The past few weeks/months have been extremely busy, and in the process, I’ve had to put some personal projects on hold and pull a few all-nighters. Not that I’m complaining. I actually live for this stuff… well, not JUST for this. I have a family that I live for as well.
Anywho, on to business…
What have I been up to since the new year started? Well, I’ve taken a more serious role in the world of photography having completed a few professional shoots (portfolio coming soon), I’ve assisted in the creation of a few more media players – two for Iron and Wine (one on the homepage and another for the discography pages) and one for All Falls Down. Both in collaboration with Hazen Creative (they designed, I wrote the ActionScript). I’ve been helping a local men’s haberdashery known as Benedetto Men launch their website, which is still in super-early-incomplete-beta form (still needs model shots and polish on the design/coding), I’ve been working on a redesign for a local chef/caterer (new site should be launching soon), helped with the launch of myfreetaxes.com (developed the interactive flash map), developed an image rotator for The Beehive (top right), a BMI calculator and there are a few more projects currently in the mix.
As for other/future releases… I’m currently working on a pretty cool audio/video/ecommerce app for PlayVicious, reworking my own portfolio site as well as this very blog, branding and designing my wife’s website and blog, working on another acupuncturist website, designing and developing a website for a freehand illustrator/emcee/friend and I still have a few more things in the works. So, as you can clearly see, things have been pretty hectic around these parts. As new projects launch, I’ll post links to them here.
Until next time…
Not really. But I did design and develop the new chart application for Pollster.com. It features plenty of user customization capabilities, allowing you to add/take out specific choices (otherwise known as candidates), filter “pollsters”, set smoothing sensitivity, date and percentage ranges and turn on/off specific interface elements from the grid to points and trend lines and choose whether points display over top of trend lines, etc. It also gives the user the ability to save the url to their customized chart for later viewing or you can get the embed code (as seen above) to place on your own page or blog.
To see the fully functioning app, click on the stage of the chart above and it will take you directly to the page with the National Poll results for US President. Quite a handy tool, me thinks.
I’ll be posting some bits of code that I think you may find useful for your own projects shortly (shortly could mean a few hours or days).
I’ve just launched version 3.0 of my dev/design studio website. No more gloss and a much more usable design overall. This version was fully developed with AS3. Version 3.1 will introduce a bitof SEO (search engine optimization) and “deep linking” amongst other things. Check it out.
As well, feel free to leave any comments, feedback, critiques, bugs, etc.
Wow! The past month or so has been extremely busy! There are currently lots of new projects in the works, and an update coming to the Technorganix website which will bring it to version 3.0.
As for new project launches, there’s an audio/video player developed for the new Swell Season website. Developed with Flash ActionScript 3, this player seamlessly switches between audio and video playback based on its filetype so the admin only has to worry about adding title, artist, file and image paths. The site itself was designed by Hazen Creative. Be sure to check it out. There’s also Tidal TV which I had the privilege of developing the prototype for last summer in collaboration with No|Inc. It’s now in the beta stages.
That’s about it for now. I’ll be posting again soon.
I have a lot of things in the works currently, which is the reason behind the lack of updates. Check back after June 9th for more updates.