Latest Project Release: Make Magazine's Elements of Humanity

My friends at Fake-up hired me on this latest project. This has probably been the most complicated site I have done up-to-date. Here is a break down and some slide shows of elementsofhumanity.com. Fake-up did a great job on the art direction while my focus was on the technology.

Technology & API Services

Elements of Humanity has a robust Content Management System that facilitates user driven data as well as overall site media essentials.

We built the CMS with Django framework. The Flash and iPhone web app and dynamic banners pull data via Adobe ActionScript Messaging Format - AMF. This approached helped us seamlessly integrate all platforms to a central data server.

Highlighted technologies:

Back-end Content Management System (Django/Python)
Send-to-Friend
Twitter API
User comment and iLike ranking

Front-end (ActionScript 3.0, jQuery, CSS, xHTML)
Utilized Flash Cookies for unique user session handling
Built a video player light for social networking outlets such as Facebook

All content served via CDN for optimal user experience.

SEO, Metrics & AD Services

The site heavily implements Google Analytics via their GA Flash and JavaScript API. Make can easily track all user interaction, including the Apple iPhone Web Application version. Elements of Humanity has dynamic deep linking which facilitates SEO compliances with Flash content.

Dynamic Banner:
An important aspect to Elements of Humanity’s dynamic banner was to feature selective Experts via an Ad Served banner. By creating a banner that can feed data from the CMS - We were able to successfully accomplish this.

Technical Highlights:
Google Analytics
Gigya
SWFAddress Deep-Linking
Dynamic Banner w/ ClickTags

Robust Flash site with robust data-driven content

iPhone web application; Video enabled

CMS built with Django framework

Dynamic banner served by advertisement servers

Joined Forces

Those who don't know - I joined forces with NYC mates, Fake-Up as Director of Technology: http://fake-up.net

If you have small scale projects, I'm still available for freelance work.

I will use this blog to post latest projects. If you would like to see technology specific posts by me, please go to http://fake-up.net/blog

Anthony Cintron

Web site Launched: rebeccaminkoffstore.com

I'm proud to announce my latest project release, rebeccaminkoffstore.com. This site was developed with Django, jQuery and pure CSS. The site is feature crazy: Gift Certificates, Product Managing, Customer Order Tracking, Customer Purchase History. Please go to the site and check it out.

Web site Launched: creativekm.com

Finished micro-portfolio site for L.A. graphic designer Kyle Marvin. The site was constructed using jQuery, CSS and HTML. You may check the site out at creativekm.com .

14 Tips for Safari 4 Beta

Here is a blog post on useful Safari 4 Beta tips:

http://www.macosxtips.co.uk/index_files/12-tips-for-safari-4-beta.html

Project Launched: Metro Loft Management NYC

Another site launched this week. Welcome to metroloftnyc.com where elegance meets downtown NYC. It was most enjoyable to work on this. All done within the Flash IDE and a bit of animation scripting. The Metro Loft was beautifully designed by my wife, Trina Elstner Cintron.

Project Launched: unbundled - a creative company

The former chairman of Leon Burnett hired me to develop a small simple site for her portfolio. I was honored and very excited to do such a task. Here I present to you unbundledcreative.com

This site was entirely done via AS3 using the Flash Player 10 API. The work section is not done in Papervision, it was all FP10. I'm glad to launch this elegant simplistically clean site. Enjoy all the video spots they have to offer, most of them are classics.