Stan Lee Media

In addition to designing character bio pages for The Accuser, I was responsible for organizing a galleries of "behind the scenes" material; preliminary sketches, storyboards, and other materials used in the course of production. For The Accuser, I used a 3D-Rendered metallic frame around the content on each page.

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Due to the extensive use of Macromedia Flash, complex table layout, and Cascading Style Sheets on the Stanlee.net web site, I was asked to create a JavaScript "Sniffer" script that would detect several key pieces of information: Browser Name (Netscape, Internet Explorer), Browser Version, and whether or not the Flash plugin was installed.

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Another consideration was the fact that most PDAs can’t display Flash movies, which were the chief attraction of the main Stanlee.net web site. The natural alternative was a "Comic Strip" format which could be sent to AvantGo as a series of panels turned 90 degrees to the right. The resulting left to right scroll when viewed on a PDA held sideways is more intuitive for reading content in this format.

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The producers realized that we would need more than a three minute flash animation every other week to retain an audience, and to that end a great deal of supplementary material was made available. I was charged with creating interfaces for The Drifter character biographies. Using copy provided by the writers and artwork provided by the animators, I incorporated everything into a Macromedia Flash-based interface, using ActionScript to handle the scrollbars and control transitions.

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I developed both the interface and the back-end for this component of the Stanlee.net web site, which was the first practical application I wrote using PHP.

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In addition to the design and upkeep of the Stanlee.net web site, the Stan Lee Media web department (known as "Squnkwurx" within the company) was also responsible for exploring new technologies and developing new concepts. The so-called Mobile Web was a hot topic at the time, and for a brief time the company toyed with the idea of publishing an AvantGo channel. The project was eventually shelved, but these are some of the concepts I put together.

Mobile Interface Concepts

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