Another day, and another post on Jon-Claude.net.  I have been working somewhat feverishly(well not really) on making my portfolio page something to be proud of.  There is a lot more do to do, but yet again I am just building the foundation to epicness.  

Because The People Want to Know

At work, I spent a considerable amount of time implementing loading indicators into my app because sometimes the app would hang and people wouldn’t know why.  I also recall when I was working at Bethesda Softworks, that we had to adhere to the standards set by Microsoft and Sony to ensure things like that shouldn’t happen in their games.  And since that is their standard for web apps games for the places that I work, its only logical that I adapt that as my standard for web developing.  At least with my own site. So this update is all about loading.  It also allows the Masonry plugin to do all of the necessary calculations in order to look smooth and sexy when all of my work comes in.  I also added links to the websites that I have worked on.  Just showing an image of a site does nothing to show what I have done, I would actually need to link people to it.

So Whats Next?

Next on the agenda for my portfolio development is to make things much more interactive.  I intend to allow there to be a focus on a specific project.  I also want to have a long form copy there to give more information about things.  I also want to add an indicator to show if the project is  my own, an Aura Studios production, AOL platforms integration, or etc.  I think that eventually I will integrate a framework such as React or Angular and really make this into something special.