chromatic.net: erik gibb's professional stuff: portfolio: netscape
Netscape was the original dotcom darling, and the losing faction in the browser wars. I worked for and with some extremely cool people building and maintaining the corporate intranet. Like my role at Netscape, my portfolio examples aren't divided sharply by discipline. I moved fluidly between team lead, information architecture, design lead, and web development as required by the project and our team's workload.
"Buyer X Files" Web Based Training (WBT)
- company: Netscape
- type: ia / design / html / javascript
- description: Buyer X was a Netscape Application Server customized to handle supply acquisitions from catalog, to order, to approval, to delivery and receipt. Our team was asked to build the internal deployment WBT. It was a highly visual, user friendly interface spoofing the X-Files using "Skoldy and Molder" as online guides to walk users through the applications concepts.
- screenshot: gif (96 k) >>
"The Calendar Zone" WBT
- company: Netscape
- type: design / html / javascript
- description: The Calendar Zone WBT served two purposes: Migration from other calendar tools to the Netscape calendar, and Netscape Calendar training. The theme was a spoof of The Twilight Zone and the online guide was a pompadour wearing Mozilla named Rodzilla. (Mozilla was the lizard/dragon thing used as Netscape (aka Mozilla) Communication's mascot. Once a prominent icon of the netscape.com website, he retired from public life in '98. He was well loved and was used extensively by the employees)
- screenshot 1: gif (64 k) >>
- screenshot 2: gif (64 k) >>
Bella Fiore Flower Vendor
- company: Netscape
- type: ia / design / html / javascript
- description: Netscape had amazing on-campus vendors. One of them was a flower boutique called Bella Fiore. We built a small website for them allowing users to orders via online.
- screenshot: gif (68 k) >>
Password Central
- company: Netscape
- type: design / html / javascript
- description: Netscape was an early adopter of LDAP and a strong believer in single sign-on computing. This required our users to create good passwords. This site iteratively walked a user through the creation of a strong password and in the end gave her the option to change the password from within the WBT. Cool.
- screenshot: gif (40 k) >>
"Moz' Home" (Netscape Intranet Navigator)
- company: Netscape
- type: ia / design / html / javascript
- description: Moz' Home was a "remote control" for the entire Netscape Intranet (which consisted of several hundred grassroots sites, in addition to the official sites our team maintained). It incorporated web and company directory searches, hierarchial category navigation, scrolling news, mouseover help, and a ton of cool eye candy. The other point of this project was to showcase the client-side bells and whistles added to the 4.0 series of browsers.
- screenshot: gif (152 k) >>
eChannel (AOL Employee Intranet)
- company: Netscape
- type: ia / design / javascript
- description: eChannel was data mined and rearchitected from the AOL internal Rainman "Employee Channel". The Employee Channel was a fairly low-fi employee newsletter/intranet page. When AOL acquired Netscape, our team moved quickly to displace AOL's internal Rainman deployments with HTML versions that would be easily viewable by the entire AOL (and ultimately AOL Time Warner) family.
- screenshot: gif (76 k) >>
"W3" (Netscape Intranet Portal) 6.0
Prototype
- company: Netscape
- type: ia / design / html / javascript
- description: W3 was Netscape's intranet portal page. I created this prototype to study the differences between the 4.0 and 6.0 browser's layout, javascript, and CSS support. Not much to look at for design, but it was a marvel of dynamic layout and use of style sheets to create a shockingly small download.
- screenshot: gif (60 k) >>
