Archive for 2008

Tank A Day: Water-saving Quiz

August 15th, 2008 by Makis

The core of the Tank A Day website is the water-saving quiz. Students are called to test their knowledge and gain the right for their school to win a water tank. This is the main purpose for the user registration and the other information that is available on the site…

I was called on this project for what seemed to be a simple upgrade – the addition of two age groups instead of just one. This led to a series of updates that ultimately changed the quiz to an unrecognized state. The new features where demanding but brought the experience to new standards visually. Unfortunately the old structure the quiz was still relying on (timelined AS2) couldn’t handle the new additions perfectly. Since there wasn’t any planning to create it from scratch in AS3 I tried to balance the opposing factors of the app to achieve the best possible results.

Tank A Day: Front-end

August 4th, 2008 by Makis

A kids site with a learning spin, Tank A Day uniquely entertains, educates on water saving and promotes the products of Bluescope. When the website was going to be upgraded I handled the front-end side.

The new interface has a basic XHTML-CSS structure. As always I tried to keep it as clean and obvious as possible. The new web 2.0 look gave me the freedom to actually apply some of the common CSS techniques. On the side there was also some flash development involved for the scroller in the homepage and some other elements in the administration area.

Sutton Anderson ~ New website

July 3rd, 2008 by Maria

Sutton Anderson provides expertise in commercial and industrial property specialising in leasing, sales and project management.

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

Journalspace – AJAX Profile

June 26th, 2008 by Makis

Worked on Journalspace to upgrade the profile pages with more interactive actions in order to make them easier to configure. Using AJAX a user can now move the mouse over the title bar of any of the boxes on their profile, click and drag to move its position, or delete the box with a click of a button having an immediate visual impact on the appearance the profile page.

The above image is part of the profile page where you can see two of the main features implemented – the drag n drop repositioning and the confirmation box to delete some content.

Uniting Care ~ New website

June 20th, 2008 by Maria

The careers website for UnitingCare Children Young People and Families Services.

I’ve created the XHTML and CSS parts of this website according to the client’s designs.
I enjoyed building this colorful website. Although the layout is similar through out the pages, each section is loading a each own CSS in order to give the different coloration.