Intro
Intro to this Playground
Check some of my creations both finished and unfinished, as well as some other projects I am involved in.
Click the images above to have a quick preview and the big image to go to the site itself or demo.
2 dimensional menu
(X)HTML / Flash / AS2 / javascript
Tired of 1 dimensional menus ? Me too. So, I tried to use 2 dimensions in a hierarchical menu. Customizeable by (x)(h)tml and SEO friendly.
Check it out on my chaotic personal web site.
Features:
- Customizable (via (X)HTML)
- SEO-enabled
- Dynamic menu
Flash & SEO
SEO is possible in Flash!
(X)HTML / Flash / AS2 or AS3 / SEO
A lot of people will disagree and say this is impossible, but good SEO is possible in Flash without double or redundant copying of content.
I have found a way to do this, and it is integrated in this site too.
Features:
- SEO-enabled Flash
- Jump to a page inside Flash movie
- Searchengine indexes inside Flash pages
- External content loading
- All content as well in Flash as in html, though only Flash visible for visitors
Meditation help
(X)HTML / Flash / AS2
A very simple tool with minimal visuals, that can guide you through your meditation.
It times the different phases of the meditation you chose out of the available selection. A bell rings to announce a new phase. You can choose to have a voice guiding you through (for the beginner) or only having the bell sound. In addition it is even possible to add your own meditation.
Features:
- Customizable via external loading of HTML
- Audio(streaming)
Demonstrating some styles on an artist name.
Flash
The purpose was to find a suitable design for displaying a customer's artist name.
World of Warcraft guild site
CMS (Joomla) / CSS
Via the well know Joomla CMS (Content Management System), I very quickly and cheaply set up a site for a guild in the online game World of Warcraft.
Features:
- CMS (Content management): Joomla // anyone may add searchable content, articles, contacts and links
- Selfmade template (style)
- Searchengine indexes inside Flash pages
- Add-ons / CMS-features:
- User / article-rating
- Polls
- News / Syndicates / RSS / Atom
- Forum
- Registered users / Login
Open source library for comparing stuff
php / javascript / CSS
I am making an open source library or functions to facilitate comparing objects in tables. Read more about it on this
Open Source site.
Features:
- Object, compare, feature-weight, .. database
- Javascript ordering (without refreshing the page)
- Total graphics
- Hoover-tooltips
- More to come..
Overlay for Google Earth
XML / php / cartographic coordinates
Dynamically generated overlay for Google Earth of the City of Ghent. It is a much more higher resolution than the default Google Earth satellite images.
Thanks to the City of Ghent for providing the arial photos.
Fooling around with colors
Flash / AS2
Some fooling around with colors.
This is a start of creating a user interface for manipulating the colors of an image in all possible ways.
Have a look, this may be fun!
Documentary Presentation
Flash / AS2 / Science / XML
I have always been fascinated by electromagnetic waves. Especially in the period that I studied for my Masters in Science.
The Flash movie displays the full EM spectrum and divides it in the main categories with some explanations, special frequencies, a wavelength-frequency conversion tool, ...
It features some automised view of reflection, attenuation etc.
The site uses several features like some other projects above.
The new version allows you to choose your own frequencies, attenuations and others to view by providing your own XML-files
The real cool thing about it is that you can customize everything.
Features:
- Customizable via external loading of XML
- Zoom
- Some educational material
- Customizable allocation tables, application tables (existing: Europe ECA, "Some well known" ITU)
- Customizable diagrams or graphs such as attenuations, reflections, black bodies, .. (existing: atmospheric attenuation, black body of the sun in space and on earth, theoretical black bodies
- Frequency flags (existing: some well known frequencies)
- Emission lines (existing: hydrogen and oxygen; theoretic and observed)
- Frequency wavelength photon energy converter/calculator
Some photos & cliparts
Some photos & cliparts
A small collection of pictures I collected in recent years.
CD-ROM Intro for ETS CD
XML / Flash / AS2
Just some basic click and play presentation that autoplays from the ETS 3 CD-ROM. It contains some technical information, software setups and instructions.
Features:
- External content loading (links, images, setups, installation instructions, readmes, trouble shooter etc.
- Search food
- Localization / Multi-language
- Software product and KNX-product catalogue
- Some minor animation
- Nice scrollbar
Due to some internal affairs this project was eventually not chosen for the CD release.
Long Flash Christmas card with music
Flash / AS2 / XML / CSS
Just have a look. But please be patient! The images and music will start only after about 10 seconds.
Example of a simple button with elastic effect
Flash
Example of a simple button with elastic effect
Height of sun in the sky
Flash / AS2
Short demonstration of how high the sun stands in each part of the world
Online multiplayer game for demonstrating TPM (Total Production Management)
XML / Flash / php / server protocols & daemon
Online multiplayer game for demonstrating TPM (Total Production Management) (Clients + server).
A self-made server takes care of the communications between max. 5 Flash clients. Each client has a seperate view of the game and its user doesn't know what happens on the other parts/clients. Inbetween the turns, the colleagues have limited time to talk and plan upon the next level of the game (which of course becomes harder simultanously). Without efficient communication and responsibility at each client, the end score will be rather low (unless someone already played the game).
For the moment I haven't had the time to setup a demo (server) on my web yet.
Features:
- Server-client communication
- Multiplayer
- Some animation
- Keyboard and mouse controls
This project was never finished because of the take-over of Sidmar by Arcelor and the following change of directives, amongst others cutting in budgets. Nevertheless, this was a very exciting project.
Analyze what you eat
mysql / Flash / AS2 / php
Search for food items or make a menu and have it analysed.
This site accesses the USDA database of nutrient reference that I have made more accessible into mysql. Flash takes the UI by displaying how much proteins, vitamins, minerals, trace elements, carbohydrates, fat (a.o. cholesterol) your food contains (as a percentage of your daily requirements). For each group a detailed view with more specific nutrients is also displayed.
This project is rather paused in development. It is for sale and we would like to develop it further into a good health tool.
A nice opportunity for those who want to provide their customers with a professional, yet nice tool for health and nutrition information.
Features:
- Complete food database
- Search food
- Make menus
- Displaying nutritional values in graphically in bars or numbers
Flash site to make recipes/print recipes in RecipeML
Flash / AS2 / XML / CSS
Simple recipe site, testing out Flash local saves (local objects) and a recipe XML standard.