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little bits of mischief website

23.04.2009 (2:25 pm) – Filed under: portfolio

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A simple 5 page site built for music composition, sound design and music searches company 'little bits of mischief'. The site is built in php / XHTML and features Flash audio and video players. It's always a pleasure for me to build simple, classic designed sites. I particularly like the red, white, blue colour scheme in this design.

Check it out: www.littlebitsofmischief.com

Video Gallery - Neil Stewart / Fella Pictures

21.04.2009 (3:41 pm) – Filed under: development, portfolio

This week I have been working on improving the 'Moving Image' section of photoneil.com. When I first built the site (designed and built by 76 Creative) the Moving Image page featured Neil's video showreel, since then video has become a more prominent aspect of his work so I have created a video gallery page for the site, allowing him to showcase a range of his video work under different categories.

As this video gallery uses seperate pages for the video list and the player itself I programmed it in PHP using the Longtail / JW Player to play the flv videos. For more information about encoding video for Flash as flv see my article: Encoding FLV

The video gallery also offers the option to download higher quality Quicktime Movies of each video. I encoded the quicktimes using the mpeg-4 codec and reducing the frame size slightly to allow for higher picture and sound quality while keeping the filesizes reasonable for a download.

Check it out: www.photoneil.com/movingimage.php

Freaks On Snow - Austria

27.01.2009 (10:34 pm) – Filed under: video


The Freaks on Snow are Eurpope's N° 1 Ski and Snowboard Showteam. This video was taken on a Canon digital Camera in Zell Am See in Austria. Check out their cunning stunts!