Unfortunately, some really cool projects we work on aren’t easy to show people. They’re behind a member only section or it’s backend programming that’s only exciting to us geeks.
Recently we completed a programming job for the Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates (COPAA.) Some of the highlights included:
- Creating a Conference Proposal Submission Form that allows presenters to pitch their presentations to COPAA for the 2007 conference. In turn, COPAA has the capability to review the proposed presentations and accept or deny them. This is a great tool for capturing much of the needed information from presenters in the preliminary planning stages.
- Converted COPAA’s large database from ASP to PHP. Not only was this good from a general maintenance standpoint, but it will also make the addition of future technology easier (read: more cost effective for COPAA) to manage.
- Integrated a new Vanilla forum into COPAA’s site for use by its members. The Vanilla forum is interesting in that it’s an open source product and makes use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). In addition to this, our programmer created a seamless login: once a COPAA member is logged into the member area she is also automatically logged into the forum. That means no more double-login for members.
Like I said, not much in the way of visuals, but cool tools that make people’s lives easier. If there’s too much administrative work on your desk, why not give us a call and we’ll see if we can’t automate your workload a bit.
Rich Brooks
Better Living Through Programming
