EVAN J WARDEN
ROLLANDBERRY.COM
Rolland came to me via Mazik of Self Aviary, in search of someone to complete a pre-existing design that other developers had prepared for him. After looking at the design and the way in which the existing code was placed, it was apparent to me that we would either have to start all over, or invest a lot of time figuring out how various elements were grouped within their design. We chose to start all over.
I’m a big fan of Rolland’s art – especially his iconic poster (pictured above) – so I proposed to him that we use that work as the background for the website. He liked the idea and wanted to further it by adding in the electrical nodes that you see throughout the site – another work of his. Rolland also decided that he wanted to use limited color – so we stuck with the idea of using color only in the navigational elements of the UI.
This was the first site that I had developed fully after migrating from ActionScript 2 to Actionscript 3, and it was a great opportunity to learn some of the fundamentals that were impacted upon me. Virtually everything was different in AS3, and therefore I went about coding in it rather begrudgingly. However, anyone who works with Flash knows that AS3 affords significant speed and flexibility upgrades once you learn to love it.
The site took about a month to develop and execute, and the images, text, etc. that you see on the page are all dynamically updateable through XML – another big improvement with the AS3 framework, and necessary as Rolland’s fashion collections are constantly being updated.
If you have a flair for the artistic when it comes to clothing, check Rolland out.
JW