* visit to read the full version story at :: http://www.kroative.com/kroative_versionstory.txt Kroative Portfolio (www.kroative.com) Website Designed by Francisco Jose Casares Website Coding by Francisco Jose Casares Flash Design & Animation by Francisco Jose Casares All works are Copyright 2007-2010 - Francisco Jose Casares Ph: 04 1520 9197 Email: contact@kroative.com Changes to be done Before Version 3.050 is released:: All projects diferent departments must have new thumbnails and be organized with new descriptions, tittles and new links: -For Graphic and Web Design there is a lot to work on and I may need particular work into it. I need things like Pulp Pixel, Enris Restaurant, Alina's Poster. Some works may be seen in other departments. I may Reduce the number to 9. Id like to extend my Portfolio one day to include more works in this department, and with time break it into two sections: Graphic Design And Web Design. -Illustration and Logos. Mostly everything that is done with Vector and for logos will come in here. I need to put most works I can find in this cathegory. One day I will break this Section as well Into: Vector Illustration and Logo Design. -Validade All Projects pages and Home. If I want a perfect page I should validade everything. Future Changes. After V.3.055? -Incorporate Kroative Satelites in Contact Flash Banner and add A semi-Animation (stars glittering, girls cloth moving, plants moving) -Create a new Banner ready to be animated in diferent layers for Projects Section. (Long term change) -Create Skills Section (Next Section to be build no.1) -Create Biography Section (Next Section to be build after Skills Section) -Create Updates Section (Next Section to be build after Biography Section) -Incorporate the Latest Update in Home and add a "more updates" Button Underneath the Lates Update.(After Updates Section is complete) -Incorporate a guestbook with past clients explaining their experience with their projects in the Contact Section (After Skills, Biography and Updates Sections are done) -Check Brower Copability with Firefox and IE8. And then check with minor browsers like safari, chrome, IE5,6 And 7, Opera. -More? Version story. I have worked with many diferent versions since I have back-tracked a version story and number, because I think its important to write down the further changes I will write now from now on the subtle changes that I undergo with Kroative. Version 3.050 -Digital Arts is done, I picked new thumbnails for a fresh look at the page. Descriptions and links added. -Latest Projects is done. I may increase the number from 12 to 15. (When I may have some new works or I complete some that are U/C) -Glow International is done. I may include the flash link one day with the proper animation flash (if I decide to complete or polish) -Changed the contact details in all xhtml pages from krotana@hotmail.com to contact@kroative.com -Created a U/C Page for Skills, Biography and Updates. -Updated Skills, Biography and Updates to have the under_cons.htm link in all links -Created a *Thank you for sending a Message to Kroative* Page for after sending a Email -Created a *Why there is a Validation Code* Page for Customer Information -Added new custom error pages (400,401,403 and 404) instead of using the H-Sphere error window. -Added new emails for a better Kroative flow: pacocasares@kroative.com . All Emails that start with: contact, paco, paquito, casares, pc, & francisco with @kroative.com will all send the email to such adress. (alliases) -Added Mini Kroative Logo Next to the Copyright Info -Added Custom made Website Icon For Taskbar (!) -Added Copyright & All rights reserved in the bottom area -Added custom made Validaded W3C Icons in the bottom area -Validaded using W3C validator: -master.css -index.htm -projects.htm -Recreated Thumbnails using diferert angles/view point for a refresing Thumbnail view. People will be able to recognize the work but may bring a second interest to see it this time when the load to the diferent department. (I think this is a brilliant Idea and the purpose of just moving out of locacion now makes sence, its like looking at a whole new page with new works to look at, it at least makes browsing more interesting.) -Created a "thumbless" Image to remake the Thumbnails in a refresing way. -Added a version number to indentify each version story, with this I will back-up every new version that I upload in a diferent folder. -Added a version story. Once I upload Biography, Skills, Updates all finally constructed with some stages of polishing I will have this records saved in the kroative_versionstory.txt -Created and finished building the Contact Section. It includes working Spry code and is highly interactive. It highlights what you are currently writing, what you have already written, what areas are typed in a wrong format or missing info and contains Hint text for the Input boxes. All this diferent stages of Highlights includes independent graphics and type colors, and when the Wrong format version is Highlighted a small error message is displayed next to the imput Area. Tested and works. Very happy with this :) This is surely a great Add to V.3.005 -Took off the Animation
  • in "It's time to prove". After some time I have been thinking that Animation projects are too big for the independent freelancer. I may do it with a group of profesionals or in a studio team. -Created and finished aplying: Latest Works, Digital + Concept Arts, Graphic + Web Design, Glow International (Temporaly accessable) And Illustration + Logo Design Departments. -Changed and added new works on Latest Works in the Home Section. -Changed the Font in the Thumbnails of Projects to something friendlier to read and Changed to small-caps to normal. -Changed the Background Image of the Thumbnails to something smoother and eye-catchier in the Projects Section -Added a hover funtionality in the Thumbnails of the Projects Section to something smooth and yet More Interactive. -Added a Navigation system to the diferent departments of Projects -Added funtionality Actionscript code to the banner of Projects to access to the diferent departments. (Similar to the Navigation System on the bottom) Version 0.0-3.04x Unrecorded Story Version, known changes and upgrades: -Diferent versions of Kroative, from a 100% Flash, to a table based html, to a hybrid of flash and css. I kept changing until I was satisfied to release to the public. -Diferent Designs of Kroative. I kept changing and restarting until I was happy. -Kroative Font Design -Arrows art -Fire Sky changes -Home Design and Coding -Projects Design and Coding -And much much more. -Version 1 was the flash site -Version 2 was the Table based website -Version 3 is now.kroative a version where I use my skills at my best to create a website to my best dedication. By "now" I mean a website that has to be released to the public already. I have made my self reach a really high standard for creating a website for my own to showcase my portfolio and it has taken longer than expected or desired. With this version when completed I will be able to rest asured that I can concentrate in other projects and being able to expand my knowledge and skills to improve uppon Digital Art and Videogame Art. Past Found Notes on Kroative. 8/11/2009: Hello! Well. now that Uni aplications have been sumitted I can continue to work. I must say. Most of my progress will now be included in the "completarioum" Website. A site designed to post progress of all my works. Today I have added the Contact div with all links working to it. Its time for people to call me to say hi :) 13/07/2009: Home department is completed. I have to look into on what is used on every page and what is used on every diferent department. With this with elements like "last works" on Home can be equaly used on "my projects page", so I must turn some of the elements used to be used several times on several pages by changing their names more often. What to do list: -Clean the HTML -Clean the CSS code -Clean unnecesary files and items -Test on all diferrent browsers -Copy files of current www.kroative.com -Upload kroative.now.v02 30/06/2009: Inserting bottomleft buttons 30/06/2009: After exploring the diferent kind of media "boxes" available out there I have found the best that suits for my website. Lightview solves my problems right away from resizing and antialising all the images and many other slight problems I had. The downfall is that I will have to maybe *buy* it... I dont want to really :/ The Lightview is properly installed in the Latest works despartment. Next and last thing to do in the home department is add the bottom left buttons. After this is building the next area: My projects. My projects will be the same as Latest works, but with 4 diferent sections or so to separate the media. This will be similar to what I had before on the net. Just images and images to show the works. 29/06/2009: I havent worked for the last few days on my now.kroative.02 webpage. I still have lots of things to do. I shall at least make the litebox work to see how that works. 17/06/2009 #2: Things to complete: -Creating same ul/li list buttons down/left at footer with the diferent sections links. -Adding links and images for the thumbnails created at "latest works" using lightbox (or alternative) -Must make sure is not higher than 700px or wider than 800px the images. 17/06/2009 #1: Progress: The index/home construction is close at being complete. Few things need to be done. Can as well use the same code and graphics to use to create the next to most important diferent sections: Projects and Contact -Projects will be very similar to what I had in the first version of Kroative, a display of all the difererent pieces of arts and designs. But this time organized in diferent departments. And inside this if more than 4 pieces of the same project, then organized by same project in name order. -Contact will contain a email form, a guestbook with past clients explaining their experience with the projects I completed for them and a example of the work I did for them. inserting bottom buttons at left area