Miniteve is an online, groundbreaking TV channel for kids providing short, colourful and pedagogical children's programs of extremely high quality. As chief architect and single developer, I have, together with founder Henry Chu, developed and designed the graphic profile, the web platform and a universal iPhone and iPad app to be released this spring. This to name a few things! Here's a more thorough list.
Developed features and maintenance
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The web platform
A WordPress installation tweaked to fit our needs as a video site. The main plugins that I have used are All In One SEO Pack and WP Favorite Posts along with analytics, sitemap and contact plugins.
I also did develop a post packages plugin, with a user access feature. The plugin is not public at the moment.
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An optimized fork of the f4player Flash video player.
What I did was to improve (limit) visual updating when scrubbing, add HD support, vastly improve the volume bar and add proper comments (yeez!).
The Miniteve Flash video player
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An SMS-driven payment solution
My client's main focus in our implemented payment service was to make it extremely easy to make a purchase. Therefore, I chose to use an SMS service (in our case Wobtel) where a user sends
teve 1to a short number to purchase a package of programs. If it is the user's first purchase, she is automatically registered as a user and provided with a generated password, enabling her to register and make a purchase in one easy step! -
Converting, compressing and distributing video
All videos have to be optimized for streaming in order to reduce outgoing traffic loads and improve the users' experiences while still maintaining great quality, as well as for different devices such as the iPhone or the iPad.
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A smooth experience using JavaScript and AJAX
. Since a video site has many thumbnails, programs (or posts), and in our case also program packages, to display, the user experience is improved by providing a modal box for package purchases and signing in, as well as More buttons, lazy loading and, of course, animating the sun itself!
The tags
