By Brian | September 20, 2008
The Partly Cloudy WordPress theme is customized for bands who need seamless multimedia and tour date integration with the WordPress admin panel. The theme is currently under development and will be released under Creative Commons licensing with full template files and a layered PSD. Work performed: logo design, site design, XHTML, CSS, PHP, Flash
By Brian | August 1, 2008
Don’t invest your resources in unproven ideas. Prototype the idea first, make it live, and make adjustments as necessary based on user feedback. This idea was reinforced on a recent project that I directed. The scope of the project was to redesign an online donation application with a goal of increasing donations. The redesigned page [...]
Dear Adobe: I’m sorry I said those nasty things about search engines not loving Flash. It looks like you and Google are getting along. Now textual content—menus, buttons, banners, and website copy—are freely searchable, and I’m happy for you. I hope some day soon Google will work out those remaining issues with indexing external resources [...]
After years of struggling with client-side support for video formats, I finally have a clear favorite. With over 98% penetration on users’ computer systems, Adobe Flash ensures that visitors to the Peace Corps website see our videos. The video player is an adaptation of Jeroen Wijering’s FLV Media Player, which was chosen for it’s playlist, [...]
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I’m super excited to announce that Peace Corps and Threespot Media have received a Webby Award in the government category for the Peace Corps {teens} website. This is the second nomination and first win for our collaboration with Threespot. Peace Corps {teens} was launched in July 2007 to attract a new audience of American teenagers [...]
By Brian | April 14, 2008
If you deal with a website that has any sizable amount of content, you understand that asset management can quickly get out of hand. I’m guilty of this, and I’m here to come clean: I have a junk drawer, and it’s name is the “images” folder. A quick look at my “images” folder reveals multiple [...]
The Peace Corps Challenge is an interactive game aimed at sparking interest in volunteering among youth. The game gives children the opportunity to work in the fictional village of Wanzuzu as a Peace Corps Volunteer. Kids must work with local villagers and Peace Corps members to solve eight different challenges facing Wanzuzu. Work Performed: information [...]
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By Brian | March 24, 2008
Flash has always been a great vehicle for delivering multimedia content on the web. I’m always wowed by its unlimited bounds, but I’m simultaneously disappointed by its poor handling of SEO and accessibility. While the rest of the web has evolved into a rich and standards-based medium, Flash and its developers have concentrated on beefing [...]
By Brian | March 17, 2008
According to Jakob Nielsen’s latest Alertbox, Company Name First in Microcontent? Sometimes!, optimizing content for SEO may change due to search engine results pages (SERPs) with junk links. These results typically consist of sites that exist solely to earn revenue from link referrals. Recent SEO best practices encourage deemphasizing the site’s name and using reverse [...]
For most of the SXSW Interactive Conference, you’ll be sitting at the convention center or stuffing your face with appetizers and drinks at an evening event. Refresh your body and and join fellow SXSW Interactive participants for a leisurely morning run through Austin. We’ll meet at the entrance to Brush Park (across from the North [...]
