Me and the guys from Bureau BlauwGeel have been working together on their new website: http://www.bureaublauwgeel.nl
The CMS-based website uses video files to create a dynamic, living and breathing background.
Each menu item has a background image that slowly zooms in to keep that dynamic feel.
Although the background and interface always adjust to the size of [...]
Another new exciting project I’m working on is the newspaper editor. This project is built for dutch newspapers (starting with the Leeuwarder Courant) who want to make their archived frontpages available and customizable.
The idea is that you select the newspaper frontpage of your favourite date (say your birthdate). You will be presented with the real vintage frontpage. You can then choose to order a print straight away, but it’s more fun to choose the second option: customize.
Start by placing a box on top of the newspaper image, and then choose to fill it with your own photo or text. After uploading your image, you can crop it and see the cropping result in realtime in your newspaper.
Selecting an image.
Cropping an image.
You can also create text boxes and save them to your newspaper. As with the image, you see your text editing work appear in realtime on your newspaper frontpage.
The last step is ordering your customized frontpage and hanging it above your couch!
Of course these few images don’t really do justice to the real project, you can try out the application for yourself at http://lc.eigenvoorpagina.nl
When searching around the web for a Caroussel (rotating images) I found that most existing caroussel components use linear animation and mostly aren’t clickable. To make a more versatile class I copied the basic rotation functions from an existing caroussel, I added the greensock tweening class and made the items clickable.
There’s still a small bug where the last item in the list rotates in the opposite direction! You can view the example here, and download the actionscript class here.
