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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

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

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

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Web Design, Development & Maintenance

Let's say you own a small business that manufactures fashion accessories from indigenous materials. You'd like to exhibit your products on the World Wide Web to broaden your market, but you can't be bothered to learn the nuances of creating and maintaining a website.

There are free content management, e-commerce, and blogging tools out there, which become very easy to use once you get the hang of them. However, without having someone to customise the templates, your site can end up looking just like everybody else's. Technically, that's not a problem. But from a marketing perspective, this may not be a good thing.

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Multimedia Presentation Development & Assembly

Have you ever been to a convention where a participant handed you a DVD of their organisation's profile? Have you ever seen a digital yearbook? Nifty little things, aren't they? These multimedia packages are not difficult to make— they shouldn't be expensive either.

While others may charge you as high as one hundred-thousand Pesos for this kind of service, I offer it for only thirty-thousand *. For that, you get a master copy of your multimedia package, and you can make as many copies of it as you want. You can even have someone else tweak the package components and resources so that you can use the product as a Flash-based website. (Of course, I'd prefer it if you also acquired my web development services. But hey, what's yours is yours.)

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Graphic Design for Screen & Print

Does your work involve delivering talks— but does PowerPoint not seem to like you very much? Do you have a picture that you want to blow-up— but there's a pimple getting in the way? Are you required to make a science poster about the research you've just done— but feel that making layouts isn't one of your fine talents?

Don't worry about it: these things don't cost a fortune. My standard rate for doing graphics work is five-hundred Pesos * per hour, and simple clean-up and layout jobs don't take long. Enlarging images and removing blemishes takes only minutes, while making posters or slide shows requires a only a couple of hours— four at most.

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* Pesos, you say? Philippine Pesos, at the time of this writing, has a US Dollar exchange value of 45:1. This means that P15,000.00 is around US$330.00, and P500.00 is around US$11.00. To get the current exchange rate between Pesos and Dollars (and other currencies), please visit the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas website's Exchange Rate Bulletin.