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Whitman Campus Tour
Summer 1997
I
built this site at the behest of the office of admission, the summer
after my freshman year. This is actually the second version of it. The
first one was an ugly, frames-driven page with nothing but a big map
and some ugly pictures. The ugly pictures are still there in some places,
but only because I was asked to use pictures I was given. Some of those
pictures were taken professionally, and some of them were not.
Skills, Technologies, Etc.
HTML
My Role:
Lead Developer, Lead Designer
Results:
The unfortunate reality of this site is that NONE of it is automated. It would seem like the perfect opportunity to use some sort of script to format each page. At the time, I couldn't code my way out of a paper bag, so I did it all by hand. I've been meaning to go in and just automate the whole thing, but I don't have the time, what, with college and all.
I did begin work on a CGI based version of the tour my Senior year (in the interest both of a better design and improved scalability), but the admission department was uninterested and it was never completed. Plans are underway to build an entirely new version in Flash, and provide a backend for it as well. My gift to the college, if I ever finish it.
Note: It looks like they've dumped my tour finally and replaced it with something else, including the spiffy flash-ish version I worked on as a senior. Drawing a map of the campus in Illustrator was not fun, let me tell ya...