I’ve just spent the evening digging through a pile of old cds and trying to clear out any of no value (some how they just seem to build up). And it’s a miracle! I found the cd containing my old rafcareers.com website which I built back in 2001. I’ve been wanting to add it to my portfolio since I put it together.

The site, or the version which I’ve added to the portfolio is the flash version. I also designed an html version, with the help of Tom Thorpe, when I worked at design net. The previous version had been built by Deep End but the COI weren’t happy with it so we got the contract to sort things out.

Having such a clear and obvious brand I developed the design around that and the idea of using an airbase to navigate around the site. It was a fun project to work on although we ran in to a number of technical issues, primarily with the integration of a ‘flight bag’ (shopping basket) to save jobs which users were interested in.

In the end though, the site launched and was extremely well received, making the cover story of Cre@te Online and being awarded 10/10 on The Web Review, on ITV.

Adding an archived version of the site to my portfolio proved to be a bit of a mare. When Tom burnt it to disc using his mac the formatting of the file names was changed to all caps and the names were truncated. So it has taken me a good hour to go through and rename the files correctly, opening all the different flas and seeing what loads where. As it stands I think I got most of it working. At least you can get a sense of what the site was like. I don’t think any of the games will work, or the downloads either.

So if you are interested click here to check it out, but remember it isn’t live so not everything works!

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