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MyChina Virtual Village

Details

Tools: CSS JavaScript jQuery Photoshop PHP XHTML
Client: Center for Applied Second Language Studies (CASLS)
URL: http://mychinavillage.uoregon.edu/

Case Study

MyChina Virtual Village is a Second Life island dedicated to learning Chinese. This site was primarly designed as a place to be get people interested in the MyChina program.

I wanted to try something different for this project. CASLS wanted a fun site with a lot of imagery. For the homepage I took advantage of CSS sprites and an odd table-based layout to achieve a rather unique finished product. The end result had the Second Life avatars “popping” out of the site.

Site Features

  • CSS sprite-based homepage navigation and tabs
  • Custom jQuery tooltips
  • jQuery FancyBox integration
Case Study — MyChina Virtual Village