Web Portfolio
- JSWEC (2008)
- JSWEC (2007)
- ELTEP design (2007)
- SWAP (2006)
- Ashley Photographic (2005)
- Exclusive Homes (2004)
- CAM Publishing (2004)
- Harbour Eye 2 (2004)
- JPS inputting system (2003)
- Combat South (2003)
- Jobs XML parser (2002)
- Motors XML parser (2002)
- The News (2002)
- Mayville High School (2002)
- Harbour Eye (2001)
- Yeomans Honda (2001)
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Harbour Eye (September 2001)
http://www.harboureye.co.uk (no longer live)
Description
Built in partnership with Gales Ales and Oggle, this site provided live streaming video and weather information from Portsmouth Harbour. The site included a basic click-through advertising system and some historical information on the harbour. The first JPSEP site to top 1,000,000 page impressions in a month and an article in MediaWeek magazine, the Harbour Eye was a resounding success. It's launch coincided with the Festival of the Sea and there was plenty of traffic in the harbour to watch onscreen.
Tools
- Coldfusion
- Coldfusion Studio
- Fireworks
Technical
Oggle provided the camera system and the Java applet required to display the streaming video. I built a design for the site in flat HTML (it was ultimately going to be hosted on a basic Linux server). I used many archive images from The News library to provide a rich feel to the site. We also linked to useful information on The News website such as shipping times and marine weather (since the new-look site went live though, this feature has fallen by the wayside). Because of the unique opportunity of selling advertising on the site, I created several styles of advertsing - a transistion advert (as the user passes between pages on the site, we can display a sponsorship logo for 5-10 seconds), footer banners (5 or 6 little images linking to external sites) and section sponsorship (a local company could sponsor an entire page of the site and we would incorporate sponsorship logos, colour schemes etc. into the page). Ultimately, the only scheme chosen was the footer banners, which are managed locally at the News. Since it went live, there has been much 'tinkering' with the site and it has lost a few useful features including a 5-second clip view for slower connections and a search facility to find particular events. The archive has been dramatically shortened which is a shame.
In 2004 I constructed a new Harbour Eye site using a much improved layout with some new advertising features.