Intrancersonic-DS - A New Studio One & Digital Tech / CGI Production Site

[gentleclockdivider]

[enCiphered]

@gentleclockBS:
you are only here to spread hate, aren´t you?
I really feel bad for you..
Get a life

[gentleclockdivider]

Just poking fun at his alter ego

[kettlechips]

@gentleclockBS:
you are only here to spread hate, aren´t you?
I really feel bad for you..
Get a life

Just trying to shine a laser light on the subject.

[THE INTRANCER]

we should feel fortunate... people for the most part can't believe i have played with computers even before the advent of the PC... the computers we apparently started on was by no means a personal computer... more or less just technical toys for the most part but to watch how we got to where we are today is nothing less than amazing. my first games were hard coded out of the back of magazines... small programs were like 5-6+ pages of code ( and could be up to thousands of lines) with no debugging. if you made a mistake typing... you just started over. by college i could already type upwards of 100 wpm with no errors... it flipped the girls out. but it was almost torture to try and find the error... better just to type it all in again. that is actually how i learned BASIC... typing the code over and over from errors and new games/programs it forced me to memorize the syntax and commands out of repetition. my friends and family thought me mad... but i thought it was fun and i loved learning it and seeing what i could do with it. great times if you ask me.

speaking of cassettes... it was horrible to try and find the end of one program and find the beginning of the next. lol i can STILL hear that in my head and people thought it horrid the little bit they heard waiting on dial up connections. to me... actually listening to computers talk was worse than finger nails on a chalkboard lol thank God for optic drives cheers

I use hunt around for the books my brother used to program Atari 800 applications, and that included a what we would call today a DAW or back then a music program. I use to, sit a long side double-checking what he had typed on the screen for him. There was definitely something hypnotically relaxing, about sitting in front of a blue screen and white characters going up it. As for the program he made and that of the sound of the notes one could play from the qwerty keyboard, to say I was totally fascinated, was an understatement, back in 1985. It really was like something born out of the film Tron, which incidently had been shown quite a few times on terrestrial TV back then. The joys of recording to tape and finding that 3 digit play mark, and knowing full well just how fragile tapes actually were to practically anything, including dust for them to not load properly. It had a cartridge slot, but could only dream about inserting one, because no computer store sold any. Single sided 5.4' disk drives and printers were available for the Atari 800 XL, but cost a small fortune and would require earplugs to use the printer, I've read (not supplied). I'm probably going to add a Retro Computer section to this new site, it would probably fit in quite well with stories to tell, hardware and games to show over the past 40 years.

Today I decided to revert back to the original jet black UI of the site, rather than the grey tones, I think it looks and works better and also helps in a practical way in the design aspects of it. There's so many directions in ways to take it...The hard part is, where to put things, and how to display it within the bounds, I'm limited to...but incidently with the work I did over the weekend, I do have some new, interesting ideas in how to do that.

[MadDogE134]

cool beans cheers

[THE INTRANCER]

cool beans cheers

In addition to adding more video and project content, in the past few days, I had an idea on how to make the site, even more engaging. It's called 'The G Zone', for a few reasons but trust me it's all clean, and most of all, fun. (See top right menu).

[THE INTRANCER]

Another month passes, and the evolution of the website as one could say, has had some smokin hot refinements. The biggest of these which has just happened over the weekend, is the integration of a new horizontal drop down menu system, which now integrates the top row menu that has been ever present since day one. As more new content has been added and layout has changed visually, a solution was pretty much essential. Right now, it's a pretty minimal look but opens the doors to expanding the number of sections greatly, on different parts of the site, including the style of menu.

Next up would be the integration of dynamic thumbnail image scroll-up page feature, which allows you to show large images by simply hovering over the thumbnail quickly. At the moment you can see recently re-skinned versions of U-HE's Hive 2.

There has been lots of visual changes in presentation of text / formatting of text, images and backgrounds such as with the huge Reaktor review / video ensemble section.

New interactive games, new video content and sections like design in architecture / update news on free software and cheap software, and a more entertainment / learning focus front end vibe with some classic 80's tunes. In addition to the online interactive arcade, you can play with real people with one of the games...

Who loved 80's Missile Command ?



And just added, for the first time in 19 years, all the music I uploaded to not Soundcloud, but Sound click, with their new embedded player. It includes many of my favourite chillout tracks I created back then from 2005 / 2006...and still do today...as if I had never made them myself. There are a few emotional piano pieces I recorded live in one take. The very first track on the list 'Euphorical Love', was the very first track I ever made with Propellerheads Reason 1.0 way back in 2001 .

[Saffran]

I'm using Firefox. How do i do to see the last link in the animated menus on both side?
Dragging the scrollbar all the way down doesn't do it. I only get this coordinated jumps up and down at high speed of menu and scrollbar. Fun but not useful.

[whyterabbyt]

Another month passes, and the evolution of the website as one could say, has had some smokin hot refinements.

jebus, how bad was it before?

[THE INTRANCER]

I'm using Firefox. How do i do to see the last link in the animated menus on both side?
Dragging the scrollbar all the way down doesn't do it. I only get this coordinated jumps up and down at high speed of menu and scrollbar. Fun but not useful.

I guess you didn't notice the secret menu called 'Access', at the centre bottom of all the pages...It's orange, in colour. . It's key aim was to provide access to the menus on the left and right side with any internet capable device be that TV, tablet or phone.

Now as I've just in the past few days implemented a new horizontal menu system, I can provide additional access to those left and right menus, which for technical reasons I wasn't able to before with the secret menu or the existing menu system blogger uses where I wanted and in what way.

Also, it's worth noting, that if you are using Firefox or any browser for that matter on a PC for instance, clicking CTRL with plus and minus keys will scale the size of your browser screen so you can see what you are trying to see. There are additional navigation aids like a zoom to the top arrow, on the bottom right.

So far as the site has expanded, finding solutions, and re-scripting them to actually make them work is a bit like climbing very large hill on a mountain bike. It's kinda fun and worth the effort, but not without a bit of pain lol. Incidently I was on two wheels along my costal stretch this evening... a pretty dramatic and beautiful sky / sea / landscape to take in, with a warm breeze blowing.

[Saffran]

Ok. Thanks. The access at the bottom works. But you have to ask to know about it and if you let the mouse move too far to the right or left, the menu disappears and you have to start over. I see two identical horizontal menus. The item text is shortened so much it doesn't make much sense to a first time visitor.
I'm using Firefox on win7 desktop. If i zoom to 67% i can see the whole page with sidemenus and the arrow to top (it works).
I suppose it's a lot harder to make webpages nowadays when they should fit so many different screensizes.
Just thought you could have use for some visitor point of view.

[THE INTRANCER]

Ok. Thanks. The access at the bottom works. But you have to ask to know about it and if you let the mouse move too far to the right or left, the menu disappears and you have to start over. I see two identical horizontal menus. The item text is shortened so much it doesn't make much sense to a first time visitor.
I'm using Firefox on win7 desktop. If i zoom to 67% i can see the whole page with sidemenus and the arrow to top (it works).
I suppose it's a lot harder to make webpages nowadays when they should fit so many different screensizes.
Just thought you could have use for some visitor point of view.

Thanks for the feedback, but yeah... it's rather tricky to anticipate and accommodate each and every individual's needs and expectations when it comes to interactive interfaces to make them accessible for everyone's needs. But I have made a couple of changes which should help though. The left and right panels are located in the main heading bar now and the footer dropdown menu is changed to block capital letters and also arrowed. The delay fadeout time has been adjusted slightly for that menu as when you scroll in and out of it, it should de-activate / re-activate better.

I think these changes should help with the interactive aspects so things are more quick to access.