Bienvenue dans le monde de Mimi
Updates
Finally, a major update... I say I would do it... a promise is a promise! Click on Mimi's world banner above to open the Flash animation (version 8, if you can't see it, you only have to accept the download of Flash Media Player 8, when you are proposed, it's free and it's small, without viruses and without danger for your computer).
I worked a lot all this week to make this animation.on several programs :
- Photoshop, for its wonderful colors! (CS evaluation version)
- Canvas8, for some melting effects on a few images (I still can't get them in Photoshop!!!) and easiness to import .psd files
- Fireworks8 (evaluation version), for the easiness to create the first steps of animation, and the texts (including the fantastic new effects Macromedia added!)
- Flash8 (evaluation version), I succeeded importing the png file and it converted it in Flash Movie automatically (wonderful! I am so lazy!)
and the final rendering went very good and respectful of colors, considering the size of images which were double (all added) compared to the Flash file (673 KBytes).
Finally, all these to say it's all about Pelicans and sand! I hope you'll appreciate.
I've added a link to a new website, made by a friend of mine, Fred. Unfortunately, this website is only in French, so if you want to practice our beautiful language, you are more than welcome to take a look at it. Click on "Ma Tribune Libre" banner above.
A new wallpaper you can get by one click on the welcome image at the top... some psychedelic childish thing... (size 800*600 pixels) (Updates 10-15, 2006).
Gosh! Great day today... I finally found a way to hide the Free Counter at the bottom, it was so easy, it's a shame really I couldn't get it sooner! (Erm... for those who don't know, Width and Height parameters should be put to 0 in the HTML Counter code. and pfuit! no more counter! It's magical!)
I added a "seasoned" counter, "Halloween" pumpkins... I am sure everybody will appreciate. And a permanent counter, complete for design I found on a French website 123compteur.com (thank you to the webmasters to provide them, these are so easy to use and look more professionnal!).
Here it is finally... I'm back... I got a major computer problem which deprived me from doing fun things for so long that it is truly a shame! But thanks to some 'very, very' nice family help, I got it all back and well running! Do'h!
So I need to do some major things before doing updates... and I have so many things to say as I have the great chance to go to Avalon 2006 with Rick Anderson and Amanda Tapping... waouw! I probably got the last ticket sold! and it's probably the craziest thing I did lately... in the good way though... I got my heart racing faster thinking where I'll be in less than 2 months... England behave! I am commiiiiiinnnnngggg !!! noooooo! I am a reasonable and sensitive girl. I just try to calm my nerves a little here... Do not worry, I am NOT acting like my age requires it to! lol
So more to come shortly... as 'They' say!
I have created a French blog. The link is : http://www.aufeminin.com/blog/sabsam123 . Its title is "Mon monde à moi" (My own little world). It's very unusual, right?!
It's only in French. I made it to see if I was able to create one again... which is yes... ouh! fortunate me! but I find it quite simple, considering the needs I'll have for my special project... I'd like to add images, but also sounds or videos (small ones). So more to come next week-end... This one should be in English, just for trying and soon be erased... as I don't need it for long.
June-25, 2006
Go and see my new animation and a new webpage for everything but TV related graphic stuff... here!
A new animation made with Canvas 8, it took me hours to do it because I tried to make some fancy artwork a.k.a. this truly (you should agree it is! lol) nice boxset in which you can find 4 small photos of David James Elliott. I know now how to make an animation inside a master frame and how to limit the size of file. I divided it by two (with 4 pics instead of 2).
I learnt too how to create webpages with all made navigation bars and all made cascade style sheet, and then of course, it gets easier to modify presets in Dreamweaver, like background colors, color of texts and attributes of navigations bars...
This way I can master graphic backgrounds and texts the way I want and, easily, compared with tools I know in Dreamweaver. I only miss the scrolling bars and I'll be able to create a whole website with text in small designed boxset... all this to finish the website for Thierry Neuvic I still reflect on.
I hope I'll get it next week-end if I have some time... as it is soon my birthday... but shhhh... don't tell anyone, it's a secret...
If someone by any chance feel up to employ me in a low paid work to do webmastering or webmerchandising, i'll be more than ready to take courses to develop these abilities... It'll be a nice gift package!
So... a simple and proper navigation menu... It took me long to find back what I already knew... Shame on me... but I guess sometimes a long travel is worth the wait...
2 all new buttons on the first page, to make the access easier on people who were stopped by the Flash thingies (I guess it's more Internet Explorer users, than Mozilla ones). Their design quality increased... I mean this little spot of white on the right of both buttons wasn't very professionnal, right? (aka the answer for those who have patience to read all this!).
But I keep the access through "Updates" button to the main pages, because I'd really like a few more readers on this page...
And remember, I make no money with this website... It's just for entertainment, no adds... so keep cool on sueing me...
Here it's March and its bad weather, so it's time to "kill" in front of my dear computer! and I am sorry to have forgotten the update of March 2, 2006... but my website has gone through bad weather too and was subdued to major changes in its wallpapers pages...
1) I removed all the icons which linked to giant wallpapers. It was a killing job to update and I want more time to develop either icons or wallpapers without putting in the website the same thing twice.
Some links may not work properly in updates pages and in menus, because a new first webpage is on the run...
Then, I changed some 3D wallpapers of webpage, as some of them are linked to actor Richard Dean Anderson, so for easy recognition, I put them within US_actors_wallpapers page.
2) I added some ancient wallpapers, both indicated with "NEW" in the page.
- One starring Bruno Wolkowitch... here ! called "Bruno wall2"
- and another image I made at the beginning starring Michael T. Weiss... here! called "Black and white"
3) I made a lot of wallpapers starring Gary Sinise... first with a powerpoint file, but some of you had problems to properly use them, so I put only the wallpapers to download. And please, right click with your mouse drive to get them.
You may notice files are made with less bytes, it's all going with using Canvas8, which is really easy to use on that part... and the quality of image is quite better, partly because I work better on it, partly because tools are easier to use. So it's all for pleasure and easiness to download for low bandwitch... Take a look! You won't be deceived! It's quite amazing even for me.
4) I will add one page at least for graphic design of various subjects, out of any movies or TV stuff...
The end... Pfiew! See you next time for new adventures...
Heya... here finally an animation in Flash formate... made with Canvas 8! I love it! 2 hours and a half of work for those who would know how much time it takes, and it's without including the colored walls i used in the background... I created them in Painter Classic and tranformed them in Canvas.
I haven't made any animation for a while... It's made in honor of the new TV series "60 minutes" with David James Elliott, on ABC network... I can't wait to watch it! It's made with Canvas and the size of file is around 340 kilobytes, which is quite small for these full colored images... Have fun!
New tools, efficiency... what can I say? Here again 3 new wallpapers... First with Gary Sinise (bottom page), to make someone feel better if possible and because I like the actor a lot! Then 2 more with Richard Dean Anderson (top page), because I'll never get rid of him...
I made it with Canvas8. I never created till now walls with such quality of colours and a size of file so small... I am so dumbfounded by it. Plus you will see how the image is melted in the background, I never ever (again!) succeeded doing that with photoshop but maybe it was because I was dumb stupid... lol and couldn't find the right tool! But there it is all easily accessible, it's wonderful!
Next step is doing again the welcome page... with some animated things if I can... and if it allows high quality compression in that case too! I know people with low bandwitch connexion will be thankful for that... and a for brand new menu easily accessible... but shhhhh! it's a surprise.
Another wallpaper here made with my new (licensed) program Canvas 8, supposed to replace Photoshop and Fireworks and probably ultimately Flash and Dreamweaver, when I'll find the key to make it work! This is really powerful! I am still amazed to have had it for free.
I should explain why the Japanese girl... It's to thank people on " http://france-japon.net/ " (this is a blank link, of course!) for their nice welcoming, plus I needed a nice lady to test my new program... I found the photo on the blog "Le dernier exilé"... (you can find its link on France-Japon.net) The top model is Ayaka Komatsu. As this won't be a link where I will take many photos, it'll be cited only there and not in the Credits page. Thank you anyway.
My first and quick update for the New Year here, just right in time to thank you all worldwide to visit my website... and to wish you the best things to come...
I've seen there is "new" people from Russia, Norway, Tchek Republic (hopefully the right term... with my apologises if not!) and I just feel grateful for being visited and that it extends to such countries. Feel free to send me a mail to tell me what you think of my website... preferably in English, in French (if you feel up to...) or in spanish (I still can read it but the answer should be fun to make...).
Please do not send trash mail or I'll be obligated to erase the addy. I maintain this site for free, I have no money.
Back to the update, I made this drawing with the graphic application Painter Classic (old version... very old...) I got with my drawing tablet. I should do this more often, it was at least a relief from stress, if not the best painting ever... I mixed painting technics from various French painters (all made tools, made for lazy people like me...) like Seurat, Van Gogh, Impressionists ones... and I stopped it when I felt it would be a mess... lol byebye
August 20th, 2005:
July 15th, 2005:
I also modified the main page... Fool day it is...
It's most of all for the music which kept popping up in my mind for days... Thank you Kat for helping me finding the title and name of singer... Kevin Lyttle "Turn on me"... it's just a piece of the song... no infringement of copyrights intended... just fun... you can find the song to buy on Amazon... as I will... Click here! for the sound wave file (2.7 Megabytes). Enjoy...