Portfolio
Triscuit – TV Commercial
About
Kraft Canada wanted something fun for their Triscuit Line, so they decided to let the fans pick how the next Triscuit TV Commercial would look, they decided to break up the TV Commercial in to sections and let fan’s vote on the best layout. There was also the side note of Fan’s submitting there favorite recipes.
Technical Details
This Facebook application was done 80% by me as in Front End and Back End Development, 20% by another Digital Agency. The back end was tied in with a previous Database they have for storing recipes, there was the process of submitting a recipe on the main landing page. The Database was simple for the votes, it would just store the vote, category and the Facebook id. The tools used were PHP, MYSQL, JQuery, HTML, CSS.
Mercedes-Benz Canada – Holiday Wishlist
About
Mercedes Benz Canada wanted to do something for all there fans for the holidays, so they decided to make a pop up book, where you can fill out a little form and let your friends know what you want for Christmas including which Benz you want the most.
Technical Details
The site was developed with my Custom PHP Framework, it did require a quick database for storing the information so your friends could see what you wanted for Christmas. The development tools used on this Facebook Application were PHP, JQuery, MYSQL and of course the Facebook API. The Popup Book was done by another developer in Flash.
Triscuit Mobile
About
Triscuit, who I have developed a few sites for, asked to have a new mobile site which would be built for the Mobile Cell Phones, and the IPad. Once mobile site was created that took a liquid layout to be able to scale down to an IPad Version, and Mobile Version but still keep all the JQuery, Images intact but would not overload the device at the same time. They wanted to show case recipes and flavors but wanted to use a scroll to showcase both main features of there products.
Technical Details
The site was developed with my Custom PHP Framework, it did not require a Database since the content they wanted was static anyways, so we loaded up the recipes, flavors in to an XML file, which would be displayed back on the page. The site was built in PHP, XML, CSS3, JQuery to build the nice slider, the JQuery work is custom and not some cheap plugin. If you click on the link above you can reduce your browser down to half and then to a quarter of the size to see how the site changes the layout, images and functionality on the fly.
Nestea – The Recruit
About
Nestea – The Recruit is for a Coca-Cola Brand Nestea, they wanted an outlet to have young people who are in certain university’s competing to be the next recruit at a chance to win a year’s worth of tuition money, who would ever say no to that. The goal here was to bring attention to the brand using Facebook, so it was asked of me to develop a Facebook Application for this project.
Technical Details
The site was built using my own custom PHP Framework, but the issue was the environment it was sitting on, did not support .htaccess files, so a lot of my SEO concepts in the Framework had to removed, loading classes and processing AJAX calls had to be changed as well. The site was developed using PHP, Oracle (which I created a custom database wrapper class for), CSS, JQuery, Youtube API and the Facebook API.
CAA The Game of Life – CAA Life-side Assistance Edition
About
CAA wanted something fun and cool, that would help make there brand seem more unique as well make consumers aware of there services. What better way to do it, then making a game based on CAA, so the idea was presented to make the CAA The Game of Life, where users can learn more about CAA product and services as well have the chance to win some free prizes for themselves.
Technical Details
The site was built in HTML, CSS, JQuery, PHP with a MYSQL back end, the actual game runs in Flash which communicates over a custom RESTFUL API built by me, which is also done by me in PHP, using my own custom PHP Framework. The Game API will determine the user’s spin, and determine the result of that spin based on which spot they will land on, if it a Fact, Win/Lose Money or Win a Prize. It only allows one grand prize entry per day, once that you have that entry you can not play till the next day, there are logging features in place to avoid hacking and tampering of any data. The Restful API works with an encryption of public / private keys to avoid any third party API calls to cheat as well.
Häagen-Dazs Canada TIFF Contest
About
Häagen-Dazs Canada wanted to do something fun for the Toronto International Film Festival, so what better way to engage users with there brand then with a contest that gave users the chance to get free tickets to the event. This contest worked in 3 rounds, each round had 10 tickets, a round could begin at any random day and time, so it required you to follow the company in order to know when the next round started. Each round consisted of 5 questions, you had to get all 5 questions correct to claim a ticket but getting one wrong meant you were done for the round and now had to wait for the next round.
Technical Details
The site did have a like gate page which required you to register before you could start answering the questions. Questions were loaded via Ajax, there was a Ajax countdown which let you know how many tickets were still left as the round started. The site was a Facebook only app, which was developed with PHP, MYSQL, CSS, HTML. I created everything for the project from a technical side which mean I did not do the creative work (like creating the layout graphics), since I think we all know now I am not an artist. This contest was developed and created in 3 days because I had a short turn around time on the project. It was little fun project I must say.
Häagen-Dazs Canada Polls This Or Dazs?
About
Häagen-Dazs Canada wanted to see what they liked better, so they wanted to create a poll where they compared 3 new favorite similar activities and would get the votes from users, on average about 2,000 people voted a week. This did not require any registration or login, it was just a simple open facebook app that could be accessed by anyone with a Facebook Account.
Technical Details
The site was simple, with a like gate page, and a poll which let you select A, B, C, it would return the percentage of results from other users. This was done in a simple HTML, CSS and PHP with a MYSQL database to store the results but no account information of the user was stored only the answers from the user.
Häagen-Dazs Canada AeroPlan Contest
About
Häagen-Dazs Canada wanted to encourage there brand with a contest, and what better way to engage users with there brand then a good old classic contest. They wanted to give away Aeroplan Miles so you can travel to places your heart desires, as well as other great giveaways in the contest. It was simple register and submit an entry to the contest by filling out a form.
Technical Details
This site required user registration and a slick front end, the site was on a PHP back end. The front end was doing using CSS, HTML, and JQuery. The PHP was done in a object based classes with a custom framework built by me. It keeps SEO in mind, it’s tied with the Facebook API to gather user information so you can share it with friends. The site has dual language support, english and french depending on the default language the user uses for Facebook.
Mercedes-Benz Canada
About
Benz wanted a place on facebook where fans could few there hot models of upcoming cars and get there details, so we created the Benz Facebook Fan Page, with just that information and some very cool wallpapers for people to download.
Technical Details
This site required user registration and a slick front end, the site was on a PHP back end. The front end was doing using CSS, HTML, and JQuery. The PHP was done in a object based classes with a custom framework built by me. It keeps SEO in mind, it’s tied with the Facebook API to gather user information so you can share it with friends. The site has dual language support, english and french depending on the default language the user uses for Facebook.
Triscuit Inspired By You
About
Triscuit wanted a place on facebook where fan’s could submit there favorite recipes to triscuit and share them with other fans. So the goal was to create a facebook application that would allow them to do just that. The Application lets your rate and review user submitted recipes, it’s also a contest based on who the recipe with the most likes that can win a prize in the end.
Technical Details
This site required user registration and a slick front end, the site was on a PHP back end using MYSQL as the database. The front end was doing using CSS, HTML, and JQuery. The PHP was done in a object based classes with a custom framework built by me. It keeps SEO in mind, it’s tied with the Facebook API to gather user information so you can share it with friends and refer each recipe your submit with your facebook. The site has dual language support, english and french depending on the default language the user uses for Facebook.
Häagen-Dazs Canada
About
Haagen-Daz is another amazing popular brand, and they wanted to spread the good word through facebook which contests and promotions, what better way to do this then there own Fan Page, recording amazing amount of Likes, this Like page has been a big success.
Technical Details
This is site require contest registration, facebook post like / pre like presentations, as well getting extra entries into there contests. Contests includes Aeroplan miles / points. The technical side of this required PHP, .Net, SQL Server, JQuery, CSS, HTML and of course the Facebook API. Both backend and frontend work was started and completed by me with a quick turnaround time.
Skinny Cow Canada
About
SkinnyCow is a brand from Nestle Foods, so to bring awareness to the product they asked to create a simple to start Facebook Like page.
Technical Details
This is a simple Facebook IFrame Like Page, my work on this page includes Front End Developement, which includes a little PHP, Facebook API, JQuery and CSS, go a head and like it!
Flashtag
About
Hendersonbaskohn, created a flashtag game based on QR Badge for the FITC convention. The goal here was to play tag, several tags where hidden around the building, bonus qrcodes were placed around the building. Everyone would have to have there own QRCode, and join the website using LinkedIn API. There was a winner everyday who would receive an IPad2.
Technical Details
This site was a simple but an effect layout, people could view on a desktop browser but could only login and use the QRCode’s on the mobile browsers only. The site was only one layout that was scaled down on the fly for mobile devices. The site was developed in PHP, MYSQL, JQuery and used the LinkedIn API.
Hendersonbaskohn.com
About
Henderson bas kohn is an award-winning advertising agency rooted in insight and fuelled by creative ideas, strategic precision, and measurable results.
Our world is connected and portable. Advertising is in motion. Communication requires action from media to mobile, social to sample, tablet to table. Because these are more than just channels, they’re the foundation of new creative thinking.
Technical Details
This site was a simple but an effect layout, the main page works on get all the henderson bas kohn third party information like Tweeter, Facebook, Youtube, Linkedin and WordPress Blog entries. This is done using JSON / AJAX requests which are parsed and displayed. It also has a WordPress Blog, with a custom Theme, it features several custom plugins made by me, one for LinkedIn, Categories, Tweeter Feed Display, Archive Breadcrumbs in the footer. This site also has a mobile CSS to better display on mobile devices, images attached.
Tim Hortons EveryCup
About
Everycup is Tim Hortons website that tracks and let’s users create and discuss there favorite moments with Tim Hortons, may it be having a nice warm coffee during the holidays or how they saved your from near death while on your way to work in the morning.
Technical Details
This site was built on an Symfony 1, by developers who no long exist, horrible development work, but the website it’s self works great. I supplied tech support for updates including the area’s of JQuery, PHP, MYSQL which included updates and bug fixes as well as adding new features.
Marketing Hall of Legends.ca
About
Marketing Hall of Legends (MHOL) is Canada’s top marketing and business executives provide nine-month mentoring relationships with senior marketers to help inspire them to become the leaders of tomorrow.
Technical Details
The goal of this site was to take the current site and convert it to a WordPress Site, the process included converting the current design into a WordPress Theme, include a JQuery drop down menu and special custom award rewards widget, and special nomination forms. Technology used WordPress, CSS, JQuery, PHP, MYSQL
KitKat.ca
About
Kitkat.ca is a Big Break promotion website, where you can claim product pins for rewards and contest entries, pins are found on outlined products as described on the website. Kitkat.ca is a Nestle Food Product Website, more future projects to come from Nestle Foods!
Technical Details
Kitkat.ca is developed using ASP.NET with a MSSQL database which contains all the product related PINS (correctly optimized for fast results), this project includes Facebook API Integration to spread, share and get more pins to have a chance to win more prizes. Technologies used to complete the project include HTML, Flash, CSS/CSS3, JQuery, Facebook API.
IABCanada.com
About
The Interactive Advertising Bureau of Canada , is the national voice and de facto thought leader of the Canadian Interactive marketing and advertising industry; and is a not-for-profit association representing Canada’s most well-known and respected Advertisers, Agencies, Media Companies, Service Associates, Educational Institutions and Government Associations.
Technical Details
IABCanada.com is designed on top of WordPress, with a custom theme, with a JQuery Big Daddy, this site has a custom plugin to manage registered users, company profiles, and job postings. A few other plugins created for this project are a newsletter registration widget, a event registration widget. Technologies used, WordPress, JQuery, CSS, HTML, Ajax, MYSQL and PHP all combined to create IABCanada.com
Comixnerd.com
About
ComixNerd will be an online open source e-cart software plugin. Now what makes this project different, it’s only for Comicbook shops. It will be a free system. The system will have a Free Download Preview System which will let you download all the contents from the current months Preview Magazine (we do this buy downloading everything from Diamond, this process only takes 10 minutes). You will get a full description of the product, with images and multiple thumbnails, release dates, who the writer, designer, and artist is. An amazing SEO system recently, that comparable to WordPress’s SEO system. As well an online based comic subscription system with internal messaging system, customer profiles, customers can interact with one each other. This is cart is as well theme based, so create your own theme and upload it and activate it, kind of like how WordPress does it. It comes with a custom Admin Tool, which will let you manage your customers, subscriptions, update your products directly from Diamond (Previews), upload your invoices to add the new incoming content, or manually add new products, process payments with Paypal Gateway, Authorize.net, PSI Gate, Google Checkout, Facebook Coin (Use Facebook To Sell Comics, And Collect Payment). Create multiple categories (Comics, Graphic Novels, CGC, Manga, Magazines, Suppies, the list can go on), create custom pages (About Us, Subscription Information etc). Manage your subscription members, customers, news letters, create special deals, sales and so much to come!
Technical Details
Comixnerd is built using MYSQL, PHP, AJAX, HTML5, XML, CSS3, Symphony CMS, JQuery as it’s main Javascript Framework. Twitter, Buzz, Facebook are integrated for sharing and logging, registering new users, multiple themes, out the box solution for creating an online comic e-cart!
TheNerdStop.com
About
TheNerdStop is online based comic book blogging website dealing with provided news, reviews and in depth columns. It also serves as online resource area for upcoming products and provided online retailer services and customer services for those retailers. Retailers have the method of finding new customers online through customers online subscription tracking. All product information are provided by Diamond Comics, and fully integrated into the system with images that belong to those products. Website is under development still and these features will increase. The site is also a new social network for collectors and retailers, it encourages a heavy use of Facebook and Twitter to expand it’s reach as a web app and for retailers.
Technical Details
Thenerdstop is built using PHP, MYSQL, Flash, AS3, XML, CSS, HTML, it also uses Prototype as a main AJAX framework, Twitter, Facebook are added and a facebook application is under development. The CMS system is custom built, so is the blogging software (WordPress is not used), the site has it’s own admin tools for the owners of the site. Currently in development.
ICoke.ca
About
ICoke is an online points tracking system where you can take your point codes from Coke related products and enter them into the online system in order to enroll your self in to contents, or purchase / win products online. Help out by donating your points to charities or sending some to a friend as a gift, Coke has an amazing catalog of prizes and things to spend your hard earned points on.
Technical Details
Responsibility includes developing the backend system (J2EE), creation of a custom Framework (Tiles, Sitemesh, Spring Web Flow, Weblogic), other 3rd party tools. CMS intergration, as well layout work including design, html, and css work.
MashupArts.com
About
MashupArts is an online video ecard web based application which deals with sending out online cards in the form of videos which can be played anywhere online. They incorporate videos from Youtube, MP3, Photo and so many online social networks and web based photo software. These include and are not limited to Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, Youtube, Google, Pisca, Flicker, Creative Commons and Picnik.
Technical Details
I serve as a software / web / application developer for MashupArts, the online application is built in HTML, CSS, Javascript / AJAX, Flash/AS3. It consists of many frameworks like Prototype, JQuery, Prototype-UI, these frameworks were used for light boxes, drag and dropping, and many of the loading features needed to avoid page refreshes. There are countless API’s involved in the site, from Flicker, Facebook, Pisca and more to come, these API’s were mostly used for adding your photos from many other venues. I also created the Facebook Application that MashupArts uses today. Picnik was incorporated to make it possible to create and edit your photos that would be used in the card. The rest of the site was uses PHP, MYSQL, and is heavily object oriented in it’s function.
SukhGill.ca
About
This personal blog was created in a way to stay focused and up to date with news and trends around the Internet. The site was also a introduction to understand the WordPress CMS system more in depth. I personally use this site as an outlet for the things that are on my mind, it’s a form of expression like many people personal blogs all over the Internet. The blog is a custom design in a layout stand point and will constantly keep changing and updating when and if I have the time to come up with new designs for the website.
Technical Details
The site uses WordPress and is always kept update as WordPress constantly releases new version of there number one blogging software. The layout and design is a custom piece of word created using Adobe Photoshop, CSS, HTML. I have taken the time to develop customer plugins for the site integrating Facebook, Twitter to spread my posts around the Internet, as well as using Bitly to shorten urls for the social networks. Light Box 2 is used as photo viewer to make the layout look more fresh and clean.
Expertcomics.com / IComic.ca
About
Original the site was named IComic.ca it was renamed on sale of the site in July 2009. It was my personal business I created 4 years ago to help fund my way through university. Originally starting out on EBay, it grew in sales soon requiring it’s own online e-commerce based website. It sold a wide range of products from comic books, toys, statues and graphic novels. The main service provided on the website was an online based subscription service where customers could create and track there comic book subscriptions with ease.
Technical Details
The site was developed in PHP with the use of MYSQL as a means to store information, it contained it’s own online admin console to add products and manage the website. It had Paypal, PSIGate Credit Card processing integrated for payment handling. It was fully SSL encrypted, as well SEO friendly, blogging system and detailed product descriptions with easy searching capabilities. The layout also was created using CSS/HTML, Flash/AS3 and also had an RSS feed system for customers to receive the latest product updates.
PacificControls.net
About
Pacific Control Systems company providing total automation solutions globally. Headquartered in Dubai, Pacific Controls has been involved in successfully implementing integrated automation solutions in the Government and Private sectors. This site was built in collaboration with a follow designer one of my earlier pieces of work.
Technical Details
Pacific Control System design was created with the use of PHP, MYSQL, Flash and Action Script 3, HTML, CSS / XHTML. I assisted as programmer and not as a graphic artist in anyway as it is not my strong suit. Not much can be recalled since this was my earlier pieces of work.
