MAKE SITES .CC

This was a website dedicated to a annual film festival, mainly showcasing short films from upcoming directors from around the world.

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I designed a demo for the website – first the graphic design and then the back end CMS. The content was a presentation of the festival’s program (for present and previous years) with an online preview of each filmmakers creation – which meant the use of Flash video, almost in every page of the site.

It had some other cool features like AJAX-type balloons for detailed information and an in-page document viewer (used for reading the script in this occasion).

The website didn’t make it to a public launch but I’m inserting it here just for archiving purposes. It took me a good week to develop after all…

It was good practice though for building a standards-compliant design, dealing with streaming media and organizing directory listings.

This is a free little script I created for my personal use…

Specifically, there was a need in the network sites for a PHP script that could create database entries and from those it would generate an XML file. I sat down one afternoon and developed it. It still has a basic interface and all the features I wanted haven’t been implemented yet (probably later on in a revised version) but the basic function is there:

• Admin area with self-expiry cookie.
• Preview all the database entries.
• Add a new entry with a simple form.
• XML file created automatically on every update.

The first place we used it was the news scroll over the network’s main site, kdiweb.net. Now it’s the basic back end script for makis.info.

Download the Script

Version: 1.0
Language: PHP
File size: 3,03kb

This was a survey sheet I developed for use at the RSA website.

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It has a few JavaScript calls to control specific user input and all the data is stored in a MySQL database.

This was an interesting project. I had to create a full flash website that covered 100% of the browser screen and streamed video on-demand. The purpose of the website was to promote VnR’s corporate DVD video production – the owner wanted the site to make an impression without being too “flashy”.

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It is worth mentioning that all the content is dynamically imported from external files, controlled by an XML file. The flash site is connected with a user-friendly CMS, so the owner can add videos online and make them instantly appear in the flash site.

The video player was custom made with an autorun feature that can be disabled and an image placeholder to replace the video when it is not praying. The descriptive text on the side has an optional scrollbar that is shown only when the text exceeds its proper length.

Other interesting features (on a technology level) are that there are embedded HTML links in the content that control the application’s behavior and a login form that sends the login info data back to the CMS.

This was a double job – setup an email campaign promoting a whitepaper download and develop a landing page the users will have to pass through by completing an online form.

Created the HTML for this email campaign from a given graphic design. Tested across stand-alone and online email clients for proper display.

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The online form was pretty standard and collected the data in a MySQL database. An admin area was created to present the data to the client.