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MailChimp, a mass emailing solution, offers an API so that you can use to create native, fully customized sign-up forms on a website. I'm using this API with a little PHP for a client's newsletter sign up. Of course, MailChimp also offers their basic copy-and-paste forms as well as MailChimp-hosted forms, but you can't achieve […]
Launched a new version of the NDTAC's Fast Facts website, which presents data and data visualizations of State education data from the Federal Title I, Part D program for youth who are neglected, delinquent, or at risk. The Section 508 compliant website is built on a MySQL database, and uses PHP to retrieve the data […]
Began the planning phase for the revamped section of a Federal program's website. The new section will dynamically produce annual and longitudinal graphs and tables based on state reported data. The current plan is to use PHP, mySQL, and the Google Charts API.
I finally rolled out a new version of my content/events management system, which I now call CMSense. The update includes more than 100 functional, usability, and security enhancements. The new interface utilizes modest jQuery animations and Ajax. A ton of changes were made under the hood too, making developer customization super simple. Here's just a […]
I'm redesiging the dashboard of my CMS so that after login, the user is immediately presented with real-time stats and analytics from their website. I'm also allowing the user to select a month from the previous year to see the same stats. Provided statistics on the dashboard include number of visits, new visits, number of […]
The AddThis bookmark and sharing widget isn't 508 compliant out of the box, and using their suggested solutions provides a very reduced service. To address the issue, I implemeted a fully 508 compliant version of their widget by working with some customized CSS and javascript code. Just got the repot back from the government compliance […]
Added Twitter API functionality to my website via PHP’s Twitter class. My project updates are now automatically tweeted via my custom content management system.