Arielle B Cruz

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Web Design, Development & Maintenance

The Mirage Bellydancers Website

Website redesign of web.ics.purdue.edu/~miragebe. The Mirage Bellydance group from Prudue is a performance and instructional group. They offer belly dance classes to students of Purdue University in the the United States. The website is an implementation of the SaWALi Web Application Library, written in Python; presented in HTML5, CSS, and jQuery.

Created: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 07:55:22 +0800
Modified: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 05:13:51 +0800

Philippine Peacekeepers Website

The website contains a registry of Filipino veterans of international peacekeeping and humanitarian missions. The registry currently features a database of names and missions from 1950 to 2008; it is the owners' intention to have this database maintained and updated as necessary.

Created: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:49:33 +0800
Modified: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 05:14:47 +0800

Multimedia Development

DragonNet 2008 Multmedia Package

This multimedia package is a documentation of the Dragon Network's 2008 meeting/symposium held in Tokyo, Japan. The package is split into several sections: `Sessions`, which contains study abstracts and slideshows; `Videos`, which contains a tribute to one of DragonNet's respected members who passed away, and an archive of footage taken during the symposium; `Photos`, which contains photo albums; `Members`, a member profile browser; and `Archives`, a collection of documentation from earlier DragonNet meetings.

Created: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 21:11:43 +0800
Modified: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 05:52:43 +0800

Communicating Across Cultures

This project can be thought of as v.1.1 of The Basics of Intercultural Communication project. It was recomposed for the talk by Dr. Pamala V. Morris and Ms. Inez Ponce de Leon, which was delivered at The 24th Annual Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Resources and Related Sciences Career Fair and Training Conference held in Indianapolis, Indiana on 27th March 2009.

Created: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:03:28 +0800
Modified: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 05:01:44 +0800

Graphic Design

Flash - Faith in the Facts

Faith in the Facts is a visual tool for the talk, `Faith in the Facts: Local Researchers' Perspectives on Science Communication in the Philippines`, by Ms. Inez Ponce de Leon and Dr. Mark Tucker. This talk was presented at the 30th Annual Meeting and Symposium of the Philippine American Academy of Science and Engineering (PAASE) at the University of Wisconsin, at Madison, on May 29th, 2010.

Created: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 23:22:58 +0800
Modified: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 06:09:23 +0800

Poster - That Infernal Bureaucracy!

This poster contains part of a paper of the same title, written by Ms. Inez Ponce de Leon. This poster was presented at the 2nd Annual Graduate Students Educational Research Symposium (AGSERS), held March 5, 2008 at the Purdue Memorial Union, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.

Created: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:00:43 +0800
Modified: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 04:54:16 +0800

Web, Multimedia & Graphics Portfolio

Honours, Recognitions & Other Mentions

Testimonial from Dr. Pamala V. Morris
Assistant Dean and the Director of Multicultural Programs
College of Agriculture, Purdue University, USA
April 2009

"...I have had an opportunity to experience Arielle's work. Arielle has such a bright future ahead of him! The presentation that he designed for my use far exceeded my expectations. As a graphic designer, he is creative, innovative, and very organized. His product is easy to use, adds just the right amount of humor and that captivates and engages each individual participant."

Testimonial from Dr. Mark Tucker, Associate Professor
Dept. of Youth Development and Agricultural Education
Purdue University, USA
December 2008

"Arielle is a gifted multimedia artist who works with a wide range of subjects and clients. His designs are creative, functional and easy to use. His attention to detail helps ensure that messages are appropriate to targeted audiences."

Listed as Content Reviewer in the book,
"Global Kawal" (ISBN 978-971-92556-3-5),
published by the Armed Forces of the Philippines
May 2008

"This book, the first of its kind in Philippine military history, is the saga of the Global Kawal, the outbound Filipino soldier who is flesh to the nation's declaration of adherence 'to the policy of peace, equality, justice, freedom, cooperation, and amity with all nations'." Col. Dante D. Balao and Annanette B. Cruz-Salazar, co-authors

Notable Universal Design Award from
Accessites.org, "The Art of Accessibility"
4th October 2007

"The Arielle B. Cruz site is solidly built in terms of clean/well structured markup, strong semantics, accessibility enhancements and a clear purpose as to what the site has to offer. In addition, it has some effective JavaScript handling that takes enabling and disabling into account as well as a graceful way of displaying regardless of how the site is being viewed." Marco Battilana, Team Access

Mentioned in the book
"Basic Web Accessibility Guide for Filipinos"
by Remberto I. Esposa, Jr.
published July 2007

"The book lists down the basic manual accessibility checklist and detailed description on how to comply with Manila ICT Design Recommendations as well as PWAG Maturity Stages 1 and 2. It also features accessible websites from House of Representatives, Dela Salle University, Arielle Cruz Website, Manila Christian Computer Institute for the Deaf, Vision Office, National Council for the Welfare of Disabled Persons and Emilio Aguinaldo Colleges." Philippine Web Accessibility Group

Plaque of Recognition jointly given by the
DSWD, NCWDP, NCC-CICT, and Vision Office
22nd February 2007

From the Plaque:
"...for [Arielle Cruz's] selfless contribution to make his website disabled-friendly, to inspire best practices and improve access of the public including persons with disabilities to his company's programs and services of/for persons with disabilities aimed at opening up various opportunities for them to the fullest extent possible."

Certificate Of Appreciation from
De La Salle - College of Saint Benilde
28th June 2006

For the talk, "Jack of All Trades: A Worker's Perspective on Multimedia", that I gave in the college's School of Design & Arts.