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…
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…
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….
Around Hawaii is a portal site for Oceanic Time-Warner. This site features rounded corners and css sprites and a tabbed navigation system. Editors can add widgets to any page or page template using a drag and drop interface via ajax magic. It’s basically a custom blog where editors can upload content and members can comment on articles. This site was built with my custom framework…
Kauai Visitors Bureau wanted to redesign their Kauai Discovery site to use lager images which would better show off the beauty of Kauai. Their previous site was designed with smaller monitors and resolutions that users had at the time. Their stats reflected that the majority of their visitors could support larger page sizes. The custom navigation for this site has a thumbnail image for each section in…
Brennecke’s Beach Broiler site features a e-commerce section which allows them to sell logo wear and merchandise. The pull down menus are dynamic and use javascript so choosing a size populates the colors menu with only colors that are available for that size. Items can be added to their custom shopping cart for checkout later or they can checkout right from their cart. This site…
Ingage is one of the most complicated sites I’ve ever built. It’s a member site where members can be either a protege or a mentor or both. The Ingage Zone section of the site is where all the magic happens. Mentors and proteges interact with each other using a series of forms to schedule assignments, track time usage, upload materials, update their profiles and manage their…