Just launched the AS3 version of my sitehttp://www.innovativedesigns.org.uk/ 2 years learning AS3 and 4 months porting old AS2 version over. You can still see the old version of innovativedesigns here
Let me know your thoughts
it didn't load, it falls over trying to find this file:http://www.innovativedesigns.org.uk/loader_demo.swf
other than that I fucking love it! 
ha ha yeah i am a dick head and forgot to change the swf name in the embed page. all good in the hood now though 
haha shit happens very nice anyway, although the text is a bit small on my monitor, but that's probably cos it's a large res on a small screen. Did you use any libraries, or is it all home grown?
Couple of points, I signed your guest book, and the thing you do with text fields is a bit annoying - i.e. I filled out the comment box and then tried to add my webcam image. It didn't find my webcam, so I went back to add some comment about that, but when you click in the field again it clears it out, when you click away without changing anything it puts my previous comment back in - so it's there, but I can't edit it.
And the webcam didn't seem to work because initially mine wasn't shared with your website, I manually allowed it but didn't want to refresh and lose what I'd typed already, but I guess it doesn't re check for the cam, so I still couldn't show you my ugly mug.
Probably for the best really
It looks like a shit load of work in there anyway, I've only had a very quick play.
Oh and double click to zoom on the map would be nice too
Yeah the guestbook was a pain to get working and as you noticed still not quite right.
AS for libraries i am only using greensock for the alpha fades and mouse overs. Everything else is has been coded by me.
I've just finished a project for the YBS that worked with a lot of popup windows, sort of like yours does, but mine were all modal. A PAIN IN THE ARSE! They're not really modal... since you can still sneakily tab behind them. But they seems to like it. I went the quick and dirty way with it, pretty much procedural in one fat class expect for a few specific need classes I made. But I think maybe I should try to abstract it and make a proper library for creating modal popups. Although I imagine there are a few out there already made.
I don't doubt for a second that the site code be better coded or use a framework at the least. I am a self taught coder so most of what i know is because i have had to learn it to do X.
The popup windows all do work off one class file with what's needed for each passed when created. The basic working of the class in it's own it to handle dragging, swapping, close and sizing.
There are still one or two things i am not happy with but i just wanted to get it live and work on the rest as i go as it would have been another month or two before i would be adding the next bunch of features.
yep, getting a personal project live is a massive step!
Anyway, great work there, it speak volumes about your ability.
Thanks man 
Personal projects are always the hardest because A. No one is paying you and B. Your always your own worst critique.
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Thank you.
well done Paul especially on not using flex or a framework.
Yeah I keep toying back and forward with Flex. Every few months I take a wim to have a mess with it and just at that something comes up and that's me till the next time. I did develop a couple of small apps in flex a couple of years ago nothing major. Just enough to get my feet wet. Maybe now that the site has gone live I might have a look at flex again. Though that being said maybe i should start looking into Design patterns and frameworks as it definitely makes for cleaner and more re-usable code. Working through the site i could see where code could be simpler but in changing at the point i was at would mean going through all the different sections.
It's been a real learning experience with a big delve into AS3.
Thanks for the kind comments
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fyi: Something is up with the way you are generating the URL strings for Facebook, Flickr, and LinkedIn. For example, here is Flickr:http://www.flickr.com/photos/34089471@n08/,[object%20mcnetworkflickr],flickr
ok will check that this morning and see what's going on.