Archive for the ‘Client Work’ Category
Tuesday, July 1st, 2003
It’s very hard to make a good Scandinavian-style crossword in Flash.
In this attempt, there are a few nifty features. The clues can be enlarged by hovering over them with the mouse pointer. Clicking on an empty field sets the starting point for filling the blank spaces. Clicking on the same field repeatedly toggles the solving direction. The solution can be posted and eventually saved in a database for a prize draw.
The puzzle is entirely configurable through an external file, including the position and size of the picture.
URL:
http://icarus.dzs.si/igre/krizanka/
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Tags: Flash, Flash 6, Renderspace, web application
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Sunday, April 20th, 2003
Agencija 41 is one of the better and more successful advertising agencies in Slovenia. This is why, they felt no need to present themselves online with anything else than their work. No introduction, no explanation, just their latest projects and clients. While the interface was very minimalistic, graphically, the site structure has many levels. The site features also a video player for TV ads and an MP3 player for radio ads.
While it looks simple enough to produce, the project is a classic example of how too many cooks spoil the broth. There was a lot of power-play and politics involved during production, we had the site almost finished when it was trashed and completely redesigned. But eventually the situation cooled down and Matevž and I started communicating directly to creative and technical teams of Agencija 41 and finished the site so that everybody was pleased. The best thing is to cut out the middle man where creative and technical work is involved.
Since it wasn’t going to be hosted at Renderspace and Agencija 41 wanted full control over the site administration, I had to come up with a cheap and not overly complicated solution for producing video and audio conversion. This meant creating small stand-alone applications for batch processing using mostly open-source. And of course teaching the site administrator to use all the software.
URL:
http://www.agencija41.si
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Tags: Agencija 41, Flash, Flash 6, Renderspace, website
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2003
After I started working at Renderspace, I had more time to do other projects, because the schedule was not as hectic as Parsek’s. My web programmer friend Ivan, who I’d worked with closely at Parsek for quite some time, asked me if I’d be interested in creating electronic forms for the Cliniporator database.
The Cliniporator is an electroporation device used for research in effective DNA transfer in gene therapy. When cells are exposed to electrical fields of sufficient intensity, their membranes become more permeable, allowing large molecules such as some drugs or nucleic acids to enter the cell.
The electronic forms that I created enabled visually adding points where the patient’s tumors are located and entering attributes and details about the therapy for each one. The information is then stored in a database and can be retrieved and analyzed statistically or otherwise.
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Tags: Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Flash, Flash 6, web application
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2003
MTV Journal was supposed to be an online community for MTV viewers. The user gets their own journal, which they can personalize and vote for videos on each of the four MTV charts.
However, the site wasn’t done with the right enthusiasm from any of the involved parties, so it kind of died down before it even started.
URL:
http://www.mtvjournal.net
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Tags: Flash, Flash 6, MTV Networks Europe, Renderspace, website
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Monday, January 13th, 2003
My involvement in the production of this website was rather low. I did was a calendar application for the programme section, but apparently, they don’t use it at all, so it’s empty all the time. I believe the rest of the site was done by Fry and Boris.
I think this was Parsek’s first site running on the CP2 architecture.
URL:
http://www.mg-lj.si
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Tags: Flash, Flash 5, Moderna Galerija Ljubljana, Parsek, website
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Tuesday, November 26th, 2002
A minisite that I don’t really like that much. I wasn’t really on the same page with the new designer on this one, so the result was a bit questionable. The TV spot featured the new Mégane driving across the landscape on the Moon, trying to show how well it stuck to the road. So the minisite was set in something that was supposed to be a collosal empty space station with a floating thing, which was a bit of a Lenny Kravitz video rip-off, serving as a projector. In the background, there were a few silhouettes exported from Walk Designer kind of jumping around and stuff.
Anyway, I had a hard time doing this, because using 3D renders in Flash is really tricky if you want to keep the Flash small, and especially if you don’t have the whole thing completely worked out in advance. I had a hard time explaining this to the designer and I ultimately failed. He basically just handed me the pre-rendered elements and I had to figure out how to use them. Not to mention that the design didn’t provide any way to include the content at first.
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Tags: Flash, Flash 5, minisite, Parsek, Renault Slovenia, Revoz
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Friday, November 22nd, 2002
This minisite is basically a mix of things we’d done in the past: expanding menus, tsunami menus, Japanese type, the spring effect…
I think I did most of it, but I remember I knew I won’t be able to finish it for some reason and I triend to make the code as readable to Fry as possible, so he could add the e-card application and finish adding the content.
I remember programming this riding a bus to Nova Gorica where I was giving a lecture at Mobilatorij .
Launch minisite
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Tags: Flash, Flash 6, minisite, Parsek, Renault Japan
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Wednesday, October 9th, 2002
A web application that was used on several Parsek sites, including the election campaign website of LDS (Liberal Democrats of Slovenia) and the Renault Slovenija website. The application generates clickable points on the map according to dynamically loaded coordinates defined by the Gauss-Krüger system. This way, the points needn’t be positioned manually, but can be loaded from an external XML source, such as a static file or dynamically generated from a database resultset.
Example:
http://www.renault.si/storitve/servisi/index.jsp
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Tags: Flash, Flash 5, LDS, Parsek, web application
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Wednesday, October 2nd, 2002
I think this was one of the coolest websites we did at Parsek. Nordcross is a production company of Igor Zupe and Sašo Podgoršek who have done a lot of cool stuf for NSK over the years. We tried to get away from the standard website interface and create something more experimental. The result was pretty cool, especially for those times, and it was a big technical achievement, since it was done with the new Flash 5 and featured QuickTime video. Although the two had been used before, the all-flash site with QuickTime seemingly embedded into it was a breakthrough at the time. After some time, when new browsers came out, the “video over flash” didn’t work anymore, so I decided to try to rebuild the site in Flash 6 as an exercise, enabling the viewing of videos again by using the new video feature in Flash. The site was designed by Ozi, the video preview animations were done by Žiga, the desktops were done by both of them, and the background music was provided by 300.000 V.K.
URL:
http://www.nordcross.com
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Tags: Flash, Flash 5, Flash 6, Nordcross, Parsek, website
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Tuesday, September 24th, 2002
After heavy negotiations between Parsek and Renault Slovenija, they agreed on redesigning their existing and very out-of-date website. I think this is one of the sites I’m most proud of, becuase by then, I had enough experience with what should be done dynamically and how. It was a big step forward in the sense that the structure was so well planned, that there is still no need to replace the site.
In addition, it makes very good use of the internet as a medium, offering many different services that makes life at least a bit easier for owners (and future owners) of Renault vehicles. It’s definitely not an advertising site, but a service for their customers.
In spite of huge amounts of content on the site, it looks light and it’s easy to navigate. What I like most about it is that, once it was done, there was never any need to modify the site’s skeleton. The textual and visual content is fed via JSP generated XML and managed through Parsek’s SeeEdit CMS. How the site’s layout works is cross-browser voodoo that only Fry can do.
URL:
http://www.renault.si
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Tags: Flash, Flash 5, Parsek, Renault Slovenia, Revoz, website
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