http://www.trevorfischer.com The weblog of Canadian web and graphic designer Trevor Fischer. Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:21:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.trevorfischer.com/2009/12/21/trade-show-kiosk-game/ http://www.trevorfischer.com/2009/12/21/trade-show-kiosk-game/#comments Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:02:22 +0000 Trevor http://www.trevorfischer.com/?p=1156 hushMedia wanted to provide a more entertaining way to distribute promotional items for one of their clients so they hired my company to create a trade show kiosk game. The backgrounds and prize revealing videos were created by 1UP Creations while I wrote the Flash ActionScript 3 code that powers the game and added special effects such as the elevator climbing animation, pulsing logo and red hover states for the buttons.]]> http://www.trevorfischer.com/2009/12/21/trade-show-kiosk-game/feed/ 0 http://www.trevorfischer.com/2009/12/03/planit-site-goes-live/ http://www.trevorfischer.com/2009/12/03/planit-site-goes-live/#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:07:57 +0000 Trevor http://www.trevorfischer.com/?p=1145 Today the PLANiT Measuring site that I redesigned for Modern Empire went live.]]> http://www.trevorfischer.com/2009/12/03/planit-site-goes-live/feed/ 0 http://www.trevorfischer.com/2009/08/25/current-project-planit-measuring/ http://www.trevorfischer.com/2009/08/25/current-project-planit-measuring/#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:33:53 +0000 Trevor http://www.trevorfischer.com/?p=1076 Modern Empire Inc. has hired me to work on a site for one of their clients, Planit Measuring. As part of a marketing overhaul being overseen by Modern Empire we're doing a redesign, adding some flash elements as well as incorporating an easily updatable News page and password protected Client Area. Planit produces "real-time, digital floor plans for all property types across North America. Using our patent-pending...]]> http://www.trevorfischer.com/2009/08/25/current-project-planit-measuring/feed/ 1 http://www.trevorfischer.com/2009/08/12/flash-website-for-club-ash-bar-lounge/ http://www.trevorfischer.com/2009/08/12/flash-website-for-club-ash-bar-lounge/#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:39:41 +0000 Trevor http://www.trevorfischer.com/?p=1061 It's been a long time since I've updated the site. Work has been keeping me extremely busy. One of my most recent projects has been a flash website for Club Ash Bar & Lounge, a new club opening in Barrie, Ontario this fall. I'm pleased to announce that the site is now complete and online. The site features, a music player, on-line VIP sign up, reservations and job applications as well as restaurant and bottle service menus updated from xml... ]]> http://www.trevorfischer.com/2009/08/12/flash-website-for-club-ash-bar-lounge/feed/ 0 http://www.trevorfischer.com/2009/06/01/a-video-for-freelancers-everywhere/ http://www.trevorfischer.com/2009/06/01/a-video-for-freelancers-everywhere/#comments Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:40:35 +0000 Trevor http://www.trevorfischer.com/?p=1047 exactly the same thing to me while discussing a potential web design project.]]> http://www.trevorfischer.com/2009/06/01/a-video-for-freelancers-everywhere/feed/ 1 http://www.trevorfischer.com/2009/04/20/some-orphaned-designs/ http://www.trevorfischer.com/2009/04/20/some-orphaned-designs/#comments Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:48:47 +0000 Trevor http://www.trevorfischer.com/?p=894 One of the pitfalls of being a freelancer is that, on occasion, you run into situations where it's necessary to do some work to get some work. By that I mean, you have to attend meetings, prepare design sketches and present them to a client all before being paid a penny. Some times this pays off and some times it doesn't. When it doesn't, you find yourself in possession of "orphans", designs that are doomed to walk the earth, never fully realized and unattached to a project. This is the story of just such a scenario and the designs that resulted.]]> http://www.trevorfischer.com/2009/04/20/some-orphaned-designs/feed/ 0 http://www.trevorfischer.com/2009/04/14/life-after-40/ http://www.trevorfischer.com/2009/04/14/life-after-40/#comments Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:33:03 +0000 Trevor http://www.trevorfischer.com/?p=867 I have found that, since turning forty, it's become a lot harder to keep on top of all the hair that's suddenly sprouting up all over my body. It's like some sort of late-onset puberty. This post demonstrates a typical scenario.]]> http://www.trevorfischer.com/2009/04/14/life-after-40/feed/ 0 http://www.trevorfischer.com/2009/04/09/photoblog-designs/ http://www.trevorfischer.com/2009/04/09/photoblog-designs/#comments Fri, 10 Apr 2009 02:39:01 +0000 Trevor http://www.trevorfischer.com/?p=767 My sister had a baby last year and immediately caught the photography bug. She's taken some amazing photos with her digital SLR camera and has decided that she wants a serious venue to display her shots. She's found a number of photoblogs she admires and has ask me to design one for her. The sites she likes are all wide, one column designs and she wants to have a nice animated flash box in the header.]]> http://www.trevorfischer.com/2009/04/09/photoblog-designs/feed/ 0 http://www.trevorfischer.com/2009/03/23/my-life-in-music-the-monkees-collection-incident/ http://www.trevorfischer.com/2009/03/23/my-life-in-music-the-monkees-collection-incident/#comments Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:24:33 +0000 Trevor http://www.trevorfischer.com/?p=676 http://www.trevorfischer.com/2009/03/23/my-life-in-music-the-monkees-collection-incident/feed/ 0 http://www.trevorfischer.com/2009/02/09/it-steals-your-money-part-2/ http://www.trevorfischer.com/2009/02/09/it-steals-your-money-part-2/#comments Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:48:57 +0000 Trevor http://www.trevorfischer.com/?p=661 last entry through Google Translate to see if I could get a better idea of what it read.  The result was much more natural in tone but I still don't know what the spammer was trying to achieve.  The Google translation was as follows: ]]> http://www.trevorfischer.com/2009/02/09/it-steals-your-money-part-2/feed/ 0