I took a couple of day’s holiday this week. I think I deserved it.

Came back mid-way this week though – and a new project has emerged and was up for grabs. Though this time I was not in charge of the project, I simply gave the helping hand.

I’d been told little about this project, and even though it was a non-MSL piece, apparently the team had already done a bunch of work for them ages ago.

CA004 – Computer Associates, produce an antivirus product that came to Content Master to in turn, produce a whole set of demonstrations which we had previously done.

Except this time they wanted these demonstrations to all be in three other different languages (French, German and Spanish). Thankfully, given that this was a non-MSL based work, the team, a while ago (before I joined) – had already designed the interface to load in demos and control them dynamically.

As desperate as I was to get into this project and learn about how it was all constructed, I was only told to take the set of new screenshots provided by CA this time (we didn’t have to record them) and put them together like any other demo. It was a different procedure in comparison to MSL Captivate demos. Some people were used to it, but personally I found it quite tedious.

However, I can see at the same time, the design aspect of the template was top-notch!

So importing images into Flash and layering them was the next step for project work!

Sounded like fun… sort of.