Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Glog Reflection

This was one of those assignments that was cool in concept but not in practice. We had to make an online "poster" type thing called a Glog. It's really hard to explain, if you've ever messed around with any photoshop type program, it makes more sense. I could basically describe it as an online scrapbook page experience: lots of little images and whatnot to play around with for effect. When I started, I got really excited to get all creative up in this bitch, but as I got deeper into trying to put the damn thing together I got frustrated. I dont know what was wrong with this website, but I had to keep reloading the page because the flash sucks. Maybe thats why it's still in beta, I dont know, but I spent more time waiting for the page to reload, or load, or wonder why the entire thing was just white. I basically had everything I wanted to put on it all ready, screen shots, text etc. The problem was the actual functioning of the flash. It loads super slow and half the time when I left the page for a different tab, to take a screenshot and whatnot, it caused the glog I was working on to crash. Thank goodness for the autosave or I would have been screwed seven million times over. I was ready to bash my face into my keyboard by the end of the night, I just wanted it done. I eventually had to open glogster in Safari and it worked better, but it was frustrating that it wasn't compatible with Chrome. And even then, it took forever to upload my images. I would love to try this again of the flash worked correctly. So you can go check out this "masterpiece" by clicking the following link 

-->Coordinate Glog<-- 

If I had more patience with the internet and flash, it's be SO much prettier. But hey, it gets the job done I suppose. Yay graphs....... yeish.

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