doesn't bother to see if it is the latest version or not. This is great for things like pictures that never change. Your computer won't have to download them every time you visit and this saves both load time and bandwidth. But since a blog is a dynamic text box that is constantly being updated you want to download the file every time to make sure that you have the most current post. I have been working to implement a work around for this to make sure that you can read all my posts since I figure that is why you are here. If you just popped in and suddenly had 3-4 posts to read up on I apologize. I was building this thing piece by piece and I didn't realize that caching was going to be a problem. Thanks for sticking it out.
I will continue to blog and I will continue to keep improving this site with occasional small usability improvements but for the most part you shouldn't be expecting too much. As always, please let me know if there is something that you feel this site is missing. If it is easy enough I will make a quick update. To be completely honest I have been playing the latest Star Wars game on Xbox and I must say it is pretty addictive. I figure I am about halfway through it so for now the Flash is kind of taking a back seat. I was just spending too much time trying to learn it so for now I am focusing on designing the site and then I will start building it.
If you can read this then it probably means that my latest update is working correctly. Flash likes to cache files on your hard drive. When you navigate to my site your browser will check and see if you have a version of my site saved already. If you do it will just use the one you have saved. It doesn't bother to see if it is the latest version or not. This is great for things like pictures that never change. Your computer won't have to download them every time you visit and this saves both load time and bandwidth. But since a blog is a dynamic text box that is constantly being updated you want to download the file every time to make sure that you have the most current post. I have been working to implement a work around for this to make sure that you can read all my posts since I figure that is why you are here. If you just popped in and suddenly had 3-4 posts to read up on I apologize. I was building this thing piece by piece and I didn't realize that caching was going to be a problem. Thanks for sticking it out.
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I think that might have happened to me. I didn't see anyposts until I checked your blog at work.
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