Website Design Liskeard

The following code removed the border from flash files in i.e etc

Place this in the head tags:
<script type="text/javascript" src="scripts/swfobject.js" mce_src="scripts/swfobject.js"></script>
Place this in the body:

<p id="flash" class="wrap"><!-- this is where the flash will be placed put an image here for users who dont have flash --></p>
<script type="text/javascript"> var so = new SWFObject("flash/filename.swf", "nameofflash", "690", "220", "8", "#dbd9ca", "high"); so.write("flash"); </script>

Attached is the swf object script. Put this in a folder named scripts.

swfobject

Today we begin work on the new Falcon Ridge website for Dobwalls Adventure Park in Cornwall.

The site is going to be created using XHTML and CSS.

Here is a small screen shot of the homepage visual that will be used throughout the site.

The project has really come on since last week, all of the tweaking parts have been done to make the system reliable and completed. I have now updated the user uploads section with a new layout to keep in style with the readymade generator.

Image gallery template now complete: 

The flash file now includes 2 tutorial help sections for new users to help them understand what each section does, and how to make the most out of the search box.

One section is an illustrative part where each section is described in full, detailing each component (See below).

The other section contains 2 videos, one showing users how to perofm a search, the other detailing how to upload files to the online gallery.

I have finally come to a solution for displaying user readymade images. Using a flash file uploader and a php image gallery, users can now submit their readymade art works online. This is now linked in to the project and as you can see users have begun to start adding content.

The gallery displays the most recent art work first and displays the image name as the alt tag.

By using the flash uploader it allows the user to browse for files, upload and see the progress of the upload in %. Once their upload has been completed they will then be taken to the gallery page where their latest submission.

When the user clicks on an uploaded piece of art they will be taken to a larger view, this informs them when it was uploaded and shows the image in full size view.

Things starting to take shape

So finally the project is really starting to take shape.
The splash screen is where the user enters his/her search words, concepts and artists.

This now includes:
- Google image ripping
- Wikipedia content ripping
- Artquotes quote ripping

User interface
- 2x search fields
- Submit button
- Clear button
- Example search terms

The results page how has a fully functional user interface in which the user can select to show/hide images, group/ungroup images, show/hide text, search again, return to the main menu. This menu is partially hidden when not in use. This reduces the mediation of the created image as I wanted to keep the surrounding navigation to a bare minimum.

When the user enters his/her mouse into the top area the menu slides down allowing the user to make changes to the image created. This is an example of an image after grouping of the floating images has occurred.

This is done by layering the images on top of each other and applying an alpha transparency. This I plan to make dependant on the keywords results. If the image contains traces of the key word the alpha will be stronger. The image below is an example of the information retrieved from the keywords entered. After entering Conceptual Art and Duchamp you can see the Large Keyword displayed is in large green case.
The explanation for this word or phrase is pulled from wikipedia in the white text box area.

The words/image names displayed in orange have hyperlinked properties to them, linking the user with the location of the found image. The chunk of green text is a narrative created from the image names.

15 Hiding Places 
An interactive flash site which takes images from public-domain databases which is found through keyword searches on “science”, “museum”, and “specimen” the images are then compiled with fragmented phrases.

http://rhizome.org/artbase/45583/index.html
Valise in an iPod (ceci n’est pas une iPod)
”Valise in an iPod follows after Duchamp’s Readymade mini-museum, “Box in Valise” ( 1935-41 ). Valise in an iPod plays with the tension between the mass object and the reproducibility of the digital object, the promotional nature of consumer branding and the identity of the personal deice, as well as many other issues.”
http://www.voyd.com/voyd/ipod.htm
SCR
“Src is a blog of images: images are shown as mosaics of details, each then visible in entire. The blog is divided in two parts : “Public” where anyone can post an image and “Private” only modified by RD”
http://www.incident.net/works/src/
Weather Gauge
In Weather Gauge, numerical weather data from over 150 countries is simultaneously represented online forming an array of animated data referencing a huge global spread of live information. Each piece of weather data rotates between centigrade, Fahrenheit, local-time and city of origin, so when presented in this way, the whole field of information rhythmically evolves, offering viewers an unusual extended sense of context beyond the physical location of the work. 
http://www.weathergauge.net/
Chrissyland Inc.
Uses images from online and puts her self in them.
http://www.chrissyland.com

So after many more days and hours coding I now have English Wikipedia content being pulled into the ideas factory. You will see from the image below there is a large title in this case “Dada” this is pulled from the users initial search criteria and determines wether or not information will come from wikipedia or not. If the word entered is relevant then information will be displayed in the white scrollable box below.

Now ripping quotes Ok things are picking up and the project is moving on well, I have now coded all of the images to have nice light drop down shadows to give the appearance that they are floating. I have also managed to code into the project a way of obtaining quotes, this relies on accurate artist input but in the end works. The example below is a search for Duchamp. You will notice in the bottom left hand corner a small chunk of text. This is one of Duchamps quotes ripped from the Artistquotes.net website.

So eventually I have something working, at present the prototype is pulling in images from Googles image search, from this information the user can see the image names floating around the screen, hover over the images to make them larger. The image names have hyperlinks to google web search which provides a handy tool for finding more information regarding that image. Text in grey has no hyper linking properties and is just static.

The results are based on what the user enters at the start. So for this example I used Marcel and Duchamp the results returned at the moment are around 90% relevancy to the entered keywords. I intend to make this more precise to give the best relevant results.