This site features information about festivals on Kauai. This is a complete update of their previous site that I built in 2004. The new site features a simpler navigation system and larger images to reflect the larger monitors and higher resolutions that are used by modern web surfers. The site was built using my customized Zend Framework. It uses Blueprint Css, smarty, adodb, jquery, pear…
I would of liked to have Tsunami Marketing design my site but I really couldn’t afford them and I didn’t want to have to build the front-end and a CMS as well. Robert, my former boss, was experimenting with WordPress and found it to be quite good. That’s a huge endorsement coming from him since his designs are usually quite challenging to build. I was…
Holoholo Charters web site was a redesign to take advantage of the higher resolutions and larger monitors used by web surfers today. We also streamlined the checkout process so users could make a reservation from Holoholo’s site using their secure server and Paypal without leaving their site. To achieve this we integrated their reservation system from Atco Software into thier new site. We used Atco…
Air Ventures Hawaii features masthead graphics that play as a slide show on load. There is also a slide show popup that uses smarty conf files to load graphics and captions. The reservation system integrates with A3H a third party reservation system to check availability and make a tour reservation. Jquery is used through out the site to create interactive components and customized heading elements.
Silver Falls Ranch uses Atco Software to book their rides. We query their API using SOAP to get the rides availability and then block any days that are booked from showing in the calendar date picker for all their rides. We store the availability info in a Mysql database which we then query to create the calendars. When a user decides to book a ride…
Tsunami Marketing wanted to redesign their website to take advantage of users larger monitors to showcase their great designs. There are lots of layers and javascript used to create a interactive site that encourages users to view the next page. The site features navigation thumbnails that entice the visitor to click on them. An animated graphic is used as a background layer and displayed while…
Wahooo Seafood Grill & Bar was a new site for this Kapa’a restaurant. The navigation features a pull down fly out menu using jQuery. All menu items are update via smarty conf files. There is a CMS for adding items to the merchandise section. The merchandise section uses javascript to populate pull down menus based on selections made in other pull down menus. So choosing…
This site uses a CMS based on smarty conf files. The site editor can log in via ch-rooted ftp and edit the conf files that create the site. Each page has a Hawaiian version and an English version. SIFR is used for the headline of each page and allows for changes to be made in the conf files as English and Hawaiian text.The page displays…
The Island Truss website’s designer wanted to use a stencil style font which is unavailable to most users. The site content is dynamic and editable through a custom CMS. Creating graphics for all the text elements using the stencil font was not practical. Enter sIFR, sIFR is a technique that replaces text elements on a page with flash graphics set with the specified font and…
This Poipu Beach Resort Association website was a redesign of their site built in 1999. The site was built to take advantage of the larger monitors and resolutions enjoyed by web surfers today. The custom CMS was updated to allow the site editor to place teaser widgets on specific pages. There is also a weather widget which displays the current conditions and a search widget….