John W. Hallahan Catholic Girls’ High School
Level of involvement: Keeping the original design (which, though not trendy, is pleasant and suited to the subject matter), I updated the navigational system and the events calendar, added random rotation for the home page slogan, corrected and updated the PHP code (necessitated by the migration to a new server), and improved the administrative “dashboards.”
Foundation for Research Into Diseases of Aging (FRIDA) Web Site
Level of involvement: I was the webmaster. I redesigned and laid out the site, coded the XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP, optimized the images, and edited the copy (FRIDA’s president provided the images and copy). On the Diseases of Aging” page, I also edited the audio for the “Interview With the Investigator” webcast, which I then assembled in Macromedia Breeze Presenter (which is now Adobe Presenter).
Note: The FRIDA Web site has expired. Links to the site are to an archived copy.
Cases in Advanced Gynecologic Cancers: A Virtual Tumor Board Discussion
Level of involvement: An example of the “virtual lecture” (webcast) approach Meniscus Limited first developed in late 2001
and still use; best viewed on a broadband connection. The graphics department designed the opening screen and the banner on
subsequent pages in Photoshop, from which I created a layout. I coded the
HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, edited the audio, and assembled the presentations
in Breeze Presenter. As an aside: If you click “Enter Activity,” then “Start
Activity” (lower left corner of the browser window), you’ll be presented
with three presentations. Click any one of them, and after you’ve viewed a
slide or two, scroll down through the slide titles (left side of window)
until you get to ones labeled “Discussion.” All the highlighting transitions
in the panel frame were actually done relatively low-tech in PowerPoint.
CExpress—Treatment of Advanced Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer: Interactive Case Studies
Level of involvement: This is an older version (2001) of a platform Meniscus Limited developed for
case-based learning. I devised a method for storing data in HTML
files (a sort of poor man’s XML), optimized graphics, and coded the CSS and
much of the JavaScript. The in-house ASP programmer wrote the code that made CExpress interactive. The platform was resurrected and
modified for ML’s Interactive CE (ICE) product line (e.g.,
Critical Decision-Making
in Health Care Associated Infections: Serious Cases in the Intensive Care Unit). I had limited
involvement in ICE’s development.
CExpress—Treatment of Metastatic Breast Cancer: Interactive Case Studies
Level of involvement: Another example of the older CExpress platform.
Same involvement as previous.