projects
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recent work
Curzon Park Capital
Freestyle Developments were asked by the venture capital fund Curzon Park Capital to build the HTMl and CSS for this beautifully designed website.
- See the Curzon Park website at www.curzonparkcapital.com
WinkBall Project
Working again for Correspondent Corp. we built the HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Flash elements of this colourful website.
- See the WinkBall Project website at www.winkballproject.com
Healthy Yummies
Telegramme came up with a great design for this creative catering company and kindly asked us to build a HTML and CSS template for use with the site's WordPress CMS backend.
- See the site at www.healthyyummies.com
ChristmaSee
We dubbed the flash header of this website the "ChristmaSee Merry Go Round". It features a number of Christmas themed objects popping up and scrolling across the screen. Coded completely by Freestyle Developments, it was our first go at doing the "hard maths" that is involved with popping up each Christmas object.
- The promotion has ended, but you can have a look at the Merry Go Round here
Our Future Planet Flash Wheel
Inspired by the Facebook Friends Wheel application, this interactive flash wheel shows how different categories within the Our Future Planet website are interlinked.
Coded in Actionscript 3, the wheel makes a XML remote procedure call to the Joomla backend to find out what categories are available and how they are linked. The categories are positioned equally around the globe graphic on the fly and the links are draw dynamically when the mouse is positioned over each category.
- See the wheel in action at www.ourfutureplanet.org/ideas-globe
idc
Working for Naked Group, we made the menu seen on the new idc website – a javascript based sliding menu that had to also still be useable without javascript enabled, in IE6,7 Firefox, Opera and Safari. The result for users with javascript enabled is a fabulously animated menu. Users without javascript see a purely CSS based drop down menu (which owes a lot to this CSS menu).
- See the menu in action at www.idc.uk.com
Our Future Planet
Implementation of an altered site look, a wealth of new content, and a number of interactive widgets were needed by this not for profit organisation. Their website and email are now both hosted by freestyle developments.
- See the new look site at www.ourfutureplanet.org
Walney Radiators
The Walney site was in the middle of being refreshed when Freestyle Developments were asked by Digerati Studio to step in and finish off a custom built CMS and radiator design wizard. This involved working on the flash based room resizer (which allows website users to dynamically drag out the size of their room) and developing the complex logic and calculations that are used to create and store custom radiator designs for users of the site.
- See the new look site at www.walneyuk.com
Pegasus Homes
MediaClash needed a XHTML and CSS build for the new look Pegasus website which was ready to be used with the new Joomla content management system that was also being integrated into the site.
- See the new look site at www.pegasus-homes.co.uk
Tetris!
Whilst messing around with the MooTools JavaScript framework, we thought it would be nice to actually make something fun. Tetris is fun. So we made it.
- We call our creation MooTris – play the game
MyAthens
Heard of iGoogle? Its basically a fun portal which allows you to place boxes of content onto the page, then move them, minimise them, close them and whatnot. Freestyle were asked to create something similar using the MooTools JavaScript framework
- See the site at www.athensams.net/myathens
- Unfortunately the draggable boxes aren't publically available. You can however, have a play with the demo here
First off, great job - it works really, really well - exactly as we want it to. The code looks really good too, very clean and clearly labeled.
– Liam McMurray from Element Media commenting on our work
Flipside
We did some design! We don't usually do design, but we like to think it turned out pretty well. We also built the XHTML and CSS templates.
- See the site at www.flipsideboards.co.uk
XMB Forum CAPTCHA
Up until very recently, XMB forum didn't have a CAPTCHA for registration. Meaning that tons of spambots could register on their forums and post their spam willy nilly. We created a CAPTCHA solution for the registration process using reCAPTCHA. We found reCAPTCHA interesting because each word users are asked to type in helps them to digitise books, in a much more reliable way than OCR ever could. It also means that we don't have to do any complicated coding to generate a word which a computer can't read...which in our books is a win win situation.
- The code is compatible with version 1.9.7 and includes installation instructions.
other work
This work wasn't done by Alan as part of Freestyle Developments. Alan was however, the lead developer on this selection of projects whilst he was working at MediaClash.
SouthGate Bath
A website to inform the public about the SouthGate redevelopment in Bath. The site is administered in its entirity by Joomla! – a popular open source CMS. Our favourite parts of the site are the Web 2.0 style gallery and FAQ section – which were made using prototype and script.aculo.us.
- See the site at www.southgatebath.com
Blackfish Publishing
Another site developed to be administered by Joomla!. Blackfish Publishing is a magazine publishing company, which is enjoying the success of their first launch – Death Ray, a science fiction and fantasy title.
- See the site at www.blackfishpublishing.com
Digital Radio Now
Whilst not designed or built by MediaClash, this site used to become un-useable under heavy traffic. A hosting transfer, a wealth of optimisations and a page caching mechanism ensured this PHP site was useable over Christmas – the busiest period for digital radio sites. Particularly for digitalradionow.com, as the postcode checker (a service used to check available radio stations for a particular postcode) is used by the BBC, Digital One, and other commercial radio companies.
- See the site at www.digitalradionow.com
- Have a go with the postcode checker
web accessibility
Read about what we do to ensure our website and any website we create is accessible to as wide an audience as possible.
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