Linehan’s Design, a site for the kitchen and furniture designers and manufacturers in Ireland has just been launched. The site combines some slick flash with javascript from script.aculo.us.

Have a look here:
http://www.linehansdesign.com

The It’s your choice! site has been completely overhauled, with extensive backend and front end changes. The aim of the site from a design and development point of view is to enable a simple pathway to getting or giving information.

I’ve achieved this by having a punchy graphical homepage with the importance of each section being denoted by its positioning and colouration. The rest of the site has a simple and elegant format, whose primary aim is to enable the delivery of information.

The “sharing information” area and “directory” both use a custom php / mysql CMS systems. The “sharing information” area enables an administrator to create and edit questionnaires, and gives a great degree of freedom in their structure. There is also a facility for testing questionnionaires without making them live. The information from the questionnaires is automatically outputted graphically in the get information area as bar graphs and pie charts. The graphs are produced using the live database and jpgraph to produce png graph images. The give information area uses a session based log in system to store each users information and keep it secure.

AJAX - fantastic, i’ve just added my first bit of it at alistairmcclymont.com. Its a database linked slideshow for my portfolio - the beauty of AJAX is that it all happens on the page - so smooth animated effects are possible. On top of that this script gets over the problem of the URL not changing, and so hampering bookmarking of pages (the script adds a little number onto the end of the URL - and doesn’t get in the way of the php which is doing the same thing). Check out the slideshow here.

Its all based on the script from this guy Max Kiesler. I just slapped a bit of php and mySQL onto it. I might get around to posting it if anyone’s interested

artfo.com is a new website i’m developing. The problem I have leaving the Royal College of Art is that its hard to keep that community going strong. At the Royal College you see your collegues every day and talk about exhibitions and competition etc, so it’s easy to keep track.

So i’ve made artfo.com as a surrogate for the art school. To begin with its just a blog, but it will grow into an entire environment for promoting and discussing art.