AS3: Dynamic Textfield + Buttonmode = fail

Just in case this annoys you like too:

If you have a Sprite or Movieclip that contains a dynamic textfield and

mc_name.buttonMode = true;

doesn’t work, simply add

mc_name.mouseChildren = false;

and voila, the cursor transforms into the hand again.

Long time no see

I haven’t updated this blog in a while now because a. I was buried in projects and b. I finally left Germany for good and moved to London, which was quite a time (and money ) consuming undertaking.

Amongs the last projects I did in Germany were a product video for Harting to showcase their RFID-Suite haVis at their booth at the Hannover Messe in Germany, the frontend for a soon-to-go-live Drupal site and a Flash site – I’ll update the portfolio as soon as possible.

Now I’m looking for work here in London, but I guess after yesterdays football match Germans aren’t exactly welcome anymore … maybe I should move on and try my luck in Scotland

WordPress Quicktip: Wrong links in uploaded images

If you uploaded an image and gave it an external Link WordPress (at least here) puts its own site-link (www.interzone-media.com) in front of the link if you forget the http

So, for example I uploaded a picture in my portfolio and gave it the link www.nacht-und-nebel.org and WordPress changed it to www.interzone-media.com/www.nacht-und-nebel.org  – that can be fixed by using http://www.nacht-und-nebel.org

Flash, WordPress, Drupal – what to use when?

As I’ve just followed a discussion in the Flash Freelancer group over at LinkedIt.com about whether or not Flash is always the right solution for every job I thought I give a brief recommendation about which technology I’d use depending on what you need:

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Flash and Google

For a while now Google is capable of indexing Flash-sites which led to a way better index ranking. I’m not entirely sure how the crawling works, however it seems that for texts it uses simple copy and paste: All flash-sites I designed where I set the textfields to selectable get indexed fully with text excerpts just like “normal” websites, whereas those where I had non-selectable textfields only get shown with minimal information.

This works with both static as well as dynamic texts from xml-files or databases.

Happy New Year

New year, new website!

From now on I will showcase my portfolio here as well as write about webdesign, development and media in general.