Going forward here at Brewery Lane we will be picking out the best of the web ( in our opinion ) each month. To show what's happening on the web and what we like at the moment.
This month our pick of the web is The Cheese & Burger Society. This site was put together for The Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board to promote their range of American cheese in the most American way possible, on a burger!
The site is built in Flash and uses a roller deck interface design, with each card within the roller deck showcasing a different cheeseburger. Each burger is displayed lovingly and information on which Wisconsin cheese is used and how to make your own version of the burger is available. Also each burger is given its own voiced introduction, giving a sense of reverence to each of the mouth-watering burgers.
The site has a wonderful vintage style and you can sense how much thought has gone into its build.
The Cheese & Burger Society is also building a great following on Facebook with over 60,000 friends, me being one of them.
The main reason I've selected this site really is that it brings together two of my favourite things, cheese and burgers, enough said really.
A new project has been added to the Brewery Lane bow. With intercentive we developed a new platform called 'Oyster' for Microsoft Dynamics. With this platform clients can pick and choose from a number of tools from online voting to forums and asset management. For more information check out 'Brewery Works'...
As an avid football fan the start of a new football season is a date that is always marked down in big red letters in the diary. Though for many the start of the football season starts on the 15th of august, though for us true football fans it was the 8th, with the start of the Football League and Championship.
Can my team the mighty O’s make it higher than 14th in League One this season, or will it be another season of stress and disappointment, that us Leyton Orient supports have come to live with?
Well so far so good this season, with 1 game down and 3 points on the board, with a great away win at Bristol Rovers; see the match report here. This was then followed up with a win in The League Cup over Colchester; see the match report here.
I know its early days but can we go on from this and not have to worry about relegation for at least one season? Who knows, but I hope so.
As you maybe able to see around my site, there are a number of plus and minus symbols scattered about. This little links enable you to show or hide a page item, such as a main article in the left hand column or a case study in the right hand column.
This little tick is simple to do with just a little bit of jquery and here’s how its done:
$(function() {Count= 3;ShowItems();$("#add-acc").click(function(){Count = Count + 1;ShowItems();});$("#remove-acc").click(function(){Count = Count - 1;ShowItems();});});This first function sets how many items are to be shown when the page
loads with variable Count then displays them with function
ShowItems()
Also within this fuction are the two click events for showing and removing
an item. Each either adding or subracting 1 from the variable Count.
function ShowItems() {if (Count > $("#accordian .acc-header").size()) { Count =
$("#accordian .acc-header").size() };$("#accordian .acc-header:lt(" + Count + ")").slideDown("slow");$("#accordian .acc-header:gt(" + (Count - 1) + ")").slideUp("slow");if (Count == 1) {$("#remove-acc").hide();}if (Count != 1) {$("#remove-acc").show();}if (Count == $("#accordian .acc-header").size()) {$("#add-acc").hide();}if (Count != $("#accordian .acc-header").size()) {$("#add-acc").show();}}This function ShowItems() does all the work and uses the
jquery effects slideDown and slideUp. The
function also checks the variable Count against how many
items are being displayed.
Welcome to Brewery Lane, my names is Adam Akers and I'm a web developer and designer and have decided it's about time that I had my own outlet on the web, well why not, everybody else does.
Here at Brewery Lane I hope to showcase some of the work that I have been involved with and also some of the interesting things that I have found out long the way in the world of web design and development.
However, hopefully this site won't just be a haven of web geekness and coding excitement. I also hope to have other interesting tit-bits which I'd like to share with you. There will be links out to sites that have caught my attention in 'Brewery Tipples' and also you'll be able keep up with my 'twitterings' in 'Brewery Twitters'.
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Welcome to Brewery Lane, my name is Adam Akers and I'm a web developer and designer and here is my site.
If you like what you see and are interested in any of my work, contact me here.
Here is a selection of the projects I have been involved in. I hope that you find some of these interesting enough to get in contact with here.
We wanted to create a CRM Community within the Central Eastern European (CEE) sector for Microsoft Dynamics. We wanted the Partners to interact with one another and with the Microsoft Dynamics Head Office.
Here at intercentive we created a new platform called ‘Oyster’ that allows us to make tailor-made site for clients with interchangeable pieces. These range from Forums, Surveys, Training, Document Library and Search facility, there is also an Incentive Programme, which can also be crated to suit the clients needs.
The site was developed with CSS, xhtml, jquery and asp.net technologies.
This was a great site to get involved with. The Viva Las Vegas programmed for Carphone Warehouse was a sales incentive programmed for all Carphone Warehouse stores. It tracked store and individual performance over a set period.
The site included a number of interactive features of users to win prizes and other incentive based items. These features included a number of Las Vegas themed games, Roulette, Poker and a Fruit Machine. There was also an additional online quiz for users to take.
The site was developed with CSS html JavaScript and asp.net technologies.
The VW Momentum programme was sales based incentive for the sale of car accessories be VW dealers.
The site was designed to allow user to register as part of a team, each dealer had a have certain percentage of members registered within their team to allow them to take part within the programme.
The site worked on a league base structure, with prizes being presented based on positions with the league. However certain criteria had to be met, such has all team members completing a monthly quiz. This quiz would be based on car accessories sold be the dealers.
The site was developed with CSS html Mootools and asp.net technologies.
For this programme, the aim was to create a site that would develop Volkswagen TPS Group staff, through incentive & recognition programmes and training.
The site had a range of tacticals running within it, from incentives for team to win days out to programmes that would last a full financial year.
Each of this tacticals would have their own section with details of the tactical itself and other relevant information, such as data tables, contact information and what prizes could be won by the top performing teams.
The site had other tools such as photo galleries and pop news windows show info on team winners.
The site was developed with CSS html and asp.net technologies.
The Orange Business Kick-off site was a registration programmed for all sales personnel within orange to attend a number of days at a conference and other activities which were being provided by the company.
The site had a number of user levels from standard user and manager to administrator. With different facilities available to each, including reports and edit functions.
The site was built using CSS, html and asp.net technologies and used a SQL database at the rear.
The Samsung project was a straight sales force programme, with the site used as a source of information for all third party sells of Samsung cameras.
The user would be able view a full list of the cameras involved within the programme and see what points would be gained and what prizes could be won through the programme, ranging from trips away to theater tickets.
The user would be able to register each of their sales through the site and see their progress within leagues tables located in the site.
The site also provided reporting facilities to managers on sales progress.
The site was developed with CSS html and asp.net technologies.
Canon advantage was part of a joint venture Training Programme between Canon and Jessop’s. Canon advantage aimed to deliver rounded training on all of Canon’s products and a basic understanding of the art of photography.
Canon advantage was broken down into four different levels of skill. Each level delivered a series of training modules with rich content designed to guide the participant through the training process. Each Module finishes with a dynamic interactive assessment to ensure that the participant had understood the module. On completion the participant was given their score and a breakdown of each question to see where they answered correctly or incorrectly.
The site was developed with asp.net technologies.
This project for HP was an online incentive and motivational sales programme for HP Services entire EMEA service solutions sales force, with 1500 participants based in 42 countries across 7 EMEA Regions.
The site allowed user to input their sales data, which would then be validate by their line managers. These results would then be displayed in a number of leagues, with points allocated depending on the position.
Users could build up there points over a period of time allowing them to purchase items in an online catalogue. This catalogue would allow users to purchase from a range of goods and would hold tracking information or their orders.
The site also allowed managers to download reports on sales activity.
The site was developed with asp.net technologies.
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Here you'll find what I'm enjoying most at the moment on the web and elsewhere. From great designs to hints & tips found across the web.
It won′t be all web related goodies, there'll be stuff here on anything that grabs my attention.
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Here you'll find where Brewery Lane can be found across the web, have a look and if you can leave a comment or cast a vote.
More to follow soon...
