design, web & content design
Are you ready for some football-baseball-college ball-basketball …

A quick design project, #tbfan zone is a simple landing page where tampabay.com is collecting Instagram photos and tweets from our various sports accounts for a fun and dynamic hub aimed at engaging the Tampa Bay area sports fans. The page came together in a couple of hours with some widgets, simple html and a little design umph. Working with my colleague, Amber McDonald, this was envisioned as an outreach effort in our ever increasing social media efforts. It is being promoted from our homepage to encourage more audience participation following on the good reception we got from music lovers for a similar project, #tampabaylive. Here’s the page:

design, interactive design
Interactive body graphic as navigation

The graphic was developed both in Flash and plain html to serve as a navigational element for content on a client’s site. The site will detect whether or not the visitor is on a flash compatible device. The client understood the need to provide the information to all users, but still wished to have a fancier version with more animation for the desktop audience. The body was illustrated in several positions (2D for a more traditional look) to simulate the illusion of rotating the figure. The leaf was their existing logo motif. Here’s the Flash version for the full effect:

Animated Flash version:

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HTML version:

design, web & content design
Hurricane season is here

Our yearly tampabay.com Hurricane Season guide has published. This page is always a challenge in that we have to accommodate so much information and still highlight very important resources that people must be able to find quickly when the need arises. So we try to keep it simple, yet somewhat vibrant.