A Little Piece of Mind  0

Posted by John to Project Launches on August 29th, 2008  

A Little Piece of Mind is a project curated by Marque to raise money for Shelter (UK) & The Bowery Mission (US)
A Little Piece of Mind homepage

A Little Piece of Mind homepage

The site is is made up of one page containing many smaller boxes (or "patches") of content. Clicking on a patch brings it to the foreground. As the project grows & develops, more patches of text, images, etc. will be added.

Currently, the site has several patches explaining the project, a form to add yourself to the project mailing list, and a shadowbox form for submitting work to the project. To add a touch of dynamism to an otherwise static page, the background fades in/out three different patterns.

The javascript heavy-lifting is done using jQuery & Shadowbox, while the page generation and forms use PHP & MySQL.

Lee Mawdsley  0

Posted by John to Project Launches on August 28th, 2008  

Lee Mawdsley is a freelance photographer based in London. Marque launched his new site today.

Its previous incarnation had a few significant usability issues. Firstly, the entire site (and all the content) was stored in a swf. Secondly, it opened in a tiny 710 x 567px pop up window (full size screen shot).

So, Lee needed a clean, image-rich space to display his photography to prospective clients. It had to have large images that could be dragged onto a viewer's desktop. He also wanted visitors to be able to browse through collections using the full screen (as opposed to the full browser window). The final requirement was a robust, yet easy to use content management system to keep his site up to date.

Screenshot of the new homepage

The new homepage

Given the site's simple, portfolio structure, we decided to use Indexhibit as the CMS. It didn't take very long to write a few plug-ins to customize look and feel of homepage & gallery pages. There was also a wee bit of tweaking to the config files, but that was to be expected. To address the browse-images-in-full-screen-mode issue we used Marque's very own SWF Lightbox. All of the javascript animation was taken care of by script.aculo.us.

Screenshot of SWF Lightbox in action.

Screenshot of SWF Lightbox in action.

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