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Veo.com
URL: www.veo.com
Veo.com was badly built from the start, and had poor visibility on the internet. It was a largely static site that didn't do much for the company.
The first phase involved cleaning up the look and feel, optimizing the pages for performance and improve the online store. It also involved active promotion of the site through search engine placements and email marketing campaigns.
Veo started seeing a surge in traffic and online orders. Now the focus is to redesign the site, improving the site content, enhancing the online store thus creating a better user experience.
Wearnes Technology
URL: www.wearnestech.com
Wearnes Technology wanted its corporate web site to effectively describe its different business areas and also act as a portal to its many subsidiaries/associated companies. WT wanted a quick solution where content could be updated easily, yet they did not require a full content management solution nor a database.
Hence, a server-side PHP and XML combination was used to get the site done in record time. The end result was a corporate web site that was clean and neatly organized, easily updateable and performed very well.
Chrontel Intranet
URL: none, internal site
Chrontel required a feature packed intranet application that allowed content, staff, document and support requests management. And one of their major requirements was that it be done using Microsoft technology.
A .NET/SQL Server 2000 solution was proposed, which developed into a scalable, powerful, secure application that could be utilised and customised to fit many different business requirements without any further code modifications.
Westpac Home Loan Center
URL: www.westpac.com.au
Westpac's Home Loan Centre consists of a series of pages with home loan information and a loan calculator. When I joined the web team, the site was already in production and implemented earlier by EDS. There was also another extranet application called IntroducerNet which was available only to WBC's mortgage brokers.
Apart from supporting and maintaining both sites, I also enhanced IntroducerNet to automatically page or sms brokers whose clients had their loans approved. The site ran on Netdynamics, an application server that used the Java language to do its sever-side processing. It talked to the mortgage database via BEA's Tuxedo platform.
Powerserve
Powerserve needed its existing corporate web site overhauled. My team was instructed to use Bermuda, Powerserve's existing ASP/COM/SQL Server content management system that was developed in-house. The idea was to provide a secure management interface to manage the content of the public web site.
We didn't like how the old version worked and its lack of functionality so we recoded about 80% of it and introduced many new features, transforming it into a very powerful solution. Other consultants in the company were able to reuse and customise this system for a lot of Powerserve's other clients quickly and efficiently.
Cable & Wireless
URL: off-line
My first project with Cable & Wireless Optus in Australia involved localising 2 sites developed using ASP/SQL Server in their US office. The 2 sites promoted a-Services, an ASP service that CW was offering to companies.
After the first phase of the project, I started coding new functionality for all of CW's sites in the US and UK as well. I was also involved with configuring and tuning their web servers at their data centers in Sydney. Later, a new site was introduced for training purposes. I produced several of the modules in this training site.
Total Super
URL: off-line
Total Super was my first project at Powerserve. The client (The Strategist Group) needed an e-Commerce site where it could register new members and give them restricted access to members-only content. Members of the site could also preview video clips and subsequently order the actual videos/packages online.
Total Super was developed using ASP/SQL Server.
Web Auditing Tool
URL: none, internal web application
The Web Auditing Tool was used by Powerserve to introduce a new web site review/critique service. The web site critique team wanted a web based application where they could evaluate a web site, and enter information into the database over time. They also wanted a mechanism to edit and approve content and only upon final approval could a report be automatically generated.
The web application was developed with ASP/COM/SQL Server and the generated reports were in PDF format.
Wearnes Ventures
URL: off-line
I was hired by Wearnes Technology as a part-time consultant to identify and pursue any investment opportunities in Australia.
One of my tasks was to launch a web site to describe the company, the investment process, and to get into contact with interested parties. The site was static and done with ASP.
Far Road
URL: off-line
Far Road, a dot com startup, was a client of Powerserve. A big team was sent in to develop a web site that could collect information from its visitors. Based on their personalities, the site would recommend different holiday destination packages.
The technology used was a combination of ASP/SQL Server/XML.
I wrote the specs for one of their search engines and started coding it for a couple of weeks but I left Powerserve soon after. Far Road ceased operating so the site was never launched.
Jasonwong.net
URL: www.jasonwong.net
I tell everyone that Jason Wong is one of the hottest web developers in the industry but no one believes me. So I decided to launch my own web site to show how good a site can be if it is done my way and done by me.
jasonwong.net was developed with server-side PHP/XML. This site demonstrates what a good web site should consist of... excellent content, neat/clean layout, good performance, a consistent color scheme, effective navigation system, cross-linking and photos of a "good looking" Chinese guy.
I am especially proud of the photo gallery section, where I made superb use of a combination of PHP/XML/DHTML/CSS & JavaScript to dynamically add new photo galleries with ease. The photo gallery pages themselves appear to be Flash-like in nature, and the photos are only downloaded as the user clicks on them.
However, even after all my efforts no one thinks I'm hot.
Michael & Ellisser
URL: www.jasonwong.net/michaelandellisser
This web site was a wedding gift to my friends Michael and Ellisser. It's a static site developed in PHP.
I learnt a valuable lesson from this project.
If you create a wedding site for free, a lot of couples will want you to do one for them too.
And the best way to get rid of them is to start charging!
Happeninglah.com
URL: off-line
Happeninglah.com was a web site I developed in ASP/SQL Server that was a members-only site meant for people who played roller hockey on Saturday afternoons in Sydney.
It had content management, membership management, good security and personalisation built-in. It also had 2 unique features. Each member could upload photos into their own galleries, give them brief introductions and manage the order in which they appear. Members could also use the site to create an event/outing and invite other members to rsvp.
Unfortunately, lack of member interest and moral support led to this site's demise.
Laksa
URL: not yet ready
Laksa is a personal project that I work on every now and then. It's a web based content management system that was originally developed entirely in J2EE running on BEA WebLogic. But then I decided to re-develop it in .Net.
It boasts a lot of secure, powerful, flexible and customisable features in a very user-friendly and straightforward interface.
I have no idea what I will do with it once it has been completed.