Finally solved the problem I was having with my site. For the life of me I couldn't figure out how to make a category and subcategory system so I'm kind of cheating in a way. I decided I'm going to use the URL to help me using the 'GET' method in PHP. Only thing is though SQL injections are possible so I'll have to find a way to fix that. Maybe an if statement like:
if($cat == necklace || $cat == bracelet){
do code;
}
I'll think of something I suppose. It's all falling together slowly should be done in a few weeks.
Friday, 5 October 2012
Solution
Tuesday, 2 October 2012
Interactive Web History Piece
My idea for the interactive web history piece is not to have a time line per say but make the piece like a website. It'll have maybe a Facebook layout and where the news feed should be about uploads, status updates etc. I want to have all the history of the Worldwide Web. I'll post all my workings here when I work on it.
Another idea that I came up with is having a spiral effect timeline maybe like the picture below. I will put prominent points on the spiral of the timeline, then when someone has put the mouse over the point it will show the year and a little box of information about what happened. You can also click on the box to take you to a new page to read more information. Image Location
Monday, 1 October 2012
PayPal For My Website
It's 2:20am and I have college in about 6 and a half hours and I should probably sleep but ehhh, I'll live. Well anyway tonight I've been looking at different payment methods that I can have for my website. At first I was thinking about storing users bank details in one of my databases and then taking the money out manually but then I realised how risky that would be. I may know how to develop a system like that but no-where near to the security standards that would I'd need.
So I decided I would use PayPal to sort out all my problems only I didn't realise how complicated it actually is to set the functionality up on my site. Well saying that all the functionality will be there when I have to add it anyway so it'll just fit into place. But tonight I've been learning how I would set up the IPN payment method and I'm quite looking forward to it. It's going to be a challenge. In a few weeks I get to go and get my business bank account and then I'll be able to set up PayPal.
The good thing about PayPal is that when I create a business account it will automatically set up a book system which will measure all my incomings and outgoings which can make things a lot easier.
Architectual Design
The world is full of people who think outside the box. If it wasn't for these people we would probably still be sat in caves without any technology. Probably not even fire. This is what makes us humans different from many other animals.
Amazing examples of this is some of the architecture that humans come up with. Click Here. In my opinion these buildings are some of the best buildings in the world for what they are. Yet unfortunately they're not very suitable for the population this planet has. If every building looked like one of these building the ammount of time and effort we would have to spend on these buildings would be just too much although then we would be astonished by what we have at the moment as we wouldn't see it much.
My favourite building on this list is the Soundforms shell in London Docklands. The building looks truly amazing and so much time, effort and money has gone into it for the function of enhances classical and orchestral performances.
Sunday, 30 September 2012
Game Development
I have been researching how a video game is developed and found this video about how it's all done. This video that I have found shows the theory of what a video game actually is and how to create a game from scratch. It doesn't exactly show the initial ideas of how a game is thought up of but it shows the process of what you can do after you have the initial idea, concept arts, music etc.
Saturday, 29 September 2012
Video Research
Warning: Videos may contain strong language.
I was just looking around YouTube for video ideas and research as it looks like we're going to be doing a lot of that this year. I found a video that I really liked and I could possibly use it as research and inspiration. The videos below are animation videos
Here are some more music videos that I really like(kinetic typography). The lyrics on the screen usually have something to do with the song or lyrics at the exact time. It looks that this video may have been done on After Effects.
There are other videos around though that don't keep with the lyrics or what is being said. But towards the end of the video it all makes sense as to what happened. For example the video below. It don't really make sense throughout the video nor even at the end of the video but you get to see what the video is about or why it was made the way it was.
Even the fonts used in some videos and the colour explains what the talking is about or what type of movie it's from. For example the video below is from Full Metal Jacket. All the colours are army colours and even the stars that they used to censor out the word 'f**k' could be considered army stars.
Other videos have animations around the text or by the text that explain what is being said or gives you a visual representation of what is being said on the video. The video below is a perfect example.
Below is the music video that has inspired me the most. The video is called the Johnny Cash Project and is made up from thousands of individual artists drawing one frame of the video each. The video is made from the highest rated frames playing on the frame that they should be played on. For more information Click Here.
Action List For Personal Site
I'm building a site that I hope to be up and running by the end of November and here's the action plan of how the site is coming along right now. It says what I've done, and what I need to do. I'll be updating this post just like my other post showing the image progress of how I'm doing in more detail.
To do list:
Not Mandatory but will work to get them done eventually:
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