The main purpose of this site is to get people to apply to the university. Everything is designed to do this in some shape or form. Whether it's providing information about the university, showing off student work, talking about the community, or providing access to university events; it all works towards the purpose of getting people to choose to attend UAT.

This was a very large scale project I worked on with a large group of talented people. My main areas of contribution were with Flash and CSS. I also helped a bit with design and some javascript, but the bulk of that was done by other people.

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This site was where I really got to cut my teeth on Flash design and development and also when I developed a real passion for it. For all the applications I was given static mockups and got to figure out how to make them functional. I also figured out how to recreate all the raster mockups using Flash's vector drawing API in ActionScript. This reduced the file sizes to a fraction of what they were originally and provided a lot of flexibility in how they were displayed.

UAT Homepage - setting up the media heavy homepage so that it functioned correctly and loaded quickly
UAT Navs - creating dynamic navigations that loaded a lot of external data
UAT TV - setting up everything to get the Flash streaming server to function correctly
Image Browser - an application that allowed a lot of images to be shown in a small area.

I was responsible for the bulk of the CSS on the site. This involved making sure that there was consistency as you navigated between the different colored sections as well as working with scripts to maintain a certain look and feel with the different visual effects. I also worked closely with the art director to develop and implement the different layouts for the content across the site.

The bulk of the javascript was done by other people but I did some implementing of different effects around the site. I also did quite a bit of form validation. The only really unique project I did was writing a Photoshop script to create the graphic headers on each page. Eventually having to manually run the script started to become a block in page creation. To bypass this a group of server side people figured out how to have it run automatically in conjunction with the CMA, which was pretty awesome.