Recent Sites

As the Lead Developer for a local ISP and the primary developer of our home-brewed PHP CMS I have actually been tech lead or involved with at least 75 sites over the past few years. That includes websites and web applications for local construction companies, a Credit Union, one of the larger Churches in the area, a major Real-Estate site and various Goverment and School sites. I've also worked on several "extranet" style applications that are not public facing but used extensively by corporations (a major Fast Food franchiser, for instance) to manage geographically disparate personnel and data. There are over 150 sites that I am aware of that run software that I originally wrote!

As I'm no longer formally affiliated with my old employer, however, I'm linking here only to old sites that I did in my spare time and new sites that I've worked on independently. I would be happy to give seriously interested clients a brief tour of the many online properties in which I've been involved.

Calvary Temple Worship Center Online Store

Significant modification of an existing osCommerce site. This included the installation of modules for credit card processing and custom reporting and modifying osCommerce to fit a designer mock.

Technologies involved:

php, osCommerce

Approximate Cost:

$1000

Time to Completion:

N/A

Modesto Real Estate

A rewrite of an existing MLS Real Estate site. Most of the front end work involved building a better search and improving the display of properties - most significantly with a Google Maps display on each individual property page. There was actually more work on the back end for this site - it's on a colocated server that imports data from MLS daily and also handles email for the Company. I maintain the server.

Technologies involved:

mysql, php, Google Maps

Approximate Cost:

N/A

Time to Completion:

N/A

Gustine Unified School District

This was a new from scratch site - written in Django and my first try at using the YUI css libraries on a mock from my designer. Notable features include a decent calendar module with a nice AJAX editing interface... This is now running on a windows server hosted by the School District and was my first experience installing Django on Windows.

Technologies involved:

mysql, django, jquery

Approximate Cost:

$2500

Time to Completion:

2 weeks work spread over 3 months...

51fiftyracing.com

This was an existing static site that wanted some dynamic content. I wrote a PHP class to interface to the SmugMug PHP api so that the photos page shows galleries and photos created in their SmugMug.com account. I used a JQuery based lightbox control to handle photo navigation within an album. They also wanted a dynamic news and schedule page so I ended up installing Django to take advantage of the great Admin's and used mod_rewrite to map the old .html urls to the new dynamic views.

Update: This site has since gone all flash (not my idea!) but they're still using my photo gallery in there...

Technologies involved:

mysql, php, CURL (to comunicate with the SmugMug remote API), Django, and thickbox

Approximate Cost:

$500

Time to Completion:

2 Days

perryandsons.com

I implemented a simple recipe management application for perryandsons.com. This was an existing html site built in Dreamweaver that wanted new functionality without changing the site structure, design, or technology. I built a single php page that used the existing Dreamweaver template to present searchable/browsable recipes in categories. I also built a simple single page admin that allows the site owners to edit recipes simply.

Technologies involved:

mysql, php, various PEAR libraries

Approximate Cost:

$500

Time to Completion:

1 Day

decentfilms.com

This was a redesign of an existing html site. decentfilms.com was a popular film review site by the Catholic film critic Steven Graydanus. As a fan of his writing I contacted him and ended up doing the redesign in partner ship with him - The design is his and I converted it to mostly compliant html and CSS. All the reviews (several hundred) moved from full page static html into a database via a regex html parsing script and I implemented a redirect module to make sure no links were broken in the migration. Steven's ease of use in maintaining the site was significantly improved - previously he had hand built indexes of the reviews by various criteria but now the reviews are fully searchable by rating, genre, date, etc. I also added RSS feeds so readers could subscribe to the site and be automatically notified when new reviews are posted.

Steven continues to write and decentfilms.com was getting 20,000 hits a day last I checked. Due to the heavy use of caching, however, it runs happily on a inexpensive shared hosting account.

Technologies involved:

mysql, php, various PEAR libraries

Approximate Cost:

N/A

Time to Completion:

3-4 months of spare time - perhaps 60-80 hours all told.

dunkardbrethrenchurch.com

This is the Denominational site for the Church I grew up in. A friend of mine goes there and did the data entry and picked the template - I set it up in a CMS and wrote a custom module to generate the Google Map of the Congregation locations.

Technologies involved:

mysql, php, various PEAR libraries, Google Maps Javascript API

Approximate Cost:

N/A

Time to Completion:

3-4 weeks of spare time - perhaps 10-20 total.

eternalpraiseministries.com

This is the site for a Southern Gospel singing group called Eternal Praise. I'm am related to some of the members so when they needed a little web help... I set them up. I picked a template from oswd.org and customized it heavily... The site itself is fairly basic - a CMS with admin interface to edit pages and the menu, the blog with RSS feed, and fairly substantial photo galleries.

Eternal Praise just finished recording their 5th CD now and the annual Concert they host had over 1000 attendees this year...

Technologies involved:

mysql, php, various PEAR libraries

Approximate Cost:

N/A

Time to Completion:

2-3 weeks of spare time - perhaps 30-40 hours total.

metapundit.net

My personal site - mostly a blog but also some other random writing and hidden photo gallery. Badly in need of a rewrite and a redesign but still ticking...

Technologies involved:

mysql, php

Approximate Cost:

N/A

Time to Completion:

5 years :)