So, it’s been awhile since I have posted anything about what I am doing with myself and I know you are all waiting. Probably hanging on my every word. I know you love me and I love myself, hi-dee-ho hi-dee-ho… not really but what the hell, I have your attention anyway.
Anyway, here’s the low-down. Since Prior to July 27th, I was modulating mos of my time at work between the California Fig advisory board websites, and the holsteinworld.com redesign…both of which are heavily laden with a bunch of “new to me” technologies.
For holsteinworld.com, I wrote a complete custom CRM that controls just about everything you can see on the site from graphics and colors, navigation and menus, news, calendars and feeds right down to just about every miniscule detail. Most of it probably could have been done in Drupal, but this can do a lot that Drupal can’t touch, and it’s very easy to use for our team since it was built with them in mind, and technical functions are taken care of in a predetermined way rather than requested of a user who might not know what they mean.
For the California Fig board, I built the website with a less encompassing Content Manager and a Fig Recipe database unlike anything else on the market. This is where I got my grounds with MySql since I had never actually done anything with it and pretty much got dropped into it without a life jacket. I think I did well.
Following that, I developed a Virtual Page Manger for websites that allows me to design a template, and the owner of the website to edit the content from a simple Admin panel in a very easy manner. No coding necessary, SEO is built in and the plugin system is well on it’s way to being what I could be a fresh new technology. (XML Based plugins) The cool thing about it is that I can simply build a template and drop it in place. The manager will take care of the rest. (Search, Statistics, Menus, and other page content) This truly separates design from content.
But lately, I have been working on two projects. One to offer our customers, and one to replace the defaced Moo-Tube.net.
For the customers, we now have a complete and customizable E-Commerce solution. An E-store that can be added into your website, self-managed and easily adapted to just about any design, payment and shipping system. I have a pretty complete set of shipping integrators with UPS and the U.S. Postal Service. The only payment gateway currently integrated is Paypal, but others should be pretty easy to add support for.
And for us… there is Moo-Tube 2.0. A revolutionary new video sharing platform. Moo-Tube 2.0 is easily themed from Dreamweaver, supports video uploads, rating commenting, and more. It also allows users to comment on each others’ profile, “wall to wall” style commenting, and more. That is just the basic rundown, other features are in store but will be unveiled with the site. We’ll just say it’s the next step towards integrating functionality of YouTube and Facebook into one place.
So, if anyone wonders why I usually disappear from “being online” for most of the evening, it’s because I need to recharge from grabbing amazing pieces of code out of thin air and hammering them out on the keyboard.
Have a great day everyone and if you’re interested in any of these technologies, let me know! I’m happy to help anyone who might be struggling with some of the things I have already solved.