Coins & Currency Online Exhbit

Open gallery
An online exhibit built to showcase rare coins from the Colonial Williamsburg collection.
This is an aging project of mine. I still enjoy all the little details that went in to making it a valuable educational tool. About the time I finished, Javascript had reached a point where the whole thing could have been created using it. Ah well.
Awards: 2007 Interactive Media Awards: Outstanding Achievement; 2007 Silver Award, W³ Awards; 2007 Outstanding Website WebAward, Web Marketing Association
- Roles
- Art direction
- Design
- Structure coding (Flash)
- Scripting functionality (ActionScript2, XML)
- Technologies
- Flash
- XML/XSLT
Highlights
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Easy to update using XML
Once again I turned to my trusted back-end format of XML to enable text and image changes without having to re-export the whole exhibit from Flash when content changed.
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Super-fancy dynamically created timeline
This was a hard one! Pulled information from the XML file and then set it up to dynamically arrange on the timeline.
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Lots of added features
To make the exhibit as useful as possible, I included a glossary, search, zoom functionality, informational popups, relative size, and relative value displays.