Portfolio - Stuart Loh

A selection of some of the websites I have created over the years.
SS stands for "screenshot".

Active
	Christian Library (in progress) The Christian Library, a Singaporean organization, was sitting on thousands of sermons and talks stored on aging, degrading cassette tapes. In an effort to preserve these sermons - some recent, some decades old - the Library decided to transfer them off the tapes and onto a more modern medium. A major digitization project was undertaken which spanned the better part of a year. The project resulted in the creation of such a volume of audio files that you would need more than a year to listen to them, if you listened to them non-stop. The Library went one step further and decided to make this wealth of knowledge available to the whole world. The next stage of the project involved the creation of a website and database which would serve and assist in managing approximately half a terabyte of sound files. The result, ChristianLibrary.com.sg, provides people with access to all of these sermons and talks. Visitors can download them, discuss them online with others, and offer transcriptions of them. A versatile backend system allows management (including tagging and manipulation of ID3v1 and ID3v2 metadata) of the tens of thousands of files stored on the site. 2009. FRONT-END, PHP, DATABASE. COLLABORATORS: CHRISTOPHER CHAN, KEVIN TRINH. www.christianlibrary.com.sg SS 2 SS 1
	Afghanistan Legal Education Project ALEP is an initiative of Stanford Law School which aims to develop and implement innovative legal curricula on the laws of Afghanistan. ALEP needed a clean, attractive website on which to provide information about itself, as well as links to further information and resources. A feature on the site also allows people to submit their experiences with Afghanistan anonymously. 2009. FRONT-END DESIGN, PHP. www.afghanistanlegaleducation.com SS 2 SS 1
	Tabulaw A splash page for a Valley startup. The logo was designed via a design contest that the company put out on 99designs.com. 2009. FRONT-END DESIGN. COLLABORATORS: ANDREAS BRAENDHAUGEN. www.tabulaw.com SS 1
	Stanford Journal of International Law The Stanford Journal of International Law was looking for a design refresh of its website, which was beginning to show its age. 2008. FRONT-END DESIGN. sjil.stanford.edu SS 2 SS 1
	Optimum Freight Express - Shipping Calculator OFE is an Australian courier company that needed an online solution to calculate freight costs. Given the names of the despatch and destination suburbs, the package weight, and the class of service, I created a program that calculates the distance between origin and destination and, using that, derives the total cost of delivery. 2007. PHP. www.ofe.com.au SS 1
	Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre CLPC is a policy center at the University of New South Wales. They often organize conferences and link to and write about topical issues reported on the internet. Their website is key to conveying this information and they wanted to refresh the look of their site to make it easier to navigate and browse. CLPC was known as the Baker & McKenzie Cyberspace Law & Policy Centre when the site was initially (re)designed. 2004. FRONT-END DESIGN. www.cyberlawcentre.org SS 2 SS 1
Now Inactive
	The Backbench (2.0) After closing in 2006 (see below), The Backbench attempted to make a comeback in 2008, but after a promising start, time once again was the limiting factor. 2008. FRONT-END DESIGN, PHP, WORDPRESS IMPLEMENTATION. www.thebackbench.com SS 2 SS 1
	The Backbench (1.0) The Backbench was an online magazine started up by a bunch of young professionals. It had a good run, with a lot of quality contributions, predominantly from Australians around the world. The Backbench closed up when the editorial board began to fragment around the world and professional lives began to get busier. The five editors each ended up in different industries: recruiting, politics, finance, pharma, and law. 2003-2006. FRONT-END DESIGN, PHP, DATABASE. COLLABORATORS: JACK FITZGERALD, LACHLAN HARRIS, STEPHEN PHILLIPS, KEVIN YEOH. old.thebackbench.com SS 2 SS 1
	Jaxter Artist Awards Originally a music competition, Jaxter gradually expanded to offer prizes for music, graphic design, and t-shirt design. Jaxter donated some of its proceeds to charity. Although Australia-based, Jaxter received entries from all over Australasia, leading to multi-lingual versions of the website being developed (in English, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean). 2005. WEB SERVER ADMIN, SOME FRONT-END DESIGN. SS 4 SS 3 SS 2 SS 1
	Yen Industries Yen Industries was a small computer hardware retailer. The website, at www.yenindustries.com, offered access to YI's full product catalog (including pricing and, sometimes, inventory levels). Customers could place orders online and track the progress of them as they were processed, packaged, and shipped. At its peak, the system processed tens of thousands of dollars worth of transactions each month. The screenshots also show a redesign and online rebranding in late-2004. 2004. FRONT-END DESIGN, PHP, DATABASE. SS 3 SS 2 SS 1
	Sleep and Chest Disorders Centre A brochureware site for a medical clinic specializing in sleep and chest disorders. 2003. FRONT-END DESIGN, PHP. SS 1
	UNSW Law Society A website for the peak law student representative body at the University of New South Wales 2003. FRONT-END DESIGN, PHP, DATABASE, MAILING LISTS. SS 1
	Absolute God A one page site advertising a Christian DVD box set. 2002. CONCEPT DESIGN. SS 1
	Fissure Design A splash page for my old web design business. 2001. FRONT-END DESIGN. SS 1
	Up Over Down Under During the Australian summer of 2000, myself and three friends went for a three month backpacking trip around the world. This must be one of the world's first group travel blogs, with each traveller having their own account under which they could post. A location tracker automatically matched up our location to our itinerary. Posts could be tagged with the location from which they were made. 2000. FRONT-END DESIGN, PHP, DATABASE. COLLABORATORS: EMILY YEOH, KEVIN YEOH, YVONNE CHEUNG. travel.fissure.org (offline) SS 2 SS 1
	Trinity Grammar School When I was in Year 11, I did a redesign of our school's webpage. After showing it to the head of the computing department, he decided to replace the current webpage with my design. By the time I hit Year 12, I had managed to found a new after-school extra-curricular activity - the TGS Web Group. In what might possibly have been the nerdiest officially-recognized extra-curricular activity (except for maybe the chess club and Cartesian Society), a group of about six or seven of us would meet weekly under the supervision of the head computing teacher to maintain and develop the school's website (which was easily the best looking high school website in Australia at the time!). We also managed to sneak in some rounds of Quake over the network when no one was looking. 1997-1998. FRONT-END DESIGN. COLLABORATORS: THE TGS WEB GROUP (IN 1998). SS 1
	Schmick This was how my homepage looked in 1998. Back when people still had "homepages". I am happy to say that it was blink tag-free. 1998. FRONT-END DESIGN, PERL/CGI. SS 1
	Sydney City This website won first place in the national Learning 21 Australian SchoolsWeb Competition. I think we won some computers and cash... unfortunately the computers went to the school (they were Macs, so I didn't really miss them at the time). 1997. FRONT-END DESIGN, PERL/CGI. COLLABORATORS: DAVID MCLEISH, PHILIP HARDING.
	Picardy This website is a prime example of website design for small businesses in 1997. I am thankful those days are long gone, but sites that look like this still exist today! The business owner was a breeder of prized poodles, which I must say was an interesting, albeit unusual, line of work. 1997. FRONT-END DESIGN.
	OzWL Tactics Chamber In the days before Battle.net, there was OzWL - the Australian Warcraft League. Administered by Garf and Perl-coding legend Prowler, it was a very slick league website that used the ELO system to rank its members, who used to play via Kali (for the young'uns around, that was a program for, among other things, enabling IPX connections over IP, since Warcraft II didn't support network play via IP!). I used to maintain the tactics section of the OzWL website before Astro took over. Ahh, high school days. 1997. FRONT-END DESIGN. SS 1

	The LLM Experience At the end of my time at Stanford, I decided to put together a photo book. The project quickly ballooned, and the book become much larger than I initially intended. With the inclusion of infographics, charts, collages, stories, and lots of other stuff, the book turned into a yearbook of sorts. (I say "of sorts" because it was put together from my point of view alone.) In the end, a few dozen copies of the 120 page book were ordered by people through Blurb! The law school eventually got their hands on the book and bought a dozen copies. And it turned out that Dean Larry Kramer himself ordered two copies. 2009. PHOTO CONTRIBUTORS: KATRIEN LINDEMANS, KARNI CHAGAL, KOTA KIKUCHI Preview & Order on Blurb.com Download low-qual PDF Sample spread
	Vicarious Travel (book) This book is a compilation of some of the travel posts which appear on Hear Ye! I got it printed out by Blurb.com. It makes for decent reading if you need to kill some time. 2008. Download PDF
	Backpacking Trip Life Poster After a four month backpacking trip around the world in 2005, I put this file together and got it printed out as a large poster for mounting on the wall. 2006. PHOTO CONTRIBUTORS: DORIAN KRATSAS, CHERYL TAN View Poster
	The Backbench Issue 14 For a couple issues of The Backbench, I decided to produce a print version so people could take a copy home with them on the bus or train and read it (this was in the days before the iPhone or Kindle). The resulting PDF was nice to look at, but very time consuming to produce. This is one of the issues that was produced in print as well as in its usual online format. 2005. ISSUE CONTRIBUTORS: LACHLAN HARRIS, GLENDA KWEK, GLENN BYRES, TIM AYLIFFE, EMILY MCCANN, STEPHEN PHILLIPS Download PDF

	Hedge-Me.com - Logo Designed while I was working with a Valley start-up which was designing a hedged portfolio building tool for consumers. HedgeMe later changed their name to TruHedge after the owners of www.hedgeme.com were unwilling to sell their domain name for an affordable price. (We had www.hedge-me.com.) 2009. View Larger
	LectureFeed - Logo Designed during the 2-day Stanford Venture Weekend codefest. LectureFeed was described by one person in the team as "Twitter for the lecture hall", but a better description would be a sophisticated chat client that was designed to run alongside live lectures. Lecturefeed would provide a second track of classroom discussion, addressing problems where only one person in a class can talk at a time, and where by the time you've figured out what's going on, the class has moved on and you've missed your chance to ask a question. Professors could monitor this second track to figure out if everyone understands them, if they are going too fast or too slow, or if anyone is paying attention. They could also use it to run improptu polls which do instant "show of hands" counts. TAs could analyze chat channel discussion for evaluating class participation marks. Broadening the idea, a projector could stream the chat channel behind any speaker to show real-time comments (and heckling!). 2009. CONCEPT DESIGN. View Larger
	Upquest - Logo Designed during the 2-day Stanford Venture Weekend codefest. The vision for Upquest was to create a platform for a virtual world that could be layered on top of the real world for augmented reality applications. The platform would ultimately be a global database containing objects, their locations, properties, states, and relationships with other objects. The initial use case for the Upquest database was for campus games, such as virtual scavenger hunts using iPhones. You would be able to walk to a location, use your iPhone to pick up a virtual item there, walk elsewhere, and drop it in a dropzone for points. You could also adapt it for games such as assassin. 2009. CONCEPT DESIGN. View Larger
	Ange & Jen - Birthday Invitation I took an old Ticketek concert ticket and photoshopped it to turn it into a birthday invitation. 2008. View Larger
	Kev & Cath - Engagement Party Invitation A friend wanted a casual invitation for their engagement party that they could send via email, but also print out and send via post. 2008. View Larger
	Posting Statistic Infographics Ok, not truly infographics, but pretty graphs showing my posting patterns on Hear Ye! from 1998 to 2006. 2006. View Graphs
	BIT Quarterly Dinner - Dinner Invitation Designed to be emailed, this is an invitation to a quarterly dinner we used to have at Sydney's wonderful array of fine dining restaurants. 2005. View Larger
	Fissure Design - Logo This was the logo for the web design business I used to have. It was rendered using POV-Ray by Dave/Shish/Alvin into this rather slick looking graphic. The benefit of having it in POV-Ray was that it could be animated in 3D. 1999. COLLABORATORS: DAVID MCLEISH. View Larger

	Managing the Jurisdictional Risk of Doing Business on the Internet There is a distinct paucity of discussion about how businesses should practically deal with jurisdictional risk. What can and should internet businesses do to manage jurisdictional risk? How does a business reduce, in a cost-effective manner, the risk of being hauled before a foreign court, or having a foreign judgment enforced against it? Indeed, businesses have an obvious interest in finding the answers to such questions. A survey conducted by the American Bar Association in 2003 showed that companies around the world and across all industries regarded litigation risk as their largest jurisdictional concern, exceeding concerns associated with conflicting legal frameworks. Clearly, finding ways to mitigate jurisdictional risk is important.This paper focuses on various legal, technical, political, and other techniques a business can use to address jurisdictional risks (and in particular, litigation risk). It analyzes the effectiveness and problems of such techniques and evaluates which techniques are more appropriate in certain situations. 2009. This is an unpublished paper, submitted for a class. It absolutely does not constitute legal advice. Download PDF
	Vicarious Travel (book) This book is a compilation of some of the travel posts which appear on Hear Ye! I got it printed out by Blurb.com. It makes for decent reading if you need to kill some time. 2008. Download PDF
	Continuous Assurance of E-Business Transactions for Fraud Detection The only conference paper that I got published out of my honours thesis. It's not particularly interesting to the general public. After staring at the topic area for a year, it wasn't particularly interesting to me by that stage, either. 2002. SUPERVISOR: PROF. RODGER JAMIESON. Download PDF
	Napster v. RIAA: Copyright and MP3s As an IT undergrad, I took a class about IT Business Law. It was a class for non-lawyers, taught by a lawyer. For our major term deliverable, we formed groups and were given free reign to write about any topic related to IT law. As I recall, our group's effort was enough to earn the paper a Distinction, but from a law student's perspective, it is a pretty awful paper. I uploaded this because I thought it would be interesting to compare this paper with the one above (on internet jurisdiction). It's amazing what 3.5 years of legal education will do with your legal writing skills. 2000. COLLABORATORS: ALAN AU, DAVID LOENG. Download PDF

	Trampampolining While studying for the California Bar Exam, I was very easily distracted from doing what I should have been doing (i.e., studying). One distraction was to go to this place in Santa Clara which was a trampoline centre. Another distraction was to try my hand at video editing. So for this I used the videos we shot at the trampolining place. This is the result. 2009. Watch Video
	LinkLogr.com An experimental bookmarking site. I used it a lot, but no one else really did. 2008. www.linklogr.com SS 1
	Faces of Death An experimental e-postcard of people being attacked by pigeons in St Mark's Square, Venice. 2005. View Image
	Beijing Winter School Graphic This was meant to be the cover image for a hard copy photo album, but the photo album never happened. 2005. View Image

Christian Library (in progress)

Afghanistan Legal Education Project

Tabulaw

Stanford Journal of International Law

Optimum Freight Express - Shipping Calculator

Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre

The Backbench (2.0)

The Backbench (1.0)

Jaxter Artist Awards

Yen Industries

Sleep and Chest Disorders Centre

UNSW Law Society

Absolute God

Fissure Design

Up Over Down Under

Trinity Grammar School

Schmick

Sydney City

Picardy

OzWL Tactics Chamber

The LLM Experience

Vicarious Travel (book)

Backpacking Trip Life Poster

The Backbench Issue 14

Hedge-Me.com - Logo

LectureFeed - Logo

Upquest - Logo

Ange & Jen - Birthday Invitation

Kev & Cath - Engagement Party Invitation

Posting Statistic Infographics

BIT Quarterly Dinner - Dinner Invitation

Fissure Design - Logo

Managing the Jurisdictional Risk of Doing Business on the Internet

Vicarious Travel (book)

Continuous Assurance of E-Business Transactions for Fraud Detection

Napster v. RIAA: Copyright and MP3s

Trampampolining

LinkLogr.com

Faces of Death

Beijing Winter School Graphic