Barklund.org » Play http://www.barklund.org/blog work smarter when building current web trends Wed, 26 May 2010 09:49:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Doing a large corporate website the interesting way http://www.barklund.org/blog/2007/08/14/doing-a-large-corporate-website-the-interesting-way/ http://www.barklund.org/blog/2007/08/14/doing-a-large-corporate-website-the-interesting-way/#comments Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:32:41 +0000 Barklund http://www.barklund.org/blog/2007/08/14/doing-a-large-corporate-website-the-interesting-way/
  • Password-friendly Website Certificate – January 2010 Ideas
    • ]]>     Today we launched a new website for one of the major Danish mortgage provider, Totalkredit. They are known by all Danes due to their tv-ads (produced by TBWA\Copenhagen), that everyone either hates or loves. This is a very big client, and thus they require a very big website. But as they are for the people and tries to communicate directly with the common man, the website need not be corporate, but must be rich with content, easy to use and with many features that will create returning visitors.

    Well, all this I did not have much to do with, that concerns the concept department. But concretising, technically verifying and realizing this concept is very much my job. The project has taken many months but it is now finally complete. Or well, such is never complete, but the first version has been launched at least. And this site is (technically) amazing if I should describe it. The amount of JavaScript used is huge and much of it uses MochiKit heavily. The JavaScript is used to enliven the page in a very interesting way.

    The whole page works without JavaScript in the classical fashion (clicking links, reloading the whole page with the new page), but with JavaScript enabled, all links are caught and handle via Ajax instead. This technique was introduced to me by Jeremy Keith and his somewhat cute term Hijax. In order to do this, but not combine markup with content, large portions of the HTML (very large in fact) are built in JavaScript. For this need MochiKit.DOM is really handy.

    Other features of the site, that makes this a very satisfying job to have completed:

    • It is of course search engine optimized (Hijax preserves this)
    • It uses a very concise, readable markup and works as mentioned without JavaScript (the properties of Progressive Enhancement)
    • The URL is modified on every major page change using fragments in order to allow deep-linking and bookmarking (this is partly self-developed, partly borrowed from SWFAddress)
    • And given the above, that “back” and “forward” buttons of the browser works (unlike many other full-Ajax websites)
    • The site includes Google Maps (you can’t go wrong with that!)
    • The site is tested and optimized for Internet Explorer 6 and 7 as well as Firefox 2 (and friends).

    Enough talking, here is the site: http://www.totalkredit.dk – “unfortunately” most of the site is in Danish except for a small investor-part.

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  • Open Data – January 2010 Ideas
    • ]]>     We are always hiring bright minds and now more than ever. Thus I wanted to post this plea from my CEO:

    Company: TBWA\PLAY
Job Title: Everything digital
Description:

With TBWA\PLAY being one of the leading Scandinavian digital cross-over agencies
we are further securing our positioning at the absolute top.

We are extremely proud of our high-end, effective and award-winning work. And
we are even more proud of our people who make it all happen.

To help us create more top-notch solutions for our excellent list of excellent
clients we are looking for the best and brightest talent around - including:

. Flash-designers & Developers
. Senior account managers
. Digital planners
. Copy writers
. Interactive Art Directors
. Web developers / System architects

Check out if any of this is up your alley and give us a shout.

We offer a wild, creative, collaborative and vibrant work-environment. And your
future 40 colleagues are solely talented and highly inspirational people with
nationalities ranging anywhere between Portuguese and Russian.

Add to this our unique agency culture, solid personal/professional development
opportunities and TBWA\ as the best agency network worldwide (even AdWeek
agrees!) and you are betting on a winner.

Send us a mail with your motivation & CV to jobs@tbwa-play.com, or give
Business Director Anne-Sofie Ene Wichmann a call at (+45) 70 27 22 27.

As you are probably already in a good position, we will of course treat all
enquiries with full confidentiality and discretion. Let's have a chat with no
strings attached!

We are looking forward to hearing from you!

    So please, if you feel like being my new colleague, do one of the above, comment here or email me personally if you feel like learning more about the positions. For all technical job positions, I sit in on first interviews, so I will see you around, I guess. :)

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    ]]>     http://www.barklund.org/blog/2007/04/23/looking-for-a-job/feed/ 2     The Beach is the best http://www.barklund.org/blog/2006/12/07/the-beach-is-the-best/ http://www.barklund.org/blog/2006/12/07/the-beach-is-the-best/#comments Thu, 07 Dec 2006 11:06:58 +0000 Barklund http://www.barklund.org/blog/2006/12/07/the-beach-is-the-best/ Not Leo’s silly movie, but Flash on the Beach 2006.

    I got many interesting contacts, talked to many interesting people and in particular told Branden Hall, that his ancient Flash 5 add-ons (including string.as) is still in use in some of our old Flash 5 projects still being updated.

    And the whole thing got me started on using ActionScript 3. I will post a guide to getting started with ActionScript 3 tools in FlashDevelop using FlexUnit for Unit testing. :)

    Besides, I didn’t just go to Brighton for Flash on the Beach. Actually I went with my company, TBWA\Play, to London Thursday for a BrainCamp at TBWA\London’s offices. And then we had the whole weekend in London me and my two colleagues (Morten Reinholdt and Henrik Hahn), where we attended the very classy night club, Mahiki, which was great fun.

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