Flashing Graphics

Talk about learning. I had an insane learning curve on Adobe Flash. I couldn't really remember how to make the interactive graphics when our professor Jen Reeves showed us earlier in the semester. Thankfully, some of my classmates were able to help me figure it out.

It's a completely repetitive process, so eventually I was able to get it together. I would just repeat the steps over and over out-loud... the newsroom must of thought I was crazy because I was just sitting at dotcom talking to myself, and every so often would holler or shreak because I would figure something out or make a mistake. I might add this was after the ten, so the few people in the newsroom were probably just as sleep deprived as me.

Finally, after about an hour of tinkering, I finally had a product, but I didn't like it. It was a standard flash rollover graphic and popped up boxes. It worked... it did the job... but it was BORING. So then for another hour and a half, I tinkered with a picture element that I added to the boxes. Eventually, I liked what I had, although I will say, I came back the next day and continued to tinker with it because I had some personal control issues with where the elements popped up.

Now I don't want to give away my surprise picture element, so go look at it! Visit KOMU.com by clicking here. It gives you a direct link to the graphic.