Ryan Ilg { Interactive Development: Rockstar; Location: Vancouver, Canada }

Vancouver Shoe Startup

Taking inspiration from quite a few flash sites, Mark created a simple, yet functional design to emphasize the new Native Shoes. With usability, and web standards in mind, I created the base using XHTML + CSS, running on Drupal for content management. Using a combination of Taxonomy, CCK, Views, and a boat load of custom code, I created an easy to manage product catalogue, with built in Ubercart integration, to allow purchasing of shoes online (coming soon).

Upon first arriving at the site, you are presented with large photos, linked to various sections around the site. The site includes many special rollover states, adding large photos and text on hover. Clicking an individual product brings the user to a horizontally scrolling view of product colours, and allows the user to see all the colours that product is offered in. After choosing a colour, the user is presented with a 360˚ rotation of the shoes, which works with a hover interaction.

2010 Vancouver Olympics house sharing project.

Using Drupal at its core, Home For The Games is one of the most customized Drupal sites I have ever built. With more than 30 different contributed modules, and a purchasing/property creation module built from scratch integrated with Paypal. The use of jQuery, and a customized jQuery date picker, allows for quick and easy tagging of available dates. Home For The Games allows hosts/homeowners to create a profile, and allows a visitor to book individual days to stay. You can learn more about the systems that operate HFG on my blog post.

Vancouver based Interactive and Branding Design Firm.

XML powered, with a slick Flash front-end, and a 100% custom built PHP/MySQL CMS. There are so many features included in this site, it's hard to write just about a few of them. A very well rounded, simple, clean interface really brings this site together.

A module that pulls news based on current date

To celebrate mod7's 7th anniversary, they decided to bring back the viral news headlines they created 7 years ago. I was contracted to do a PHP/CSS/Javascript based module that pulls headlines and images from a already pre-defined folder structure and display the information in a organized manor. On first visit, it will get an upcoming headline (the headlines were not published everyday, so there were large gaps in the file ordering), the system automatically compensates and gets the next one in line. It also allows you to choose a date, and send any headline to a friend.

Running on a custom install of Wordpress, this site supplies the client with an easy way to update her site and blog. Wordpress had to be fully modified in order to do a lot of what was asked for. Along with Blueprint Fundraising, thefundit.com was affected. 2 sites came together to become one installation of Wordpress. The fundit blog uses its own skin, and the rest of the site is styled by another.

User Authentication Software

Building on the core foundation of their authentication system, I built the Cogneto site with a full cms which uses an advanced user tracking module to deliver user specific content (right down to a single world, even in the middle of a sentence) to its viewers. They create logins for clients, and give them extra content based who they are. Using an underlying login system, which works for both clients, and administrators, Cogneto is able to modify content as they see fit.

Vancouver Condo Development

I built the structure of the site using HTML/CSS, & PHP in the back end for easy updates. Using Flash, I constructed the neighbourhood map, which allows users to check out whats around the condo development by surfing the categories. As the map repositions, it will automatically let you know where Stella is if it leaves the viewable area. Also in flash, I built a view engine, which give users the ability to see panoramas from various floors of the condo, as well as suite numbers so users can see their potential view before taking the plunge.