Image Map

In addition to using text to hyperlink, I switched it up a little and used an image map with hotspots; this located in Board Members page of my site.  The photo I chose was suppose to be tongue and cheek.  Since the theme was Old Time Photography, I used a photo of some old time photographers to graphically represent the trustees of the club's board.  If you hover your mouse over some of these gentlemen and then click, it will send you to their bio on the same page. 

My New Web Site

I just finished my Web site. Although I am using the same domain name, the site has totally been reconstructed. Please visit and poke around a bit.  Also use the Membership application form to leave a comment about the site. I will write some subsequent posts on the technical aspects of building the site.  


I do want to begin by writing about how I got to the theme of the Web site.  I really was not too happy with my first idea, which was the chronicling of a novice Web designer using specific software. For this reason, I decided to use the previous site as a way to complete the tutorials and then start all over with a new Web site for my project. 


After a week or two, I came up with the idea of a group of people wanting to preserve an art form that is becoming extinct and this is film photography. Kodak's January 2012 bankruptcy claim is the testament that this art form will to die off soon since the largest film manufacturer will no longer be there to support it. However, I have a great deal of respect and admiration for diehards not wanting to relent to pixels, so here it is the  theme of my Web site; a film photography club. I am just sorry that this is fictional.  I have not been in a darkroom for over twenty years and would really like to pick it up again ( I still have my stainless steel developer cans and my Nikon FM10 SLR).  I wish there were such a club in my town.  Maybe when I retire I can start one.  


Well anyway please visit and here is the link:  http://www.vlayag.com/ .  

Godzilla Files

I loved the idea of being able to make animated graphics with Flash, although I have only made two so far.  One the button which worked great providing I don't add the doorbell chime and the other was the pencil.  The button was killing me and I could not leave it alone and double checked my code as Katy's suggested.  So far it is still not working.  I have abandoned this for now and moved on.


So off to the next tutorial, which was how to make a video for the Web with Flash.  Super cool since I wanted to incorporate a video in my blog. This was going  to be a 4 minute presentation  heavy with graphics and other videos and some text and a soundtrack of me narrating.


I used Prezi, a presentation software to create the show and then used Jing to record the slideshow presentation with a soundtrack.  I really liked the way it turned out, but the file was huge 182MB large and it would not play smoothly on my blog.  I thought maybe it was the photos, but Prezi automatically compressed the images into smaller file sizes.  I found out from a friend that SWF are typically mega-large and are really not Web friendly for videos.  Now off to make the file smaller and optimize it for the Web.  I thought since Flash creates SWF files it might open them to make it editable.  It did not UGHHH!!!!  I scouted around for free software and found one that I was able to reduce the size to 30 MB.  Wow...now that's compression.


Here are the links to Prezi and Jing.   They are super neat tools that help with incorporating neat features to your blog or Web site.

Prezi Presentation

Jing Screen Capture

An Interactive Feature-The Feedback Form

Click on this link http://www.vlayag.com/ to see my Web site progress.  Also, it would be great if you can fill out a feedback form.