The main purpose of this site is to promote and get people to play the Wizard101 game. The secondary purposes are to allow customers to manage their accounts and to create a community for the players to interact with.

This was a very large scale project I worked on with a team from the ground up. A lot of people were involved in this, with lots of bits and pieces going to everyone. My two greatest areas of contribution for this site are flash and javascript.

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I've done quite a bit of application development as well as some character animation for the Wizard101 site. Everything is done in ActionScript 3, mostly using object oriented design. The Flash projects were the one area that I was allowed some freedom of design, so all the graphical assets are of my making. Mostly I was trying to mimic the look of the things from the Wizard101 game, but everything was recreated in vector so that flash would work with it better. The projects I developed for this site were the first time I learned how to make resizeable and reskinnable applications.

Splash Page - a splash page designed to keep new visitors from being overwhelmed when visiting the site for the first time.
Character Animations - a bunch of animations I did for the site to add appeal.
Slideshow/Filmstrip - the catchall utility for showing off media from the game.
Marker Utility - designed to show a bunch of little bits of graphical information in a small space.

A lot of work was done to extend both jQuery and scriptaculous to meet the specific needs of the site. A lot of the forms are displayed in a popup (a design decision I would oppose in the future, it causes more problems than it solves) and a tremendous amount of work has gone into making it function as the end user would expect it to. There is a lot of communication that goes on between the page and the flash applications, so I created javascript frameworks to run all of those. There is also quite a lot of work that was done to support the back end: form validation and operation, displaying data and generally controlling the look and feel of the site.

Most of the CSS for the site was done by Kerry Blanchard but there are bits and pieces all over the site where I contributed. The area that I did the most work in was the forums, otherwise it was just getting specific sections to work correctly.