This is the personal portfolio of the web designers Makis Tracend and Maria Papadimitriou, who've been working on personal and commercial web projects for many years and have provided the online community a series of web applications and internet services.
This version of the site to focuses on the content and presents the work with a more personal touch. You can find samples of the work done throughout the years although note that not everything is included.
Some of the work didn't make it to the portfolio, either because it was scrap work (ex. content updates), not worth promoting, we weren't allowed to show it off for some reason or plainly because we forgot to record it...
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It has been for long the flagship of media rich content for the web, but Flash has matured and is more than a flashy animation or media file. We have created complete applications with it in the past and have the experience to merge it into your website layout so it becomes an asset to the overall design and not an annoyance.
My long awaited portfolio for my flash-related work is online.
It’s using my very own KISSCMS as a back-end and a collection of PHP, JavaScript and Flash widgets running on the website along with it.
For the visual side, I wanted something minimalistic, and flashy cocky kind of way. I think my “mad scientist look here gives the final touch in that regards 
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:
This item requires the latest version of Adobe’s Flash Player.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.
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.
This was the second set of flash interfaces I created for TuneMo. It was a complete re-write over the first set as it was structured differently and
Again this was all XML-driven, the playlist and content, and it is skinnable with all the assets loaded from external files. I spent some extra time fine tuning the animation sequence and creating custom elements like the video control buttons outside the player.
This was created for TuneMo, a mobile content company releasing their content to a worldwide scale. It was used as a landing page from online ad campaigns so the company wanted something eye-catching and simple to use:
This is a completely skinnable interface, which means all the visual elements are loaded from external files and can be replaced pretty easily. The content for the application and the playlist of the videos is driven through XML files. Custom actionscript code was needed for the creation of the gallery and the animation sequences.
It started as a small side-project but ended up being quite demanding and time-consuming. But it was nice to exercise my AS2 skills once again…
