Case Studies

Big Bridge

While at Big Bridge I developed one site from scratch in Drupal 7 and completed, deployed and provided enhancements to sites created in Drupal 7, 6 and 5.

Veterans Rugby Queensland

Complete site from scratch in Drupal 7. Featuring: Slideshow, Image gallery, News section, Event section, Members on area and Club pages

JKTech

Added Member only course pages
Enhanced Member management
Added Board members page
Added Management page
Enhanced Latest News section
Enhanced banner images
Added Events section
Enhanced menu system

RPS Group

Added staff page
Added contact form
Added news ticker to front page
Added careers advert to front page
Added image gallery
Enhanced project / services search

iConcierge

Enhanced navigation menu
Added contact form
Added location map
Added Twelp advert panel

Electrical Trades Union

Module to export calendar information to Microsoft Outlook using iCal.
Enhanced custom login

PanAust

Enhanced image gallery and slideshow

Poolwerx

Enhanced shop finder

Office of the Information Commissioner

Minor changes
Functional Specification for new site

Divine Woodvale Estate

Added image gallery

Battery World

Added improvements to the store locator

Battery World Recycling mini site

Added custom Members page
Added CSV download of Member contact details

Keller Ground Engineering

Themed new site

The AOT Group

Framework

The SDK (Software Developing Kit) handles the front controller, template system, widget object factory and reusable objects such as date and money.

The SDK also included a comprehensive JavaScript library.

The iRes booking engine

iRes, short for Internet Reservation System, was originally developed for a wrapper to the Tourplan (see www.tourplan.com (external link)) back-end application, but soon matured into a fully featured ecommerce framework.

AOT own several well know travel sites, both as direct to public and as agent only versions, and provided branded / white label sites to third parties.

Each site consists of XHTML pages that are processed through the front controller. The pages are parsed and propriety tags are replaced with iRes widgets. An iRes widget will typically generate XHTML to be inserted.

Some highlights of iRes

Support for both Australian and New Zealand locations
Location hierarchy allowing drill down selection
Property name select via AJAX
Online credit card payment through eNett and PayPal.
Pay later by account, credit card or Money Direct.
Google maps that dynamically adds markers via AJAX when panned.
Clustering of map markers
Support for accommodation, car hire, transfers and trips.
Support of multiple seasons, promotions, inclusions, packages.
Support for agent specific rates and commissions.
Saveable quote system allowing services to be added, amended, removed and booked at a later date.

Jack

Jack is an automatic booking system.

Every day a Travel Agent in Germany would login to the Jack system and upload a CSV file of bookings made in there system.

The application would parse the file and use the iRes XML API to generate AOT bookings in the Tourplan back-end.

When the process completed a report was generated showing completed bookings, bookings that had already been made during previous runs and bookings with inconsistent or missing information.

White Labels / Brands

The AOT Group was the launch partner of Holidays For Sale (www.holidaysforsale.com.au/ (external link)) a spin off from Chanel 9's travel TV show Getaway. For the first season all deals presented from the site where feed and booked through the iRes XML API.

Go Stay (www.gostay.com.au (external link)) was originally developed in conjunction with Sensis, it is now part of Big Pond Travel.

JPC Infonet

Bath.co.uk 2002 - 2006

Bath.co.uk (www.bath.co.uk (external link)) is a tourist portal for the city of Bath in England.

Bath.co.uk generated revenue from the placement of banner adverts and Single Page Entries.

This is an example of a Single Page Entries that I created, which as the name implies are single paged web sites and acts as advertising pages for shops, hotels and tourist attractions on the Bath.co.uk web site.

See the Apostrophe Single Page Entry at www.bath.co.uk/apostrophe/ (external link)

These are some examples of advert banners that I created.

Crimson Hotels 2005

This project consisted of a generic corporate site and 11 mini hotel specific sites.

The main site included a newsletter, special offers and careers section powered by JPC Infonet's in-house developed CMS system ContentWorx.

Crimson Hotels owned and operated hotels in the United Kingdom, Portugal and the United Arab Emirates. Each region had a gateway page with links to all the hotels in that area and a map showing the locations of the properties, that when hovered over displayed the appropriate contact information.

Each of the micro sites had a similar layout, but where colour coded. The main content (and images) where controlled by JPC Infonet's in-house developed CMS system ContentWorx. Each Hotel had its own Newsletter and Specials section.

UK Hotels
- Allesley Coventory
- Clarion Gatwick
- Comfort Harrow
- Comfort Heathrow
- Quality Heathrow
- Quality Reading
UAE Hotels
- Chelsea Hotel
- Chelsea Tower
- Sea View Hotel
Portugal
- Hotel Carvoeiro Sol
- Hotel Garbe

Western Event Hire 2003

Western Event Hire hired equipment for events in the South West of England.

The web site was a good example of JPC Infonet's in-house developed product catalogue / shopping cart system ProductWorx.

ProductWorx provided a drill down category system, including a free text search by code, name or description.

The search results page could be displayed as a plain list or tiled or thumbnails with images. See screen captures.

The Packing Supplier 2005

The Packing Supplier was an online shop selling packaging material such as bubble wrap, boxes and tape.

This web site used JPC Infonet's in-house developed ecommerce system ProductWorx. ProductWorx provided a drilldown product catalogue hierarchy, shopping cart, online payment via PayPal, WorldPay or Barclaycard.

File-It Direct 2003

File-It Direct was a joint venture by JPC Infonet and File-It to supply a one stop web site to sell office stationary and Internet solutions.

London & Country 2004/5

London & Country is a financial advisor specialising in mortgages.

As well as developing the web site for London & Country I designed and developed a white label system that allowed registered referrer companies to display selected pages from the London & Country site rebranded with their logo and corporate colours.

Roundstone Surgery Intranet 2003

The core of the Intranet site was a document management system.

On login on to the Intranet users where presented with a list of documents that they had not read, every document had to be acknowledged as having been read within 14 days or an e-mail was sent to the site administer and the person that uploaded the document.

The site also incorporated a small upcoming event CMS.

The Wiltshire Web 2002 - 2005

URL: www.wiltshire-web.co.uk (external link)

Portal web site for hotels, shops and businesses in the county of Wiltshire England. JPC Infonet operated the Wiltshire Web as a sister site to Bath.co.uk.

Hardback Books 2003

Hardback.com allowed members to register second hand books for sales.

The books where searchable by title, author, publisher, year published and by a predefined list of conditions.

Wessex Association of Chambers of Commerce 2005

This is a portal site for the Wessex Association of Chambers of Commerce.

It was powered by the JPC Infonet CMS ContentWorx and included an event calendar.

Quartley Hodges Hood 2006

Quartley Hodges Hood is a chartered architects and surveyors.

A unique feature of this site was the rendering of architecture using VRML in Internet Explorer.

Wiltshire Community Safety Partnerships 2003

The Wiltshire Community Safety Partnerships consisted of 4 local council sites with a central administration system based on JPC Infonet's ContentWorx CMS system.

Each site had a manageable template for its look and feel. All articles added required approval by a user with administration or reviewer privilege.

Wiltshire & Swindon Safety Cameras 2005

The Wiltshire & Swindon Safety Cameras site incorporated a custom document upload and management system.

TigerRedi

Nike Image Preview

In 2000 TigerRed the parent company of TigerRedi won the contract to supply Nike shops with branding and marketing materials, part of the requirement was to provide an online preview of connectional art.

Designer View
When a designer logged in, he / she was presented with a grid layout off the images that they had uploaded ordered by newest first. There where buttons to delete or amend the description. At the top of the page was the option to upload a new image (including appending notes).

Nike's View
The review editors at Nike each had a login account that showed then a grid view of uploaded images in newest order. Clicking the thumbnail displayed the full size image, along with all the previous comments. Adding a new comment would automatically e-mail that comment to the designer that had uploaded the image. If the editor of authorised they would have an Accept button, that acted as digital sign off that the art work was satisfactory.