Jorshasaur, the Online Portfolio of Joshua Barber
CREATING PEACE BETWEEN HUMANS AND DINOSAURS THROUGH WEB DEVELOPMENT
The Jorshasaur Game is a fun game I put together in my spare time for people to learn more about me. Since I'm allergic to shrimp, they seemed like the perfect arch-nemesis for the game! The characters were made in Illustrator, then animated into Flash. The game features a leaderboard, that records the times of the top 5 players who squashed all of the shrimp the fastest.
The Nationwide Family Heritage Tree was a project for families to enter photos and information to create their own family trees. The application allowed users to upload a photo, and crop the photo to fit the display area of the site. Then the family member's initials would show up as carvings on the tree, and users could explore the tree to see their family members. The site was built using Flex 3, and the tree was built using Flash CS4.
Join Starfleet Academy was a marketing initiative from Nokia and Verizon to increase awareness about the 2009 Star Trek movie. The site was built in a very short timeline, somewhere around 3 weeks. We built it using Flash in AS3, and the entire site was planned around tiered release of content. Games, exclusive images, and videos were all released in the weeks leading up to the movie. I was heavily involved in all parts of this site, in development and the overall site concept. The games were especially fun since they all tied to a single storyline, which mirrored some of the action in the movie.
Coke's Live Positively site was released to increase public awareness about all of the community outreach programs that Coke has. This site was built using the Flex 3.0 Framework, and won the Adobe Site of the Day. Much like many of the other sites at Moxie, this site was built to support continued updates at regular intervals.
Like the Star Trek site, this was another partnership with Verizon and Nokia, but for the 2008 Batman release. Most of my work on this site was related to planning and concepting the experience of navigating inside Gotham City. It was also built using Flash and AS3.
Home Depot TV was my first project for Home Depot. It is a huge hub containing all of their online videos, housing everything from how to videos to their tv spots. Right now the site has well over 300 videos, and is controlled by a CMS.
Ultimate Garage is a site to promote the garage season. Did you know there is such a thing as a garage season? It mostly shows off shiny products in very nice garages. The challenge in this site was the assembly of the 360 view of the interior of the garages. The photographer didn't actually shoot the interior correctly, but by doing lots of tricks I managed to make it look like a seamless view.
Just like garage seasons, there are patio seasons too! Built in Javascript, the Patio Accessory Finder lets you match up a series of plain items to a pattern, to produce a final product that you can then order. You might not be able to tell but there are probably 100 - 200 different products available just for your patio! This site is also maintained from a CMS, since promotions and products change often.
Warning! Suspect should be considered unique and eccentric! Subject has a known fascination with technology, and a strange love of dinosaurs.
Associates have reported that he is quick to argue about how Marvel comics are vastly inferior to DC Comics, and how Soundwave was secretly masterminding all of Megatron's activities. He has also been known to complain incessently that Helen was the worst possible final cylon and that (insert random castmember) would have been a better choice. Whatever you do, don't suggest that it should have been Baltar.
Subject's interests include illustration, rabid consumption of good TV shows, and learning as many programming languages as his brain can hold. He also religiously refreshes the Diablo 3 main page every day in hopes of seeing a new playable character class update. Recent reports list him to be located somewhere in the area of Durham NC, although he has been known to wander aimlessly between several locations.
Hi, my name is Josh Barber, and I’m a web developer currently living in Durham NC. My specialties are primarily Actionscript 3, Flash, Flex, and Javascript. However, I’ve also been known to do a lot of PHP and C#. Please feel free to take a look at my resume and code samples, and please don’t hesitate to contact me if you’re looking for a strong front end developer. Thanks for stopping by!
Thanks for the message, I'll get back to you with a response quickly!
