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o sum up: Only a small sample of what's to come... (This page was last changed around May 1997, so it's starting to smell a little) Sites Well, here we are again. At last, after about 8 months of gathering staleness(?). The cause for this lack of information was that I have spent most of this time working on a new website for the network, the media buying arm of Ogilvy & Mather in the UK. I have to say, I'm most pleased with the results (just don't go there if hanging around waiting for pages to load isn't your thing - the site was intended to be viewed over a leased line, and there are some fairly large pages on there - most check in at between 20-100k). Much of my work on the site was behind-the-scenes programming, but I also did the html for 90% of the pages on there (and the ones I didn't do, I soon edited beyond recognition, so that they would meet with my web-facist approval). Oh yeah, and I spent quite a while choosing some sounds and trying to get them to loop more or less regularly (not an easy task given the varying gaps between loops inserted by different web browsers on different machines). Did I mention the programming? Prior to this, my favourite accomplishment was the Jolly Rancher UK site. I did most of this, including 90% of the ideas for the site, about two-thirds of the programming and virtually all of the html (the graphics are Pete's though, although I accept responsibility for allowing a plethora of assistants mutilate them with dithering, aliasing and cyan-halo effects the like of which this world has never seen before. I think I just about saved most of it at the last minute). You can see here a toned-down version of my first perl script - the electronic postcard program I wrote for Diesel (adapted by Jay). I cut my teeth, web-wise, workorking on the Diesel Jeans UK website, which won the Yell/.net award for best designed UK website, 1996. I was responsible in part for some of the later striking (and extremely tedious to download) front screens, but more fun was working on their programs. I also had to do vast amounts of image-tidying, as well as some of the more mundane layout. However, the powers that be within Diesel deemed last year that all web-weaving should be done from Italy, so we lost the site to these guys. I've also been responsible for the last few issues of Neon magazine, which is part of the e-on empire. To see Neon, if you must, you have to visit the site, register (for free) and then go to the magazines section. Not so much of the fun stuff to do on this one - I don't get much time, what with reports to spell, grammar and obscenity-check, pictures to scan and prepare, websites to review... I also helped with the re-creation of G-Spot's web pages - Zaid takes the credit for most of this one (I also blame him for images that have no width, height and alt tags, and pages with no ending body tags - all he needed to do was read my webtips. He did a good job on sorting out the design when I couldn't get a single idea in my head. Again, all the programming was mine.
Oh yeah, I also did about 80% of the html for CompuServe UK's site. But I'd rather erase all memory of that episode.
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