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Interactive Multimedia Design  
This page highlights some of my most recent work. Where applicable, I've mentioned my core resonsibilities. For code samples, simply use your browser's "View Source" command.

Publishers Clearing House
PCH.com

  
Website and interactive components
for national direct-mail company 		   

Publishers Clearing House is one of the nation's oldest direct mail and marketing companies. Known for their ubiquitous mass-mailings and the Prize Patrol, awarding millions of dollars every year in sweepstakes. The company has been venturing out into the digital realm with numerous online properties, including PCH Games and PCH Search & Win.
Responsibilities: Creating interactive devices for presenting magazine and merchandise offers. Troubleshooting weekly mailings and landing pages. Validations for online surveys. All with heavy emphasis on HTML/XHTML, CSS, Javascript and Actionscript.

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Publishers Clearing House's main web page. Refered to as the "path", this is where new and returning users start to enter into the sweepstakes. Over the past few years, I have been responsible for helping the site transition to a table-less, standards-compliant format.

   
Traditionally, a significant part of the revenue has been magazine subscriptions. In the past few years the company has succesfully moved into merchandise ("As Seen On TV") sales as well. Click the image above to view a sample landing page. It uses a custom Javascript library to display merchandise over multiple pages, as well as "lightbox" style information boxes. Landing pages are CSS/HTML.

To see another landing page click here. This version uses cookies to transfer order information between an ordering page (part 1) and a registration page (part 2)

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This custom-coded Flash device uses XML generated by a central database to display magazine offers.

   
Dave Sayer is the well known Prize Patrol director. Click to see Flash video embedded on a customer acquisition page. (Note: this page uses an older, table-formatted template.)

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Above is a concept for presenting all the magazines currently on offer. It uses a Javascript formatted database, extracted from an Excel document. Magazines are displayed in multiple categories through Javascript, in a single HTML document, and visitors can add up to three titles to their shopping cart.