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Community Christian Church   [Sample Site]
CSS, HTML, JavaScript, MySQL, Perl, RSS/XML

This site is constantly updated by the church staff using a password protected custom management system written in Perl with a MySQL database. The management system allows staff to update events, newsletters, and more. Pictures are easy to uploaded and organize into albums since they are stored in a database. This allows staff to update their photos and change pictures on different areas of the site. All updates are provided to search engines and subscribed users automatically using RSS and XML.
Department of Engineering   [Sample Site]
CSS, HTML, JavaScript

The Department of Engineering at East Carolina University contacted me to update some of the information on their website and to make the site look uniform. Previous updates had been performed using Microsoft FrontPage without and standard template, making the site look completely different from page to page. Within a few days, I update the content on the website and created a standard template that is used on all of the pages. A benefit of the transformation was that the average page size before the update was 11.6 KB per page and the new average page size is 4.5 KB with no loss of quality or content.
Department of Technology Systems   [Sample Site]
CSS, HTML, JavaScript

East Carolina University.s Department of Technology Systems had a website that lacked a standard template and created an inconsistent look and feel throughout the website. Updates were performed in Microsoft FrontPage, which resulted in unnecessary code and inconsistency between various Internet browsers. After creating a template to be used throughout the site, a 3-click analysis was performed to ensure that any content on the site was able to be accessed in 3 clicks or less. Forms located on this site use JavaScript to check submissions because of a lack of server side language support. This ensures that required fields are filled in before the data is submitted.
TCOM, L.P.   [Sample Site]
HTML, LDAP, MySQL, Perl

The MIS department at TCOM, L.P. required a new method of storing information about their computer inventory. The solution was a website that could be accessed at all of the facilities using the company.s Intranet. The inventory management system was secured using the company.s existing Novell LDAP server, allowing MIS personnel to maintain a single password for multiple applications. The site also monitored the UPS status, server room temperature, and network information using pings, allowing the MIS department to monitor the current network status from any computer on the Intranet.

The rest of the company had various uses for the website as well; there was a database of company phone numbers and extensions that could easily be searched using a custom written Perl search engine. The most used portion of the site is the weather monitoring and archiving pages. The website collects data from various sensors located at two of the company.s facilities. The data is presented in an easy to read format with dynamic graphs (as shown in the picture to the left). The information was also stored in a MySQL database which allows employees to see and export, in CSV format, the weather conditions of up-to 1 year ago.

Web Server Personal Project   [Sample Site]
ASP, HTML, MySQL

This site was created as a project for a Web Server Management course that I took for my undergraduate degree at East Carolina University. The site enables users to create accounts which allow them to create and update content on the site. Users were allowed to protect their content by restricting other users from editing the articles. A Boolean compatible search engine was written from scratch specifically for this site, enabling users to search for partial words in the title and content of the articles and raking the results based on the number of occurrences that the search query was found. The website was never used in production but was thoroughly tested during the course.
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