A poster making application for Cbeebies, designed by Alex at Swordfish, but coded by me.

Kids can select a background and images of animals to place on it - they can scale and move the animals how they like and also add their own titles.

They can also submit their picture to a gallery for other children to see, email a link to their friends to come and see their picture in the gallery and also print it off, either in colour or in black and white.

It’s built in Flash, inevitably, with a mySQL and php back-end, passing information back and forth in xml.

Rockcandy Records had started developing a much more complex site but had run into difficulties. They asked me if I could build something quickly that they could edit and update and also include an e-commerce solution, all for a minimal budget.

The site is based on Wordpress, with custom templates based on their original site design. It uses the XD-Forum plugin to provide a forum, a plugin simply called Mailing-List to provide a mailing list and interfaces with the PayPal Shopping Cart to allow people to buy Rockcandy’s records. And Wordpress being easy to install, it didn’t take long to put it in place, either.

And, hopefully, it rocks.

www.rockcandyrecords.com

Jack Stalwart is the hero of a series of children’s books written by Elizabeth Singer Hunt. Jack is a nine year old super spy who travels the world solving mysteries and thwarting criminals with an array of amazing gadgets.

The aim of the site was to allow the visitor into Jack’s world, to become a spy and investigator for themselves. It was also key to include many of the informative and educational elements of the books, particularly features on world geography and culture.

The site lets kids explore Jack’s own bedroom and through it, his world. The aim is to extend the site as the books develop, adding more features - especially games, always a popular feature with children.

http://www.jackstalwart.com/

This was a pilot for an interactive soap for the BBC. The audience would have a mocked up ‘desktop’ and would receive video messages from the characters, each containing a segment of an episode’s plot. Occassional ‘instant messages’ would allow the audience to interact with the characters, altering plot outcomes by making decisions.

I was heavily involved in the development of the concept and the eventual show. I helped structure the interactive segments of the drama and how they fitted in with the main plotlines.

I also built the Flash application for the pilot, using Flash video, XML data and components to create the desktop effect (to a design by Will). The interactive sequences required the video to seek and jump to different cue points depending on the audience choices.

Bomb had designed a new site for Henson’s Creature Workshop which I implemented in Flash in conjunction with a suite of back-end editing tools that I wrote in Perl.The tools meant that Hensons would be able to update the site easily while still keeping the swish flash front end.

Sadly although the site was fully completed and functional, it never went live due to issues at the Creature Workshop.