Pioneering online classifieds site, with presence in 1600 cities.
I took an existing site written in Perl, optimized it, and added new sections using PHP classes. Since there was a virtual host for each city, the Apache configuration needed to be optimized also. New features were added every year, providing world-wide searching and ad posting.
Extensive use of cron-fired reporting and automatic notifications made this site very easy to administer.
Informational and store site for an ethnic arts gallery.
The gallery wanted to display photographs of their items in a gallery. There is also a small catalog of products for sale, information about their art, and information about tours they coordinate.
I was building Zen Cart sites at the time, and the client needed gallery and blog features, which Zen does not provide. This is a melange of Zen Cart, WordPress, and Gallery 2. It proved to be a difficult design, having to work with such different tools. I soon switched to Drupal, which offers all these features and more, and haven't looked back.
Added enhanced features to an online Italian products importer's web store.
Created database backend, content management, inventory management, searching, and various sales, marketing, and presentation tools. Uses outside payment authorization (Cart Manager). Content management and blogging are based on custom framework I created.
The owner has experimented with various innovative features over the years, including a gift registry, gift basket, stories and movies about artisans, recipes, and product selections. Most of their products are from small artisnal vendors, and many are featured in articles to create a bond with the customer.
