Dutch/Panamanian film maker and artist Antonio Jose Guzman started a new art project earlier this year. The goal of the project called ‘the day we surrender to the air’ is to unravel his the paths that got his family to Panama. For this he is travelling the world, visiting Africa, South-America and the United States, where he will have his DNA sampled. The result of the project will be a documentari and installation which will be shown on several continents.

To present the material he is gathering on his travels, he contacted Flexr Web Solutions to develop a website for him. Together with him we developed the aquabrowser like navigation for the website. This navigation links the various posts in a spiderweb like fashion to allow the user to browse the information present on the site.

The resulting website www.thedaywesurrender.com is fully AJAX driven with an advanced history manager. The brosing part is made in Adobe Flex. To allow Antonio to update his website with ease and because of its SEO capabilities, we used Wordpress as a content management system.

Visit the website at http://www.thedaywesurrender.com

A client needed a more advanced system to track the visitors to their website than most free tools can offer. This particular company put’s a lot of effort in SEO and web marketing and wanted one of the most advanced tracking systems. Within a month we developed a tracking system that registers the basic data of the visitors, but also traks their geographic information and stores their company name. The system uses only a few lines of code to include on the clients website. The system features a management dashboard with graphs, advanced selectors and detailed visitor data.

Customers can combine this data with the data gathered through web marketing systems to target new leads with pin point accuracy. This is a system that pays for itself.

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For Redbike Multimedia and ReclameArsenaal we are currently building a system to view 80.000 pages of archive material. ReclameArsenaal is digitizing it’s comprehensive archive of advertising magazines and publications, dating back to the start of the last century and consisting of thirty different titles.

An external company (Pictura) is hired to scan the magazines and is using OCR software to extract the text out of the material. They will deliver the scanned material to Flexr Web Solutions. With the custom import wizard the customer can easily import the pages to the database. For every new magazine that is imported, the customer will be asked to insert meta data such as publication date, issue number etc.

Apart from a backend management system we are developing a frontend user interface and a webservice. When finished this will be implemented in the website www.reclamearsenaal.nl. This rich internet application is being built in Adobe Flex and makes it possible to deeplink in the material and to search in all of the 80.000 pages in the archives.

Of course we are very excited to build this comprehensive system. When finished this will be one of the most advanced and responsive systems to search in back issues of magazines and books.

For more information about digitizing archives, magazines and back-issues please contact Flexr Web Solutions.