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BU Annual Report 2010
Each year, BU publishes an annual report to update the community on the status of the university in various categories such as research, campus life, and financials. The publication features an accompanying website designed to coincide with the look and feel of the print pub. See my discussion on the 2009 Annual Report for reference. This year I created a new Flash introductory experience and all of the JavaScript functionality on top of a layout design by Scott Dasse.
BU Research Magazine 2010 Homepage
Each year BU publishes a research magazine detailing the efforts of the university and its achievements in various fields. The magazine has an accompanying website housing all the content online for those who choose to read there. My job was to take the existing cover and implement an interpretation of the design (Scott Dasse) in Flash. The print cover is below:
The Flash translation randomly generates the order and speed of the different topics and simply moves them across the screen. Hovering stops the entire line a given topic is in and helps it to stand out.
Bostonia – Kenya Feature
The Kenya feature article was the cover article for the Winter-Spring 2010 issue of BU’s magazine, Bostonia. A videographer visited Kenya and shot an amazing collection of video relating to the article and it was decided that the presentation for the web would be an interactive video feature to accompany the text article. They linked back and forth between each other (article deep linking to a specific video and videos anchor-linking to a section of the article or the comments section).
College of Communications
As a graduate from the College of Communications (COM), it was a privilege to work on the redesign. The old site was extremely dated and needed a big revamp.
The new design aimed to bring timely news/events, student/faculty/class work (in the form of COM Stories), and department information to the forefront, improve content organization and uniformity, and bring the site into the present. Here’s the new homepage:
Edustyle.net posts BU Annual Report 2009 as a Noteworthy Site
Posted by Aaron in Recognition on April 1, 2010
Also features International Programs site, which I participated in (enhance homepage Flash component, provide chromeless video players for some headers on internal pages).
Boston University Annual Report 2009
My first project working at Boston University was a survey of the University’s operating status and health, the Annual Report. The website supplements a mailed, custom publication that drives to the web through URLs and a USB key. As a fount of information about BU, the site attracts thousands of unique visitors.
A Farewell Update to a-g.com
I am leaving Allen & Gerritsen as of Friday the 9th and starting a job as a Flash/Web Developer at Boston University on Oct. 13. As the latter of my two weeks notice period elapses, I’m catching up on things that have been on the back burner as well as finishing off projects and documenting projects upon which I’ve been the sole developer. One of those back burner projects was enhancements for http://www.a-g.com which, as a result of a potential new site concept being nixed, could no longer be put off “till the new site went live.” See below for the additions.
Since the company has embraced social media rather rapidly, they really wanted to get the company Twitter feed incorporated on the site. This small addition pulls in the user timeline XML file, breaks it up into two-tweet-pages, and links each tweet back to its home on Twitter. The more tweets text takes you to the full a&g Twitter page.
Search integration. In the drive to bring everything you’d expect from a plain HTML/dynamic site to Flash, we needed to incorporate search. Uses WordPress feed based searching to return XML results that meet our custom tagging criteria (some posts do not appear on the Flash site and only appear on the HTML version that lies behind it at http://blogs.a-g.com). Click an item here, and the UI loads the blog as if you’d launched it from the menu, but it also reveals the URL you could give out to someone in the event you wanted to direct link them to that post.
And here’s the new look. Search box in the lower right. Farewell a&g!
I still have a post to write about Endway, a WordPress customization project, and possibly a quick link about MySpace page customization, but it appears MySpace changed some of their layout/CSS and it broke the page I customized a little bit.
More photos of the comment system in action, as it is starting to create the conversations we originally hoped would develop:
Keane
Looking to enhance the appearance of the Keane website, we put together a new look for Keane. Designed by Charlie Guerrero and co-developed with Max Guerrero. My primary contribution to this site was layout implementation and assistance with further customization after the .NET structure was established. I also implemented the dynamic features on the homepage. As always, we targeted IE6/7/8, Firefox 2/3, and Safari 3/4.
Reuseable XML Driven Flash Microsite (clubhouse.a-g.com, p2p.a-g.com, www.newmodelarmyusa.com)
Originally as a means to highlight specific segments of work for targetted consumption, I worked with Charlie Guerrero to put together a template of sorts, driven entirely by XML, to allow for customization of content and reuse of the project. So far, the “site” has been used three times: http://clubhouse.a-g.com, http://p2p.a-g.com, and most recently http://www.newmodelarmyusa.com. The images below are in that order.
Also please note, images in this post are PNGs and are much larger than previous posts, please be a bit patient with the image loader if you choose to view them larger as this blog is just on shared hosting.
The 99 Restaurant
The 99 Restaurant chain, a long-term client of a&g, had an aging website. I was the developer on a project designed by Barbara Malec to give the 99 website a significant facelift, help make things more dynamic and easier to update, as well as more modern.
