Do you remember the last time someone confronted you with some of your early work? Yesterday during a meeting an old friend pointed out to me that one of the first public sites we ever made was still online. So today just before shutting down my pc I googled for the site and yes, there it was: the 1996 first edition of the Suikerrock rockfestival website!
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Not interested in politics? Maybe you should be. Why? During campaigns the candidates try to get the most out of the web and we as web professionals can learn a thing or two from their efforts.
On the Junglerating site i noticed an interesting comparison of the sites of both democratic candidates, and even more interestingly: the internet features they use to make their websites as effective as possible.
Read the story on the Jungle rating website:
Internet professionals: Get 5 tips from Clinton and Obama!
This is an example of a New Year’s card application (some 2 years old) but still something I would like to include in my portfolio. Not just because it was a fun project (the message you can send to your friend is made by typing and shuffling letters on the fridge) but also because this is one of the few occassions I had the opportunity to work with Coldfusion.
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Yes, the tax widget now has been officially approved by the Yahoo! widgets team and starting today is available for download from the gallery.
You can check it out for yourself on the Yahoo widget Gallery.
Will Microsoft or Apple do the same when it becomes a dedicated Vista / OS X Dashboard widget somewhere in the future? Hmm….
A while ago in 2007 Duval Guillaume made this bilingual mini-site for their client Dexia. And me, I got the chance to try out a PHP framework called CodeIgniter. What’s so special about it? Well… this was the first time I chose to work with CodeIgniter and I’ve been in love ever since.
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Starting from this January 2008 I switched from being a full time employee to being a full time freelancer. For those of you with similar plans there are several interesting sites out there and one of my favourite ones just published a very useful book, available either as a PDF or paperback.
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Simple things like embedding a Flash SWF into the blog seem evident, but apparently WP doesn’t like the EMBED/OBJECT tags very much. And there are other reasons not to use the embed/object tags anyway (like the ‘click first to activate this control’-feature in Internet Explorer).
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For Happiness Brussels i helped with a dynamic mailing that required a personalised score to be shown in every mail.
Two graphs were included in the mail and actually it was *fun* to create the system that generated the personalised graphs for each mail. Oops… does that make me sound too much like a geek?
I ended up making separate classes for the LCD screen and the graph itself, so it was easy to change the graphs if necessary.
No, from now on graphs don’t scare me anymore 
Somehow i have a special connection with maps. Maybe it’s because i like to travel and explore. Even when sitting behind my pc in a small room i wanna get the feeling that ‘there is more out there’. And working on maps is one way to convince you of that
These are two examples of map applications in Flash i made for Duval Guillaume. What’s interesting about these is that both have a Flash to Javascript connection so the Flash movie could communicate with the html page it was in.
A simplified version of that map can still be found on the Vlaanderen vakantieland site.
The second example was made for the Weekendesk.be website. It’s part of a search engine where you can select several items on the page (including the country and place on the map) to select possible destinations:
Try it online: go to the weekendesk search page
A small minisite that i-Merge made for Tiense Suiker. It got a nice ‘cup shuffling’ routine where you had to guess under which cup lay the sugar cube.
I helped with the shuffling game and some of the finishing touches (like the registration pages at the end)
The minisite is no longer online now (was part of a campaign)
