Archive for 2008

Westpac Family Restaurant Portfolio ~ New website

October 1st, 2008 by Maria

The website is about the national retail property portfolio offered by Colliers International and Savills on behalf of Westpac Funds Management Limited.

Spread across six Australian states and in 25 different locations, this outstanding portfolio offers geographical diversity and secured leases to Australian fast food retailers, including Red Rooster and its Western Australian brand Chicken Treat, Subway and Dominos. It also includes 14 properties for sale.

I’ve created the XHTML and CSS parts of the website.
I also created the JAVASCRIPT for the drop-down menu and the IMAGE MAP which uses XHTML, CSS and JAVASCRIPT.

The most interesting part of this website, from the technical point of view, is its homepage. The page’s design didn’t allow the clear seperation of the different parts, so it actually required to combine flash and interactive HTML elements nested in each other. I used the Flash elements as a background and overlaped it with the interactive Javascript Image Map.

TSA Management ~ New website

September 20th, 2008 by Maria

TSA Management is an Australian owned company specialising in providing Project and Business Management Services to clients in the property and infrastructure sectors.

I’ve created the XHTML and CSS parts of the website.

TravelNT – Red Centre Microsite

August 27th, 2008 by Makis

One of the major websites promoting Australian tourism, TravelNT, created a micro-site to advertise the merits of Alice Springs and its surrounding area in central Australia. I developed the main flash element appearing in those pages:

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I used Actionscript 3 to script the animation sequences and implement the interactivity. Many of the contents are loaded from external files, an XML file for the menu and text, FLV files for the videos and SWF files for slideshows. I was given the initial concept of the blurring transitions but felt that I had to experiment with the speeds and prioritizing the movements to achieve a smooth transition between the sub-pages.

Overall it was a small, useful app I enjoyed working on.

ACBA:08 ~ Reskinning

August 22nd, 2008 by Maria

The AustCham Australia-China Business Awards is a means of recognising companies that have worked to deliver Australian products or services to the Greater China region.

I’ve worked on reskinning the website (CSS) making sure to keep the back-end functionallity intact. I’ve also worked with Austcham’s communication department in order to make the essential updates (HTML) needed to keep the website up to date for this year’s awards.

Relevant links: ACBA:07

ICMG ~ New website

August 16th, 2008 by Maria

ICMG’s business is construction management and head contracting of commercial fit-out and refurbishment projects. ICMG currently operates in New South Wales and Victoria.

I’ve created the XHTML / CSS parts of this website.
The most challenging part was the “Portfolio” photo gallery in which the project description is loaded on top of the photographs in a semi-transparent box.