Here we have an AJAX application powered gadget used to browse my magazine project. Using original code, MIT Lightbox scripts, and an FX program, the page manages to dynamically load photos into a self resizing DIV tag, along with comments about what piece you're looking at. Estimates loading times, and shows an animation (Apple!) to keep you occupied.

Launch MagazineViewer 1.0 This is a complete project.

Completed for in a class for Professor McFeely, this is a self contained Flash website. Immediatly from the start you will notice a dynamic server side loading script which accuratly displays how much of the content data is loaded before launching.

FEATURES TO TRY:

• Click on the PRADA Gallery on the frontpage.
• Open the GADGETS story.
• When you get a PAGE NOT FOUND, click the Window Title bar. You can DRAG IT using an ActionScript control I implemented!

Launch StyleWatch This is a Class Project, and is not a complete site.

When the Eckhaus Gallery was opening, I was the Identity Director of the project. My signage is currently hanging over the sidewalk on Main Street. Along with the ID, I also built them a complex website which... unfortunately, proved to be too complicated for them and it had to be replaced with a much more simple solution.

My version of the website used ServerSide Includes to load the same menus on each page, had an awesome PHP Database powered Forum, where ANYBODY could start an account on the server and post conversations and artwork for critique, and a CGI powered Client Login which allowed the Eckhaus staff members to post things to the frontpage without having to know any HTML.

I was very dismayed when the site proved too complicated for any of the fine artists to work with, and with it all being an unpaid project there was no way I could remain a full time webmaster for them.

Launch the Eckhaus Website This is a complete website, EXCEPT the forum. With the site being hastily relaunched on my own server the PHP Database is no longer in place to make it work.

This is my current BIG project I've been putting together. Before I go on, please realize this is a VERY EARLY BETA VERSION of this project and is in no way complete for fully functional. I am including it to show some of the very new and advanced tricks being used.

The goal of this is to build new interactive ways to browse a portfolio website. The components, once finished, will be implemented into a much nicer, refined new personal website I am putting together. This is the proving grounds for the different modules.

FEATURES TO TRY:

• In the Portfolio, click through the different tabs such as Identity, Package, Etc. The available selections will FADE IN from dynamically hidden DIV Tags!
  
  
• Once you make a selection in the portfolio, links will SLIDE INTO EACH OTHER! This is a VERY advanced script running it, and is still quite full of bugs on my end. NOTE: The sliding will not work until all images in the "carousel" of slides has loaded. Once you get to the end, it will slide you into dead space... the final project would have it link to the next project to view.
  
  
• In the Profile, all of the body copy is in a floating, transparent DIV which adds Scroll bars to itself (it is NOT an iFrame). The entire top navigation also becomes Alpha Transparent, a trick VERY hard to do across Firefox, IE, and Safari. Any photo loaded into the background would be visible through all of the page content! This is all done with a VERY large CSS file!
  
  
• Interesting note: Every single thing in this site is CSS controlled. There is absolutely NO standard HTML markup controlling ANYTHING.

Launch the Advanced AJAX Controls This is NOT a complete site, but powerful AJAX controls for you to try out. It is LOADED with bugs though.

Last but not least is my 2006 portfolio website. The work images are all pretty dated, as is the entire identity, hence why it is no longer online. I wanted to include it though because dated as it may be, it still integrates an easy to use navigation with interesting interactive controls. Header and Footers are SSI calls.

FEATURES TO TRY:

• On the frontpage, the NEWS is loaded in an iFrame from an external file.
  
  
• In the Portfolio, images of work load up in an embedded, scrolling frame.
  
  
• A Contact Form uses server side JavaScript to send messages directly to my mailbox on the server, without having to use an email program.

Launch my 2006 Portfolio Site This is a complete site, just dated a bit.

Another class project from Professor McFeely that I grew out a little bit more than the instructions required. This simple site demonstrates DHTML behaviors making multiple calls at once, making a rollover of one image create 3 behavior changes at once (both rolling over itself, changing her eyes, and switching her talk bubble).

FEATURES TO TRY:

• Roll Over all of the options and watch her eyes.
  
  
• Click on something and get the Page Error. If you click Back to Menu, the page uses JavaScript to close itself.
  

Launch Rollover Calls Kids Site This is a Class Project, and is not a complete site.