About

This online portfolio shows the work that I have done over my placement year with BBC News. All of the work on this page was done by myself, and is owned by the BBC. Clicking on any item, will take you to the page that it is on.

Meet the creatures that live beyond the abyss

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• Technology:
  HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• Date:
  22 January 2010
• Length:
  4 hours
• Description:
  This is an image map, with videos that display when clicking on a mapped area.

Cameron's government: A guide to who's who

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• Technology:
  HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• Date:
  3 June 2010
• Length:
  1.5 hours
• Description:
  This is an unordered list which allows the links to show the hover affect, and the correct html elements have been used.

Where They Stand: Guide to party election policies

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• Technology:
  HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Perl, SSI
• Date:
  26 March 2010
• Length:
  2 months
• Description:
  This application shows a table if the user does not have JavaScript, or an interactive application if they do.

Inspector Gadget

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• Technology:
  HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• Date:
  17 February 2010
• Length:
  2 months
• Description:
  This tool is an original idea. This allows an image to be 'zoomed in'.

Big picture: Parliamentary pomp

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• Technology:
  HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• Date:
  25 May 2010
• Length:
  1 month
• Description:
  This was a product developed by BBC Scotland. I managed the release onto the news site.

Quiz of the week's news

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• Technology:
  AS2, SSI
• Date:
  21 July 2010
• Length:
  2 weeks
• Description:
  I developed the prototype of the share function for the Magazine 7 days quiz. I also worked on the release of the live application.

Two years to go to London 2012 - Olympic video wall

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• Technology:
  AS3, Perl, JSON
• Date:
  26 July 2010
• Length:
  2 weeks
• Description:
  This application was built in Flex and uses a JSON file for the data.

Great whales

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• Technology:
  HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• Date:
  21 June 2010
• Length:
  2 weeks
• Description:
  This is an interractive whale guide.

Budget: What would you cut?

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• Technology:
  AS3
• Date:
  22 June 2010
• Length:
  2 days
• Description:
  This was my first Flex application and allows people to make budget cuts.

School Report

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• Technology:
  AS3, Perl
• Date:
  12 March 2010
• Length:
  2 months
• Description:
  This was my first project. This uses AS3 and shows the schools that were taking part.