Web development history

New stuff

The International Antarctic Institute
Ongoing

A web site for an emerging institution. Key features? My first real break in the non-experimental world from tables. It is 100% CSS layout. It scales, and it was lots of fun. Look out - there will be more.

weiqb.com
September 2004

A web site for a local Chinese artist. The brief? Build a place for Wei to show her wares. The solution? A fully standard-compliant, liquid-layout web site with cunning navigation and a customised gallery installation. The first of a new generation - although the gallery mods no longer exist :-(

mooble.com.au
April 2004

A 'testing the waters' site - trying out some CSS ideas, and, well - not really using them again. I did the site as a favour for a friend, and handed all management over once I'd done a quick-and-dirty layout. It's now changed - a lot - for the better! The new site was designed by someone else - I just did what you see here.

Cocktails by the light of the moon
March 2004

A fancy-schmancy web-based party RSVP system for a shindig back in the casa de coranderrk. Of course, if one is going to party, one must party well - in the finest and most modern style. A piece of early CSS magic, with some playful MySQL bits and bobs. SImply gorgeous, darlings!

Dead done gone stuff...

	The Centre for Business Dynamics and Knowledge Management [CBDKM] My brief for this web site was to build an attractive and simple interface for an existing information structure - and do it quickly. I started with an idea of how the content was to be presented, and an image of the globe from a slide show used by the centre. The splash page [top] shows the main navigational heirarchy. Moving to any of the available selections a secondary heirarchy was also presented, stacked along the left side of the page. It is a pretty basic site - plain HTML and JavaScript image rollovers. The site is resizeable for any screen and viewable in any graphic-display browser. All the graphic work was done in Illustrator and Photoshop. The complete site including adding text content took 40 hours.
	Pearlqueen This was a small, limited budget comapny that just wanted a web site to display their wares and provide contact and ordering information. Pearlqueen didn't have any existing company graphics so I made everything up as I went along, approving each stage with the client. The job took 20 hours, including scanning all the images and creating graphics. The site has JavaScript image rollovers, CSS1 style sheets and was designed in a modular fashion to make incorporation of online purchasing easier.
	Orima research This web site was created in 1999 for a market research company that wanted a basic and easy to use online presence. After initial positive responses the company gave up on the idea and went for a framed site.
	My own relics ...for good measure. Some previous iterations of my web sites, predating adstereo.net by a year or two. The top one was actually a web site, with the navigation buttons recycled through the whole site, although in content pages they lay along the top. Tricky, huh? The bottom one was a prototype design that I never had time to develop. I called it the tennis ball.