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ReBirth Website launched!

June 27th, 2007

Now, finally managed to finish off the ReBirth website.

I started with collecting the portfolio pieces in PhotoShop, making one long horizontal layer which I later imported into Flash where I wrote an ActionScript to follow the mouse scrolling the masked layer to the left and right instead of using the typical horizontal scrollbar. When all the portfolio movies were done, I made one main movie which loads/unloads all the respective movies.

To hang it all together, I was searching a bit before stumbling over the oh so fabulous Mootools. It’s basically a whole bunch of different JavaScripts you can choose from a library. The advantage with that is that since it’s JavaScript the file almost weights nothing and it’s read by all browsers and all systems. No plug-ins needed, no hassle involved.

Wanted the site to be as user friendly as possible and at the same time playful, and the Mootools were just a perfect choice for that. Everything is condensed into one page, with the Flash portfolio on top, then some info about us, a table with all of our clients completely stylized in CSS, followed by an Ajax contact form where I had to add a JavaScript validation in Dreamweaver.

What more? Oh ja, a script that randomly changes one of my 3 background images onLoad, very OldSchool. Still have a few minor changes to do but at least it’s now up there and live!

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