Tico Tours
This was a redesign of a travel site owned by the same client who runs ISA. The site isn't live yet, but my portion of the work is done. I learned quite a bit on this project. The front page will have a simple Flash slideshow that grabs the images and captions from an XML file. This keeps the actual flash file very small since it is essentially actionscript. I used a free script called RSS2HTML to display current weather conditions from an external RSS feed. I created the beginnings of a very simple shopping cart mechanism, but it will probably be replaced or at least highly modified by the client's IT department. I used Google's embeddable maps for a clickable image map. This method is even easier than using their API. It is yet to be determined if they will actually use it for the site though, but they may use it even more than I planned. I learned a few other little php and css tricks as well.
Clicking on a thumbnail will open a larger version in a slideshow. Mouse over the larger image to see the prev and next buttons. Click on close at the bottom of the image when you are finished.
