When developing the APSystems website the client wanted the banner image to zoom into focus when the page loads. Firstly I was thinking of doing it in Flash, my Flash skills are pretty rusty so I came up with a method of doing it via jQuery's animate effect.

The banner is actually two parts, the main image and an overlay logo and text that is fixed in place. The overlay image is a transparent png so I used the Drupal PNG fix Module to get transparency working in IE. The main image dimensions are larger then the area for the banner so the quality is still good when zooming.

One of the many things taken for granted when working with Drupal is that ability to have dynamic layouts. Different layouts for different pages, based on the blocks assigned to regions for the page.

Variables are set during page construction that can tell you how many columns are required. Which in combination with the page.tpl.php and your stylesheet can provide any number of layouts.

Brisbane.tv is the first of many local link directories to be released with the .tv top level domain. The site contains close to 7000 categorised links and provides access to the top 50 links of each category in under 3 clicks.
My role was importing the existing database content into Drupal's node and taxonomy system, incorporating OpenX and developing the theme for Drupal.

I worked at SpeakOut for about three years, during that time we were to busy with other projects to finish off our own site. So I was very happy to have the SpeakOut website as one of my first freelance projects. SpeakOut and I continue to have a strong working arrangement.

The Engineers Without Borders Australia Challenge (EWB Challenge) is a national design program for first-year university students. Students work in teams to develop conceptual designs for sustainable development that contribute towards real international development projects.

The EWB Challenge Cambodia is a subsite of EWB. Designed by SpeakOut, my role was to implement the design for the new Cambodian challenge content while keeping the 2007 Challenge theme for existing content. It's a beautiful design and I am looking forward to seeing where the challenge will take them next year.