Jim Shorthose was talking about this in his lecture on Monday and thought it was quite an interesting idea. Then today I was reading march's .net magazine and the same concept cropped up in a article by Dan Mall, about attracting visitors to your website. This made me think I should blog it to remind me in the future...
The Elevator Pitch Scenario:
You are in an elevator and in the time that it takes to reach your desired floor you have to explain clearly and concisely what you do.
If you are unable to this then you should re-evaluate your synopsis or if your applying this to an idea ou might hav, then perhaps re-evaluate the idea.
In this article they even used the hedgehog and fox analogy!
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The Elevator Pitch
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Entity Relationship Model
This Diagram shows how my database is organised. It consists of 3 tables entitled member, comment and location which are linked by two lots of interrelated data. Each table has a primary key which in this case is an automatically incremented id.
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Make your Mark
These are some screen shots of my social networking site so far. The index page is predominantly HTML however, the login form is PHP and the comment has been extracted from my database.
The last couple of days I've been quite productive. One user can now log in however the session only runs on the homepage. I have got my 'upload picture' to work and on the profile page, if there is no profile picture in the database the 'upload picture' option appears instead. I have also altered the 
registration page so that a correct password has to be entered before registration form appears.
All the content on my profile page has been extracted from the database and I've also got dynamic titles for the profile so it displays "'nickame', Make Your Mark". Profile pictures display now too and the these have been set to a width of 200px.
Things to do:
- I still need to work out how to use dynamic CSS to position comments on the map.
- I need to display more than one result from the database as at the moment I can only print to the screen the values associated with the first entry in the database.
- I cannot currently import data into the database through a form, the upload picture only uploads to a file on the server. I know this will be via a Mysql statement and might look into the statements that appear when you do it through the PHPmyadmin tomorrow.
- Invites are also a problem....
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Php Login Tutorial
I found this tutorial very helpful it goes through step by step how to create a log in page that verifies with the database.
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Why learn PHP??
I don't think I'm the only one feeling a little lost with PHP at the moment, so here are some points that might boost enthusiasm and justify the headaches!
1. PHP has very similar syntax rules to ActionScript. This will help you both in learning PHP, and in improving your knowledge in AS3.
2. Let’s face it, almost every website out there runs on PHP. We cannot change this, so we must change our knowledge to be a part of the many people who use PHP. Some examples of popular uses of PHP are:
- Content Manage Systems
- Browser-Based Games
- Online Applications
- Blogs
Most likely, one of these is going to applicable to what you’re going to do in flash.
3. Out of all the programming and scripting languages in the world, the best match for flash is PHP. They are meant to be together, like husband and wife. There are many ways that Flash and PHP can be used together. Here’s a list of ways they can be used:
- High Scores
- Account Systems
- Dynamic Flash Sites
- Image Galleries
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I have a real passion for advertisement. Imagery can be so powerful in conveying an concept/message and there is no end to the possible outcomes. I get so much enjoyment from seeing quirky advertisements like these. They have an element of fun and it is this which grabs your attention and makes the advertisement successful.
I have another blog which has a lot of commercials and posters that i have come across.
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Microsoft Surface
Microsoft Surface is a table top touch screen computer that proves the mouse and keyboard defunct and allows for multiple users. There is no need to use leads to connect mobile phones and cameras to the device instead you simply place them on the table top and the images spill out, allowing for reorganising and enlarging with your hands.
Milan is currently aimed at businesses and should be deployed at commercial properties by the end of the year. Its going to be a while before produts like this become a household items, however aspects are already breaking through with touchscreen mobile and notepads.
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