Wiley Faculty Network
The client:
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. is a global publishing company that specializes in academic publishing and markets its products to professionals and consumers, students and instructors in higher education, and researchers and practitioners in scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly fields.
The Project:
In cooperation with our rad agency partner, Garfield Group Interactive, we developed our third and largest elgg-based social network to date: The Wiley Faculty Network (WFN). WFN is a global community of faculty, connected by a passion for teaching and a drive to learn, share, and collaborate. Members connect to collaborate with colleagues, join professional and peer groups, find mentors, attend virtual and live events, and view a wealth of resources all designed to help them grow as educators.
The Functionality:
Functionality included: one-click login integration with Wiley’s existing faculty system ProfVal; role-based access with custom profiles; intelligent dashboard widgets that suggest content to users based on their professional and personal interests; a custom content management system plugin allowing Wiley to deliver context and discipline specific content to users; a complete events management system; custom file/resource (documents, videos, audio) sharing; granular analytics and reporting; blogs, user groups and forums.
Built Using:
Elgg, Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Zend, REST
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Tecnara Tools Online Catalog
The client:
Tecnara is a precision tool manufacturing company headquartered in Japan. Their products are manufactured in accordance with the Japanese principal of Kodawari, which means purposeful, unswerving progress. All of their products are built in line with this principal of total dedication to continuous improvement and meet the changing demands of machine tools.
The Project:
The Tecnara Tools website moved the company's entire paper catalog online. The site features a product datasheet download area for members that tracks business intelligence and analytics, a custom content management system that allows staff to add page content and manage users, user forums, company articles, and an administrative panel that allows staff to view reports on user and product activity.
Built Using:
XHTML, CSS, HTML, PHP/MySQL, PHPBB, Flash, Javascript
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Ravenswood Atelier Website
The CLIENT:
The Ravenswood Atelier is a school of traditional art, offering a highly structured drawing and patinging program that adheres to long-tested methods of analyzing and interpreting nature. Their step-by-step curriculum is rooted in 19th century practices of French academic artists whose methods and lineage are both employed and honored.
The Project:
Our designer (and classically trained painter), Christie Stewart, created a beautiful and unique web site and brand for the Ravenswood Atelier. The site features information about the Atelier's philosophy and mission as well as photo galleries for both faculty and students.
Built Using:
XHTML, Javascript.
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Clearspring RSS Widget
The client:
Quick Hit Football is an interactive, web-based football experience that lets you build, coach and manage your team to victory.
The Project:
We created a customizable Flash widget for deployment on Clearspring's content deliver framework (CDN). The widget allows editorial staff to showcase news feeds from the site across the Clearspring network. The widget is configurable via an XML file. Editorial staff can change the RSS feeds, images and headlines on-demand.
The Functionality:
We created a customizable Flash widget using the Clearspring content deliver framework. The widget is configurable via an XML file. Editorial staff can change the RSS feeds, images and headlines on-demand.
Built Using:
Clearspring, XHTML, XML, Flash, Actionscript, Javascript
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Chicken Mob
The client:
Yours truly.
The Project:
Chicken Mob is an internal Arck project that's still under development. Our goal is to create a more conversational Twitter platform, using open-source technologies like Elgg. Sign up for updates and beta access on the Chicken Mob web site.
Built Using:
Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, jQuery, Twitter, Elgg.
Croyten CMS
The client:
Croyten is a leading and unique provider of robust, state-of-the art information technology, including: Business Intelligence, Usability and User Experience for B2B or B2C portals and web applications, Risk Management, and information Security solutions and services.
The Project:
We retrofitted Croyten's web site with the popular open-source content management system Drupal, giving them the ability to interactively add content and manage the top and left navigation on their site.
Built Using:
Drupal, Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, XHTML.
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