This is a series of websites - meant to mimic CNN.com - that provide a unique medium for After Action and Intel reports for an international battle exercise. 

Participants include former and current military personnel from a number of countries - including simulations experts now at West Point & with the Australian Navy -  as well as wargamers from around the world.  In fact, the Bluefor (NATO) carrier task force was controlled by Larry Bond - author and creator of Harpoon (a wargame used informally by navies around the world).

ENN covers this near-future (2009/2010) simulation much like CNN and other online news agencies cover real world events, using flash animations/banners and digitally altered photos to provide immersion to participants and other interested parties.

Many headlines and banners are included for viewer immersion and entertainment. This is the second series of such websites we've designed and maintained for the client with the first project spanning 16 "issues" back in the late 1990s.  This Military Battle Exercise has now concluded with issue #9 being the last edition in ENN's "Global Thunder" series of websites.

Crime Stoppers Kingston / 1000 Islands Inc. 

Website created for the local Crime Stoppers organization. 

Design allows their own staff to easily update pages on their own as they periodically add to the "Crime of the Week" and "Previous Crimes of the Week" sections of the site.

Kingston Heart Clinic 

A clinic offering outpatient cardiology care for patients in the Kingston Region (located between Toronto and Ottawa in Canada). Arcana Media teamed with another designer to create this site. We enhanced the client's logo with animation and sound, creating all the graphics, a flash enhanced map, and converted all photos on the site.

Kingston Diesel Services

Click to visit site

When a local Diesel Services company asked us to redesign their existing website, we enhanced the graphics found on their old site, added a few new ones, and had the client rewrite the text content. Then we gave it a complete facelift using their logo and preferred color scheme.   

The initial Flash menu system appears quickly and additional animation and sound loads in the background while visitors navigate through the site.  Once fully loaded, the link buttons - little diesel engines - become animated with sound. Check it out!

Team Trackless

This website was also designed for James Dunnigan and considerably predates the Team AEW site below.  Team Trackless was designed in January 2000 by one of our staff prior to joining Arcana Media and we were fortunate to be chosen again for the AEW project just over a year later.

Team Trackless is a project that came about in a discussion at the U.S. STRICOM (Simulation, Training, & Instrumentation Command) and used "over the shelf" software (i.e. TacOps) to test new doctrine and tactics for the trackless - wheeled armored vehicles - brigades that the U.S. army was experimenting with at the time. 

As stated on the website's 'How We Work' page: "...several army officers (are) on the team, some of them involved with creating these new units or developing doctrine (for the actual brigades)... they do plan to use the results of our tests". 

Team AEW (Air Expedition Wing)

This site was designed for a project created by James Dunnigan, author of numerous military texts and over 100 simulations utilized by the CIA and the Pentagon as well as wargamers around the world.

As stated on the website, "Team AEW is a volunteer, unclassified effort to use commercial wargames to test new doctrine and tactics for the new Air Expeditionary Wings the US Air Force is putting into service... The purpose of Team AEW is to see if we can develop a faster way for military professionals to test new ideas using off the shelf tools."

The website's main page was designed by ArcanaMedia and then maintained by the client. The project itself has since concluded, but we include the mainpage here as an example of our past work. Note that the "link buttons" are disabled.

Don Tough Security

A security systems business with 25 years experience - since incorporated with another company. 

Check out the flash animation we designed for the menu system that brought their logo "to life" after the basic navigation elements were loaded. Click on the website's image on the right to view.

Note: this business has since merged with another company. However its home page - along with the flash menu and logo animation - has been archived here as an example of our work. Links on the page are not active.

This website was created in 1998 by one of our designers - a full time staff member for that department.

The same designer has periodically changed the appearance of the website over the years, with Macromedia Flash being used for animations, maps, and banners that highlight programs offered by the department. It is generally updated a minimum of two or three times per week and multimedia elements are added frequently.

Another website created in a similar capacity at Queen's University:

Canadian Conference on Student Judicial Affairs  
(designed and maintained)
Note: this conference took place during the summer of 2003. The domain was allowed to expire a year later and only the main page has been archived here as example of our work. Links on this page are not active.

This website for Peter Milliken, Federal Member of Parliament for Kingston & the Islands and Speaker of the House of Commons, was designed and online prior to Arcana Media being awarded the contract for maintenance and updating.

In 2002, Arcana Media updated the "First Capital Day" section with unique graphics and elements gathered through internet research. Additional updates are planned.

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