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• Development Version^[link2]
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• Background Image Concept Site^[link4]

• General
  • Maintenance £50 = half day 4-6 per month
  • The changes below this line are going to be implemented later on i.e. they dont count as the v3 doc changes since 438 couldn't provide the required content on time again
• Our Values
  • Underneath copy for ‘ISO 9001:2001 Certification’ and ‘IIP Accreditation’ sections, insert relevant logos (supplied separately).
  • Logo for ‘Environmental & Community Support’ section to be supplied by 438 shortly.
• Trade Associations & Partnerships
  • In content for ‘Trade Associations’ category, replace bullet points with appropriate logos (to be supplied separately)

• General
  • Fixed Ricks X-Files bug. Two menu items had the same id so when you rolled over one of the unselected ones it remained highlighted. I checked the rest of the menu structure out and this is the only time it occurs. Easily fixed. Sent V6 zip file over.

• General
  • Increased bottom menu scroll speed from 2x to 15x so that it can be totally scrolled in 2 seconds
  • Made content text white bg 75% opaque from 50%
  • Right-hand slug doesn’t need to drop down until content is ready to be displayed in it – either when a submenu is clicked, or if the main menu item itself contains content
  • Menu at bottom now has a ‘Home’ link to return to the ‘Home’ page.
• Who We Are
  • Used content from ‘Differentiating Intrinsic Technology’ subcategory as content for ‘Who We Are’ main category and moved ‘Differentiating...’ subcategory to the bottom of the list
  • In content for ‘Summary of Principle Services’ subcategory, made all headings (‘Maintenance / Support Services’, ‘Implementation’, etc), bold and blue (the same blue as ‘TECHNOLOGY’ in the Intrinsic Technology logo).
• Contact Us
  • Removed website address current admin@... and sales@... e-mail addresses, now just have a single e-mail address: info@intrinsictechnology.co.uk
  • Used content from ‘How To Find Us’ subcategory as content for ‘Contact Us’ main category, and moved ‘How To Find Us’ subcategory to the bottom of the list
  • Within this copy, removed the ‘Southern Regional Office’ address and phone number
• Solutions & Services
  • Renamed category to ‘Solutions’.
  • Used content from ‘Maintenance & Support Services’ subcategory as content for ‘Solutions’ main category, and move ‘Maintenance & Support Services’ subcategory to the bottom of the list
• Design & Consultancy Services
  • Renamed category to ‘Consultancy Services’.
  • Used content from ‘Design & Consultancy Services’ subcategory as content for ‘Consultancy Services’ main category
  • moved ‘Design & Consultancy Services’ subcategory to the bottom of the list
• Installation Design & Delivery
  • Renamed category to ‘Implementation’.
  • Used content from ‘Installation Design & Delivery’ subcategory as content for ‘Implementation’ main category
  • moved ‘Installation Design & Delivery’ subcategory to the bottom of the list
• Converged Solutions & Contact Centres
  • Renamed category to ‘VOIP & Contact Centres’.
  • Moved ‘Unified Communications’ subcategory to top of the list
• Project Management Services
  • Renamed category to ‘Project Management’.
• Capabilities & Facilities
  • Renamed category to ‘Capabilities’.
  • In content for ‘Southern Regional Office’ subcategory appended the address and telephone number of the SRO which was earlier removed from the ‘Contact Us’ page.
• Vendor Relationships
  • Renamed category to ‘Partnerships’.
  • Used content from ‘Manufacturer Associations’ subcategory as content for ‘Partnerships’ main category
  • Remove ‘Manufacturer Associations’ subcategory to the bottom of the list
• Trade Associations & Partnerships
  • Renamed category to ‘Trade Associations’.
  • Used content from ‘Trade Associations & Partnerships’ subcategory as content for ‘Trade Associations’ main category
  • moved ‘Trade Associations & Partnerships’ subcategory to the bottom of the list
• Our Markets
  • The last 5 subcategories (‘Finance’, ‘Transport & Logistics’, ‘ICT’, ‘Emergency Services’ and ‘Manufacturing’) currently have no content. Instead, they now use the single sentence: "We are currently updating content for this area of our site." as content for these subcategories.
• Media Centre
  • All 4 subcategories (‘Publications’, ‘Case Studies’, ‘Press Releases’ and ‘Events’) currently have no content. Instead they now use the single sentence: "We are currently updating content for this area of our site." as content for these subcategories.
• Embedded Applications, Industry Technology Solutions / White Papers and Managing Change
  • These last 3 main categories are currently empty. They have been removed from the main menu and placed into a new single main menu item ‘Technology Solutions’ as subcategories. The content for each subcategory is the single sentence: "We are currently updating content for this area of our site."
• Customer Support
  • Used content from ‘Customer Support’ subcategory as content for ‘Customer Support’ main category
  • moved ‘Customer Support’ subcategory to the bottom of the list
  • In copy for ‘Online & Telephone Support Services’ subcategory, made the heading ‘Internet Helpdesk Access’ bold.

• Received yet another change list – V3 / Changes / doc, anything after this point is from that list

• Changed all the content text
• Had to make more changes to the main menu/sub menu structure

• Text Panel
  • Gave it an intro and outro, used a mask like you do for vertical menu
    • When the old background fades out the _yscale of the text mask is set to 1 instantly
    • Then it tweens to the height of the stage
  • Changed the main menu contents
    • There's now more main menu items than there was before but the same number of background images. Will have to reuse some of them for now.
  • Changed each submenus contents

• General
  • Received final content list as word doc 0.4
• Text Panel
  • Moved it to take up the right hand side. This meant making the bg bigger and enabling it to resize to the screen dimensions. Also had to rework a ton of the code related to scrolling and the scrollbar class. It all works now.

• General
  • Received new change list
    • Make content text panel take up the full right hand side of the display
    • Change the main menu contents
    • Change each submenus contents
    • Change all the content text
    • 1/2 – 1 days worth o work

• home page
  • At the start there is no bottom menu, instead all the items are in the left hand menu
  • When one is selected the bottom menu is displayed and the last clicked menu item is auto selected down there
  • At the same time the submenu for the selected item is shown in place of the alternative main menu
• General
  • Made bg image loading occur AFTER the submenu has loaded so it was a bit smoother and the content is fully accessable in the mean time

• Main Menu
  • Amended and added 3 new bg images for the last three main menu items
• General
  • Made text in textfield bigger, from 12pt to 14pt
  • Expanded text field out of left hand bar 
    • Pwar! I thought this would be a small job. It's just took 3 hours from 7am in the morning to get sorted. Turns out getting the content text and scrollbar to resize nicely was quite difficult. Seems to work just fine now.

• Preloader
  • Changed font from my groovy bitmap font which resulted in a file size of 3k to "Akzidenz Grotesk BE" bold with a filesize of 7k, still no biggie

• General
  • Scrollbar
    • got rid of bg and vert line
    • colored bar and two arrow buttons to use old bg color and alpha
    • gave those three buttons the intro and outro effect that the bg used to have
    • fixed a minor bug when using the keyboard arrow keys to scroll – would keep firing off multiple setInterval calls which would make it a bit jerky. Now it's as smooth as the other scroll methods.
  • Added big swoosh to bg images – was easier and worked better to actually add seperate swooshes to each of the images instead of implementing it in Flash
  • Anchored bitmap to bottom right corner instead of top left
• Main Menu
  • Added 3 New items
    • Media Centre
    • Service Support
    • Contact

• General
  • Received new changelist, anything after this date is part of that.

• General
  • Switched over to using UFO as the JS method
• Left Hand Menu
  • Checked each page and corrected text files as required
  • Added keyboard up/down arrow support
  • Links
    • Ricks going to implement these or call me and get me to do it. Simple job either way. Just external links to PDF docs.
• Preloader
  • Fixed a minor maths bug

• General
  • It's 4:04am, really it's still yesterday for me. wait that would be today for me but tomorrow for you. frak, im pretty ultra battered :¬) i really need to sleep soon.
• Logo
  • Added swish effect
    • Used the "erase" blend mode so the two light blobs have a gradient cut-out of the ring.
    • It gets played whenever a main menu or submenu button is pressed as well as once at the start once the final main menu item has played its intro.
• Left Hand Menu
  • Added break tag after closing ul tag in all textfiles.
• Preloader
  • Big preloader graphic centered on screen
  • Uses company logo image (swish)
  • Changes from grey (#cccccc) to sites blue as it reaches 100%
  • Has percent text in middle
  • Just preloads main swf file and home.jpg as that's the first bg image
  • The little top left swoosh is also a preloader to some extent. It spins as text files and bg images are loaded. It will keep spinning until the said resouce has finished loading.

• Left Hand Menu
  • Finished the initial version of all the html text files.
  • Implemented scrollable text field on left hand panel
    • it resizes vertically to match the screen whilst leaving a 40px margin around itself
    • used advanced text anti-aliasing to make it as sharp and clear as possible
    • going to implement advanced text scrolling next, thats what i was doing when i stopped today.
    • ..bit later..
    • implemented advanced text scrolling.
      • has neato scroll bar using #2 from the provided .ai file
      • has easing out effect when the slider bar or the two arrow buttons are used
      • has cool fade in/out effect depending on whether there is enough text to actually require scrolling
      • has mouse wheel support in both IE and FF on Windows. Can't test Macs and dont really care as its 1:40am
    • Added menu item intro
    • Added selected effect to items i.e. the selected item stays blue
    • Added intro
• Bottom Menu
  • • Added selected effect to items i.e. the selected item stays blue
    • Added intro
• Background
  • Tinkered with intro timing
• Logo
  • Add intro, well it gets introduced with the submenu

• Left Hand Menu
  • Started creating the content text files. Got about 15 of them done and formated with HTML.

• General
  • Project Started
  • Font used is Akzidenz Bold
• Background
  • Worked out scaling factors for Diesel site
    • If both width and height are smaller than minimum dimensions then it stops growing/shrinking.
    • If width or height is greater than the minimum relevant dimension then the whole image gets scaled
  • Implemented scaling in intrinsic as per their request
  • Created background images from DVD provided artwork
  • Added Intro
  • Added Outro
• Logo
  • Top Sentance
    • size – 46
    • color – #58585a
  • Middle Sentance
    • size – 29
    • color – #0072bc
  • Bottom Sentance
    • size – 9
    • color – #0072bc
• Bottom Menu
  • Fixed list of menu items
  • Slightly transparent bg 
  • Grey up state – #4b4c4d
  • Blue over and down state – #0072bc
  • Items are horizontally centered
  • 9px high text
  • Scrollable with tweening on mouse out. Scrolling slows down nearer the middle of the screen.
  • Width matches screen width
  • Added menu logic i.e. made clickable
• Left Hand Menu
  • This is really a submenu, the main menu items are listed horizontally at the bottom of the screen. They click one of those and then this left hand menu changes to show the sub menu items with the selected main menu item at the top 
  • Has medium _alpha
  • Fixed menu items
  • Items are left aligned
  • Height matches screen
  • Font is black size 10