Week 10: Portfolio Breakthroughs

This week, I continued to work on my portfolio site. I added a few pieces of paper and drawings to the background that is behind the book on the opening page. I also added the link that will open the book so the pieces can be seen. For the sake of time, I've given up making an animation of the book moving from laying closed to sitting up open. Instead, the view will just switch from one view to the other with no animation in between. Considering that change, I also added a background of scattered papers and pencils to the main part of the portfolio. Here are some screenshots of the background and a link to the opening page of my portfolio:I also fixed the problem of the next and back buttons not working if you clicked a tab first. Of course, the solution was something incredibly simple that never would have occurred to me. I simply masked the back button of the first page and the next button on the last page. They are still there and can still be clicked, but I'm the only one who know they're there. Before, clicking on the pieces in the book opened a larger version, so the details could be seen. I couldn't figure out where to put the code to get back to the main portfolio, though, with the child or the parent. It didn't seem to matter where I put it, I got an error message that the return button wasn't being detected. I finally realized that the code I was using was looking for a button to be clicked on when I didn't have a button. I deleted the code that looked for a particular button and asked it, instead, to just listen for a click anywhere as the cue to return to the parent. That fixed that problem. Here is a link to the page with working children:

The problem I''ve been having with the page turning animation is still something I haven't figured out. I left that alone this week in favor of working on other things that I thought I could solve fairly easily. The fix for the problem with the back button on the first page gave man an idea, though. It may be a question of creating a mask of some sort in the page turning animaton that will keep the content from being seen until the page finishes turning. If that works, I really only have to put a resume on the page I've reserved for it; and I think my portfolio will be done.