Till Nagel

myBlank

Wed, 09 Feb 2005 01:55:24 +0000

myBlank is a single page assisting various frequently occuring tasks. It supports browsing the internet, provides fast access to news sites, and to personal bookmarks. Other ‘portlets’ such as weather forecast, or a group message system can be integrated, too.

A ‘HyperSearch’ provides fast and easy access to different search engines.

The page is customizable, i.e. the user can add new search engines, add and categorize his bookmarks, and set options, e.g. if links are to open in new windows.

Welcome to my site!

Mon, 10 Jan 2005 00:25:21 +0000

This blog is not launched yet. Please be patient till I’ll start it officially.

A lot of bits and pieces must be done and most of the content is still missing.

Konami Europe

Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:44:32 +0000

This site was built with the Riot CMS and includes among others

newsletter system
official moderated support center
weekly polls
press center (for accredited journalists)

GelbeSeiten Toolbar

Thu, 08 May 2003 23:04:45 +0000

With this Internet Explorer toolbar users can search the german Yellow Pages fast and easy, directly from every website.

It integrates seemingless into Microsoft’s browser and allows different searches with multiple options such as a geographically localized search. Additionally, the user is able to customize his toolbar interface.

Universal DVD

Tue, 08 Apr 2003 23:06:21 +0000

Universal’s music DVDs offer high quality music with brilliant images. The challenge was not only to display the complete catalogue of music DVDs but to create a good user experience.

Users are able to order products online and find informations, and shots of every DVD. Some community features such as rating were built in as well.

The CMS has to connect to Universal’s main database server. Its original data were fetched via a XML-RPC interface and extended with editorial informations.

Jack Daniel’s Online Store

Thu, 26 Dec 2002 23:05:24 +0000

In the Jack Daniel’s webstore the customers can browse through the products, and can order whiskeys, or merchandising products.

On the backend a base Customer Relationship Managment has been built.

Architektenkammer Hessen

Sun, 08 Dec 2002 23:05:49 +0000

Via this information portal the Architectural Association Hesse (i.e. the Riot CMS editors) can publish and maintain all the contents for architects and principals.

Particularly frequent an events overview with registration service has been visited and used by the more than 10,000 members. Additonally, there are some brochures and other informative literature to order online.

Online Music Store

Sun, 08 Sep 2002 23:04:51 +0000

I wrote this paper for a major german music label to expose the key issues of building up an successful online music store. Main task was to show how distributing digital music can be commercially fruitful, and fit the customer’s need at the same time.

The paper gives an overview on digital rights management, on varying digital music techniques and their ability to protect the label’s rights.

The second big task was the technical conception of creating the new system and integrating it with legacy systems.

Improving information access by visualizing visited hypertext pages

Sun, 31 Mar 2002 00:12:57 +0000

My diploma thesis. The original title is "Unterstützung des Zugriffs auf Informationen mittels Visualisierung besuchter Hypertextseiten"

3dhtml

Thu, 01 Nov 2001 16:47:52 +0000

3dhtml is a DHTML toolkit that supports the development of 3D applications.

The toolkit makes it easy for DHTML programmers to build their own animated three dimensional graphical applications with models, materials, transformations, modifiers, etc.

It gives developers high-level constructs for creating and manipulating 3D geometry and for constructing the structures used in rendering that geometry. In order to do so, it provides JavaScript libraries, documentation and a bunch of pretty examples.

The object-oriented libraries are written to work in cross-browser environments and offer a simple (but multiplatform and plugin-less) 3D framework using JavaScript.

While working on my diploma thesis my friend René and I extended our contribution (Heart3D) to the 5k competition. What we thought is a rapid weekend fun project ended up in a some weeks long venture.
Happily it became a pretty successfull project:

Peak of 5000 visitors and 300 downloads daily.
Mentioned by lots of big design and tech sites. (Surfstation, MetaFilter)
Nice feedback in the JavaScript community.
Was reviewed on many major script sites. (HotScripts, SelfHTML)

(The project is sleeping at the moment and wasn’t updated for new browsers for a while)