Liz’s Portfolio
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Piedmont Search and Rescue of Richmond, Virginia is a member group of the Appalachian Search and Rescue Conference, one of the largest SAR resources in America. Being an important volunteer organization, PSAR needed a vehicle to reach out to the public and a means to share information among its members.
A blog format was chosen to facilitate communication with the public and among PSAR members in a members-only portion of the website. A membership management script was developed to collect volunteer participation in meetings, training events, and missions, as well as the time and travel miles expended during missions and while training.
A dispatch console available in the private members area serves the group important numbers and documents during a mission to find missing persons. Information collected via the membership management script and at the dispatch console is input to a database to satisfy documentation and reporting requirements.
Juniata County had an outdated Web site which didn’t serve the county very well. The County Commissioners realized the need for their site to be updated and expanded.
The new look for the County’s Web site includes a common header and navigation bar on all pages of the site. A news feature of the site is serviceable by county personnel, where an appointed person(s) can enter a title, news story, and contact person’s information. This content then appears on the Web site instantly through the magic of php.
Forms that are often requested at the county offices are now available on the site for easy access. A photo gallery rounds out the Web site with scenes from Juniata County.
Powder Works is a small powder coating business located in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. This new business needed a web site to highlight how powder coating works and to show why it’s better than priming and painting on metal.
Constant inquiries about the process of powder coating suggested that a web site could be used to great advantage in educating customers. To meet this need, a question and answer forum was implemented on the site where anyone can ask powder coating questions. Also, an image gallery shows the great finishes that are achievable with powder coating.
The Lancaster Kennel Club of Lancaster, Pennsylvania needed to consolidate two existing Web sites into one site that portrayed the club’s mission of sharing information on pure-bred dogs. A clean interface sprinkled with a few high-quality dog pictures details the club meetings, dog shows, dog training, agility matches, and outreach efforts.
A bobbin collector wanted to showcase her antique bobbin collection online. These antique wooden bobbins played an important part in the early textile industry as they were integral to the mechanized production of thread, yarn and cloth. Since her collection had grown so large, Becki also thought it would be great to sell a few of these handcrafted wooden bobbins to other antique collectors. Information about the bobbins and some early textile mills is cataloged in a database that can be easily updated with new information.
An artisan and gift shop owner wanted to establish an online presence for her original line of handcrafted jewelry. Images of the beautiful sterling silver jewelry containing precious and semi-precious gemstones are showcased in a gallery. Details about the items for sale are stored in a database for retrieval on the individual Web pages. The shopkeeper uses a private maintenance page to update the database contents so that her newly created jewelry items can quickly be seen on her Web site.
This fun hobby website is kept fresh with a rotating collection of the day feature. Ease of management was important in this design. A simple change or addition to the database makes it a simple task to add or delete products, activate or deactivate seasonal products, and modify the descriptive text for each product.
Websites in the process of client input and approval include:
- a Siberian Husky show dog breeder in NJ
- a Siberian Husky kennel and breeder in PA
- a church in Ghana, Africa
As these sites become final products their images and links will be posted to this portfolio.
Questions? Comments? Email me here: liz AT computeraxe DOT com.