Victoria Real/Big Brother 3 (March to April 2002)
Lead Front End Developer
- Lead developer in a 5 man team (project manager, tester, designer, part time developer and myself) which designed and developed the Big Brother 3 website.
- Technical liaison for Victoria Real and set the functional and technical guidelines.
- Build all prototype and final html flats. Then convert to JSP so that reusable components could be used in Interwoven Teamsite.
- Strict bug testing, had to comply with Channel 4's strict preference in approach to coding.
Examples of Victoria Real (Endemol)/Big Brother 3 work
BB Main The page designs changed many times during development. Despite this, the flat HTML site was delivered on time and then incorporated into Channel4's Interwoven platform.
BB Mobile This was a new section to the BB site which generated a lot of money for Endemol.
BB Housemate Popularity This section makes use of third party apps such as message boards to provide the rich interactive content on offer here.
Tour the House The Heaven & Hell concept was new for year three. Two versions of the site were built, one "normal" and one with the house partition. Exciting stuff.
Technologies Used
PC, Macintosh, HTML, CSS, JSP, Photoshop, Fireworks, Homesite, Interwoven, Win CVS, Bugzilla, Tomcat.
BB3 wins 2003 Broadcast Award for best use of New Media. BBC News report and BB3 Archive.
BBC & other work
Digital Agencies
Dell Computers Corporation EMEA
Rubus
EO Plc
Forensic Science Service
Victoria Real
Alliance-Unichem
AOL
Video Networks
Opodo
Dare Digital
