Foundation for Research Into Diseases of Aging (FRIDA) Web site
Level of involvement: I’m the webmaster. Content needs updating, and FRIDA’s President is working on providing it. My role: I redesigned and laid out the site, coded the XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP, cropped and optimized the images, and edited the
copy (the president provided the images and copy). On the “About 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).
Cases in Advanced Gynecologic Cancers: A Virtual Tumor Board Discussion
Level of involvement: An example of the “virtual lecture” (webcast) approach we first developed in late 2001
and still use; best viewed on a broadband connection. The Meniscus Limited
(ML) 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 ML 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. ML’s 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.