I have added a date-chooser source fla to the source file's section. I have been using this on several projects latley and is working a charm. I have also made up a simple tracker view that displays some of the data i collect when a user visit the site. You can see the datechooser in action by clicking on the top left of the site where it display's when the site was last updated.

The source files section is now open. There is a variety of source files to check out. Ranging from simple flash forums to the global map guestbook. Some are free and some you will need to purchase.
If your looking to purchase any the files that are for sale then you will first need to register on the site.

Well it's took the best part of a year and learning to other codng languages and it's nearly here.
Yes that's right i am just about ready to launch the first major update to the site in 4 years.

I am currently working final tests on Flash media server and just making sure that everything is working as it should.
There is a couple of sections of the site have still to be finalized but i can live with that as long as the rest is ok.

What can you expect to see in the new site:

- A new news and information page that outlines the which sections have been most recently updated.
- Improved forum with more functionality added.
- Brand new video gallery and player.
- Improved Global guestbook
- New fullscreen option availble to flash player 9. The option to toggle fullscreen can be found when you rightclick the mouse. One resrtiction to the fullscreen option is that there in no keyboard input event's allowed execpt for the 'esc' key.
- A new source files section where you can download source files. Some are for free and some you will have to pay for. I have the site linked upto paypal and have a bussines acount there. This section is one that is still being worked on but i hope to have it live before the end of the year.
- Some really cool stuff with Flash media server but i cant go into any details about that just yet

It's been a crazy 9 months but i am glad to say that i have finally got some time to get back to working on getting updates for innovativedesigns inplace.

Work is still in the early stages with implementing Flash Media Server into the site but i am happy with the progress i am making with it so far. I cant say yet what functions this is going bring to the site.

Work has also started on a brand spanking new video and photo gallery that will take advantage of Flash 9 H.264 for video playback in fullscreen mode.

On a final note you may notice over the coming weeks that some parts of the site stop working or that access to the site is closed. This will only be temporary.

Yes the end is in sight. I have been working hard the past few months developing a Flash Media Server app for Theory7. It's been great to be giving the opertunity to develop a large scale app using Flash Media Server.

There have been a few ups and downs but i am glad to see there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

For those of you that are intrested in FMS and would like to know more i have created this thread of quick links.



So whats next?

I would like to get the site updated with the modifications i did to the site apps last year.

I would like to see some of my FMS work appear on here. Not quite sure what yet but you can be sure that there will be someting. So keep checking back.

I hope we all had a good christmas. Well New year is just round the corner and i did plan to have the redesign ready for launch tomorrow. I've had to put this back due to new work commitments in the new year.
I can say that at 75of the work has been done but key areas need finishing beore it is ready to go live.
On another note I can tell you that all went well with the launch of the new scottish flash developers forum. scotflash.co.uk

For the past 3 weeks i have been hard at work on brining innovativedesigns up to player 8 coding standards. I have also decide to take this time to give each section of the site an overhaul.

What can you expect with the changes:
- First off you will need to have flash player 8 installed. This wont be an issue for most peeps and for the ones that don't have player 8 i will be using the express install function so that there is never the need to leave the site.

- Smoother effects of fading and dragging windows and general less cpu usage.

- Easier to use upload image feature for user images(forum avatar).

- New user profile and registration system.

- Updated forum with working (as) code and (php) highlight tagging "a must for the update". File attachment feature will also be added for forum post's as well as enabling smiley's

- Comments can be posted on news blogs (registered users only)

- New tutorials and source fla's section. Some source fla's can be only purchased though there will be plenty of free one's. There will also be the option for innovativedesigns members to be able to add there own tutorials to this section.

- New paypal shopping cart system to purchase fla's

- Updated GPS Guestbook.

- Video gallery will see a move from using converted swf's to flv.

- New section covering service's offered by innovativedesigns. Believe it or not we do actually build website's!.

- There will be no change on how the site looks.

So all that and hopfully before the end of the year.

WoW what a busy 3 months it has been!!!
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I have been made hyper moder on FLASHMOVE.COM and on http://www.flashgroup.net. Two great development help forums. Also peep's that are looking to learn flash+php might wont to check out http://www.sephiroth.it.
Came across the site recently and found it very usuful since it is only flash and php development. Much like innovativedesign ---
I have also been doing a lot of devlopment for theory7.com. cant beleive i have been working for them for nearly a year already.
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One of the hardest projects i had over the summer was to built a life cover calculator for scottish widows. The calculator had to be completly accessible to screen readers and the like.
The calculator can be found here.
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I also want to take a moment to mention a very cool peice of software that i can across.
I recently switch ISP then found that they were very poor with caching so this made test site's very teadiuos.
The software is called Charles and can be found at http://xk72.com/charles/
Charles is an HTTP proxy / HTTP monitor / Reverse Proxy that enables a developer to view all of the HTTP traffic between their machine and the Internet. This includes requests, responses and the HTTP headers (which contain the cookies and caching information).
Charles can act as a man-in-the-middle for HTTP/SSL communication, enabling
you to debug the content of your HTTPS sessions.
Charles Also simulates modem speeds by effectively throttling your bandwidth and introducing latency, so that you can experience an entire website as a modem user might (bandwidth simulator).
Charles is especially useful for Macromedia Flash developers as you can view the contents of LoadVariables, LoadMovie and XML loads. This is a must for any flash developer that are experincing problems with caching when testing projects online.

Wow just happen to be looking throught he news blogg today and noticed that innovativedesigns is 4 years old today.

So a big happy birthday to my website

I never thought that the site would be online for so long nor that i would have been working for one of the companies that first inspired me to start in the flash place.
As quoted by someone!

"Find a job you love and you will never work a day in your life"

After 5 years at my current address i am moving. The time has come to get somewhere just that little bit bigger. I will be sad to leave behind some fond memorie's.
well with a move comes change. I am currently working on a great new design for innovativedesigns. I will be keeping the current window mode but cutting out a lot of the gunff. I hope to get some preview picures added to the gallery over the next coule of weeks as well as trying to get the new design inplace by the end of summer.

I have added a little picture gallery.
I recently got a digital camera so I wanted to add some the picures that i have been taking plus some display some of the cool snaps from the F1 world.
The gallery also features a slide show function.

It has been a long 4 months but it is finally here. Hope to get some video and images added later today.

Wow what a day that was. Up at 6am to get a flight to London. I had never been to the big city before and was very nervous about it. I couldn't believe when I arrived at London Heathrow that it was colder than it was up here in Scotland.
The meeting was a real buzz and it was great to meet the guys behind T7.
Essentially the meeting was for the guys to get feel of what I was about and were I was coming from. I was made to feel very welcome and was even made coffee not just ordinary Nescafe! but 2 coffee brands mixed together, really need to get that secretary sorted out guys lol
It looks like it's going to be a really good year for innovativedesign and I look forward to future meetings with the T7 guys.

With that i will never try and travel back and forth from London in the same day. That was some trip.

That was close.
After a big server crash at the weekend i was luckly to have taken a recent backup. Thankfully nothing was lost, apart from some hours. Anyway in the process of making sure all was ok i went ahead and added the chat app.
Only registerd usre can use the chat app. After a few weeks this will be narrowed down to only active users.
Chat is is still in testing stages so please report any bugs you find...

I wanted to add a F1 calender for sometime. Finally got the chance to get it done before the season starts.
The calendar displays countdown to F1 season start as well as all dates for the 2006 calendar. I will also be linking up the video gallery with top clips from each races.
I am also working on a picture gallery and all being well this section will be linked to the calendar.

I am currently putting the finishing touchs to a chat application. The chat app will be online in the next couple of days hopfully.

I hope you all had a good christmas and a not a bad hangover in the new year.
Well 2nd day of the new year and it is time to get started again.

Lets of this year is a busy fun money making year

Damn that was fun!
It was a bit cold but well worth it.

Mitchelhill Flats came down in sequentially block 3, 5, 7, 9, 11
It was a great to see and the footage I got can be viewed in the video gallery in the misc section.
I would also like to thank gleegieboy of future Glasgow for supplying the background images

Yup the five tower blocks on the background image are coming down this weekend. There has been rumour after rumour as to when this was going to happen.
The tower blocks have been empty and ready since the summer. It now looks as if this weakend is going to be the big one. There is no news as to whether all five are coming down at once or one after the other. Either way it's going to be fun to watch. The five blocks Tower over Glasgow and can bee seen from just about anywhere in Glasgow. All being well I hope to get the footage onto added to the video gallery this weekend. If anybody is in the Glasgow area this Sunday and gets any footage or photo's of the demolition if you could send me it that would be great.

The word is Sunday 12 noon.

I have now added a video gallery. the gallery consists of 4 sections:
Formula 1, Tv Adverts, Plain funny and Misc.
If you feel that you have a clip that you would like to see added. You can email me using the contact form.

After 5 years helping out on the Flash forums and getting help myself i finally get moderator status.
FlashMove.com A great source for help and everything Flash...
I have been hard at it the past couple of weeks working on a new video gallery. I hope to get this up by the end of the week 21st November. So be sure to check back. It's going to be great!!

Yes as of the 7th of October Innovativedesigns has joined forces with theory7

It's been 3 years since I first saw theory7 and used it as my inspiration to learn flash and build this site.
It's great that I have something I can bring to the company that inspired me to learn flash in the first place.
While I still expect to keep development on the go here I look forward to the challanges that i will face with theory7.

Well that took quicker than i thought it would.
User regisration has been updated and now all new accounts will require activation before post's can be made on the forum. This will also be the case for the shopping cart(still being worked on).

There was some data loss during the transfer of the forum tables. I dont think it cause much case for concern since forum post are minimul.

You might have noticed that certain sections of the site are no longer accessible. This is to allow for a much needed updated of the backend system.

What's to be done:

Re-work of user registration process, all current records will be carried over to the new database.
Shopping cart to be added.
Forum tweaking.

I am hoping that this will take no longer than a couple of weeks.

I would also like to take the chance to thank everyone that applied for the recent position that we had available.
Such an overwhelming response.

Thanks again

Paul

It's been another busy couple of months. I have started work moving things over to the new server, still going to be a while before i let it go live. I have to get shoppping cart and products finished.
A new facility as been added to the site "news letter" If you would like to be kept informed of whats happening and the progress of the move subscribe to the new monthly news letter.

Website has now been moved onto the new server. Thankfully alll went well without any major problems. Things are still moving along at 200 mph and i have not had a great deal of time to get on with the new look innovativedesigns. At present i am just glad to get this moved over for the mean time. I have 10 days hols due, i hope to use this time to get new innovative up and running. Please report any bugs that you find, not got much time myself.

Paul

I was looking forward to 7 days off my day job. I thought i would get the chance to get innovative moved over to the new server. It's been not stop the past few weeks. I have added another 2 jobs to my client list though ++
It looks like march now before i get the chance to start the move.

January is not even over and it has begun.
I have 2 websites that i am currently working one project just finished and to throw a spanner in the works innovativdesigns is moving to a new server and new domain exstension.
Innovativedesigns.org.uk will be changing to Innovativedesigns.me.uk. I am trying to get some time off work to get things moved over. If all goes well i will be implememting some changes to the current layout of the site as well.
Paul

Happy new year everyone.
I wonder what this year has instore for us.

I have taking away the f1 poll and replaced it with one vid clip(bigger 'n' longer). I will make a point of updating this frequently with new clips from F1 past and present. To me the first clip i have added is the one that show it all, Big BIG crash. The most exspensive crash in F1 history. Spa 1998 the heavens have opened up...
Spa 1998

Just got the guestbook finished after it was starting to gather dust on my hardrive. It was Febuary the last time i got a look at this file. Glad to get it finished.

Be sure to go have a look and sign it.

I am glad to report that i have had no futher problems with the computer, thank god . Comp time has been minimal due to driving lessons and the day job but. I have got my test booked after that i should hopfully get back fully into the swing of things. I have got all sorts of flash goodies to be getting on with adding to the site so keep checking back.

I thought that i had lost all my work in a recent meltdown.
It's been like a month since i have been on the site. I had a big crash with my computer that required me to get a new motherboard thankfully it looks like i am all up and running now .
So whats been happening the past month. I am no longer a worker of the backshift 3pm - 10pm
I have been promoted to the dayshift whey hey 11am - 6pm
I am now finding myself being trained in a new postion that requires a bit more use with computers and and a bit less grafting , Anyone that has worked in factory processing will know that someone has to release the work into the system, This is what i am being trained up on. I am being trained up for driving the forklift trucks too. Nothing to do with computers but hey it's handy having a forklift licence.

I had been working a new guestbook before the crash. hoping to get back on with getting it finished.
So dont forget if your working on something big always make a backup !!!

Well it's been more like 4 weeks. I think i have just about fixed all bugs, it's more the little add-ons that i need to get finished. I have managed to re-do the forum and have added alsorst of little extras.
If you were here before and registered you will have to update user profile.
I havn't been able to pull all the threads from the old forum so it's a start a fresh.
Hopfully all is well and i dont get a backlash of emails about bugs
All the details can be found in the forum.

Yup finally got some time off work, and would u beleive it i have the cold bug.
So what have i planned for this year? A new job would be a good start
But first off the website have started to re-design the comments section(guestbook) still tinkering about with the new layout. I have also drawn bored of the forum. I am looking forward to a major over-haul of this, starting tonight
So with that i am off

Well here we are @ the back-end of 2003. It's 8:30pm and i am looking forward to a quite one this year, since last year was spent in a maternity ward Daddie Daddie
Anyways i hope u all have a good one.

Yup 12.20 Wedensday afternoon and the kids have opened all ther prezzies and as usual they find the wrapping papper more fun than whats wrapped up, lol. anyways i have decided to re-do the comments section(guestbook).
I am also really intrested in putting some kind of global map locater for site members like over @ theory 7.
Well Merry Christmas and i hope you all have a good one.

Finally got round to ironing out the bugs in the site. Sent message are now stored. Admin area is finally been put together, no more adding information through PHPMYADMIN.
Got the direct linking working as well, i can now link to load any part of the site F1 crash poll

I have been doing some tweeking with the login and user settings area. I have disabled the color picker for the site for now. There is also a new option in the memebers profile area so that you can add you own picture. More updates on the way, As soon as i get some time.

Well guys it's been go go go here. Updates comming in thick and fast. I have modified the news section so that the news comes from the database and not a textfile. It should make things a bit easier for me. Let me know if you like it. I have aslo made the comments section draggable across the top of the site. I didn't like the way it was stuck out to the right. Now i need to get on with some real work.

After constant maoning about the text on the site being hard to read i have given in again and got a new font. I have decided to only replace the fonts where there is a large amount of text to be read. I have added some new info about the site and what is behind the building of it about innovativedesigns. For the moment i have disabled the site colour options to memebers. This is to allow for time to figure out a better method of working this option. More updates are planned for the comming months.

Hello peeps, It's been 3 months since the last update to the site. I have been busy with other projects, earning some $$$
Anyways the update. Since it is the end of the F1 Calender I have decided to build a F1 crash user poll, Some of the best bits from season 2002 - 2003, Vids supplied by UKF1.net. I have also replaced
the invisble drag button around all the windows as well as keeping the visible drag button.

Well guys it looks like i got the messenger app working without any major problems. I am hope to add the option to allow users to upload there own avators and also the option to add a smileys to forum post. I am still no futher forward as to finding sounds for the site. I have been that busy with the bug fixing and tweeking that i forgot to look for sounds.

Well the 13th was fine, it was the 14th when the Sh*t hit the fan. Yes the server got hacked again. The site was done for a few days while the company repaired the server. Luckly no data was lost. It has been 2 weeks now and all has been quite .
For those who have been here before you will see that there has been some considerable tweeking done. Please post your comments in the forum. I have still to add some sound to the site. I have a few days of work next week so hopfully then i can get something done about the sound.

Friday 13th is nearly over and all is well========

Well guys i cant beleive it. After months of tinker about with code and re-working code replacing parts here and taking away parts there. 5 mins thats all it took and about an hour to re-work some of the code. The headaches that has caused me over the past few months for those who have been following this problem," Flash scroll component "had nothing to do with it!! Just want to make that clear. Anyways now that major bug has been sorted out i can get on with the fun stuff. I have started the tuts and download section finally and they should be up some time over the weekend. so thats it i am off

enjoy friday the 13th

Well guys i am still not having any luck resovling the issuse with the site slowing down. I have totally stripped the forum thinking it was the the flash scrollpane component that was casuing the problem. i have seen a slight reduction in the CPU usage but nothing to write home about. Well i will keep trying.

Right guys i am back up again.
I have been trying to fix a couple of bugs within the user registration. For those who have been here before you will notice the change. I have still to sort out the user stats section, currently putting the final touches to a little flash game for the site.High scores for the game will be stored in the user stats. So as soon as i get the game finished the stats will be up.

Its been a couple of weeks of square eyed staring at this moniter. I have been trying to fix the problem with the site slowing down. The only solution for this at the moment is to drop the quality of the site if it starts to slow down. I was going to automate this but decided to give the user the option to change when required. I have also bowed to the 56k'ers and moved the wallpaper loader forward into thesite and done a little tweeking here and ther.

Well guys i have finally gave up with the font i was using, i have also scrapped the old forum. The new forum comes equipped with backend mysql support. features included
-custom signatures
-print views for code swapping (work in progress)
-custom avators (work in progress).
you will also see that i have added a chatroom. this is just here for testing purposes, got plans to add it to one of my other sites.

Well guys after a few weeks of bug fixing i think i have got the forum fully running. Only things to be added are avators and personal signatures. Got the email response working with post link at last.

Well havn't really got much done over the past few weeks with becoming a dad again and all Got a lovely little babby boy, David John. Yes he was a New years day baby born at 4:50 am 01- 01-03 with 10 fingers and 10 toes.

I have added a new section to the site that allows yourselfs to change the look and feel of the site. Two options have been set. Text fields background colour and the option of some Background wallpappers. The user registration allows for these setting to be stored on your computer and will be loaded the next time you visit.

After a year of learning flash and tinker about with the site designs this is what in have come up with. I am expecting a uproar of ego7 and theory 7 ripp in the forums. Yes the design does come from the two sites and that is were it ends. All coding on this site is my own except for the minimized window effect. The thanks for that goes to Doc over @
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