Here is the link to the in-development website for the Peanuts Electronic Monument:
http://www.wix.com/stephenjlind/Peanuts-Gallery
Note: I am conscious of my choice to use a WYSIWYG platform to create the site, as opposed to coding/scripting the site "by hand." I am torn on this issue. I began constructing the site in Adobe Flash (which I have used before, long long ago when it was Macromedia, though I remember just about nothing from that use), and as I searched through tutorials to understand the not-so-user-friendly Adobe Flash, I came across Wix. Now, I knew that I wanted a Flash site. There are certain media-esque qualities of a flash site that fit my purposes much more immediately (both functionally and aesthetically), given the content of my monument. That meant I would be doing scripting in Flash as opposed to say HTML coding in Dreamweaver - either way, getting my hands dirty. However, I would be taking shortcuts along the way, using pre-defined motion paths to get me started, then making alterations in order to customize and personalize the material. I mean I was certainly not going to simply open up Dreamweaver and ONLY stay in the coding window the whole time -- I would be using the program to help me achieve the desired ends. Well, when I stumbled upon Wix, I saw that desired End much more immediately than I had before. I chose to use Wix because it allows me to focus more time on Design than Coding. I manipulated the material on Wix such that I certainly did not just plug my pictures into a predefined template... but all the while, I did not code the site. I guess this work is closer to the "cake-from-a-box" end of the spectrum than the "cake-from-scratch" end. I am torn between "getting my hands dirty with the process" and "getting to my desired product." Either way I am using a tool to create the product I want... the tool I have used at this point has simply left my hands a little less dirty....
hmm.....
Note: I am conscious of my choice to use a WYSIWYG platform to create the site, as opposed to coding/scripting the site "by hand." I am torn on this issue. I began constructing the site in Adobe Flash (which I have used before, long long ago when it was Macromedia, though I remember just about nothing from that use), and as I searched through tutorials to understand the not-so-user-friendly Adobe Flash, I came across Wix. Now, I knew that I wanted a Flash site. There are certain media-esque qualities of a flash site that fit my purposes much more immediately (both functionally and aesthetically), given the content of my monument. That meant I would be doing scripting in Flash as opposed to say HTML coding in Dreamweaver - either way, getting my hands dirty. However, I would be taking shortcuts along the way, using pre-defined motion paths to get me started, then making alterations in order to customize and personalize the material. I mean I was certainly not going to simply open up Dreamweaver and ONLY stay in the coding window the whole time -- I would be using the program to help me achieve the desired ends. Well, when I stumbled upon Wix, I saw that desired End much more immediately than I had before. I chose to use Wix because it allows me to focus more time on Design than Coding. I manipulated the material on Wix such that I certainly did not just plug my pictures into a predefined template... but all the while, I did not code the site. I guess this work is closer to the "cake-from-a-box" end of the spectrum than the "cake-from-scratch" end. I am torn between "getting my hands dirty with the process" and "getting to my desired product." Either way I am using a tool to create the product I want... the tool I have used at this point has simply left my hands a little less dirty....
hmm.....
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