These are some of the flash effects that I have developed. (plug-in required)

Spotlight - a moving spotlight lights up object and text.

Ghosted Text - text is partially revealed by a ghosting effect.

Pop-up text panel - a text panel pops up to show scrolling text controlled by arrows.

Moving Target - a target follows the mouse around the screen.

Lens Flare - a lens flare acts as a button in conjunction with invisible buttons and a movie clip.

Lights - special lighting effects.

Flash Opening - a flash of light onscreen.

This site, of course, is the one you are currently viewing. Its purpose is to demonstrate web design skills in a number of different areas while still maintaining a sense of continuity across the site. This was accomplished through the repetition of the logo in a similar position on all of the pages, using a constant visual style throughout and by incorporating the iconic letter "K" into the design of each of the distinct pages.

Great care was taken to ensure that each of the pages, while taking advantage of HTML 4.0 features, would degrade gracefully in 3.0 browsers. The page shown below illustrates this perfectly. The image on the left shows how one of the site's pages appears in a 4.0 browser, while the image on the right shows how the exact same page looks in a 3.0 browser (Netscape was used for this example). While enhanced in the more recent browser, it remains accessible to the older software. This was accomplished using javascript to control the page layout depending on the browser being used to view it. This could have been more easiliy accomplished using SSI, which is unfortunately not available on the server which hosts this site, however this example also serves to demonstrate my javascript profeciency

If you are using a 4.0 browser you may click on the images above to compare the way the pages are rendered.

"Following a Dream"/"A la poursuite d'un rêve" was a web-enabled CD-ROM project which was done as part of a pilot project sponsored by Claridge (owned by the Bronfman foundation) and Bombardier Inc. The project was intended to be a learning tool aimed at sixth grade students, with the goal of introducing the students to Canadian art from the Claridge collection and artifacts from the Bombardier museum. The interface was created in Director and placed on a CD to provide quick local access. The CD included references to a corresponding website for the dynamic aspects of the project, including a database of collected objects and images. In addition to various other tasks, I was solely responsible for the creation of the Journalism Activity module (pictured below). It was designed to provide a simple and straightforward interface that would be easy to use and that would appeal to sixth-graders. You may view the module as a Shockwave movie by selecting either of the images below, but please note that it is a large file (676 K) because it was designed for distribution on a CD-ROM, not over the Internet.

As this is meant simply as a demonstration of work I have done, the French version of the module and the links to the rest of the CD have been disabled for practical reasons. You will need the Shockwave plug-in to view this.

As Editor-in-Chief of the Phoenix newspaper, I practiced traditional print design within the constraints of tight deadlines and newsprint. Although the visual style of the newspaper had already been defined before my arrival, I took this as an opportunity to experiment with different variations on a theme. Our goal was to remain fresh and interesting without compromising the paper's sense of identity.