Jupiter Brain

This project was a ground up replacement for a site apparently built in the late 1940's. We've covered it all with this project -- features include rich meta-data, clean separation of content and presentation, an elegant and intuitive web-based interface for administration, complete e-commerce support, a career portal, news & event modules, global site search, user account management, multi-user authoring with permissions, and the list goes on.

To support the site, we've built a clustered Linux server configuration that features real-time server synchronizing and floating IP automatic fail-over.

Technologies Django, JavaScript, Python, XHTML, CSS

This website is part of a viral campaign, where somewhere between 400 and 1000 beach balls were distributed across NYC by being left inside of cabs for riders to puzzle over. Each beach ball had a printed tag containing the web address and password required to enter, and visitors who log in can submit their personal story (via text, image, or video) of how far they would go for something or someone they care about. Each submission goes into a moderation tank, and once approved the submissions merge into the collage of submissions made by other visitors.

Powering the site is a custom PHP+MySQL management system, atop of a built to order LAMP) server. All presentation layers were built with standards-compliant XHTML (1.0 Strict), CSS3 (with graceful degradation), and heavy use of the Prototype JavaScript framework combined with the script.aculo.us Web 2.0 effects library. The site consists primarily of one actual page with all interaction being done using a lightbox style overlay combined with AJAX.

Password: fortruelove

Technologies JavaScript, PHP, XHTML, CSS