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Websites 2003-2007

This is a list of the major projects undertaken in the last four years.

 

2003:

Leaside Business Park Association

Basic CMS system for managing news stories and listing member companies. Re-wrote in 2006 to include a new map system using Google's mapping technology and performance improvements.

Work began on Dine.TO using a database-driven design that stored web pages inside a database instead of seperate files, along with a ColdFusion-style template system to allow non-developers to create database-driven components.

2005:

Dine.TO

A first-generation restaurant/entertainment portal for the city of Toronto, Canada. Major features included a then-new searching system designed specifically to search restaurant listings, a mobile (WAP 2.0) version accessible on mobile phones and a customer management (myCP) that allowed restaurant clients to collect statistics on visitors to their profile and send e-mails to members. Other features added later included: sending SMS messages to other users and e-mailing restaurant profiles.

Lounge666

A night-life/social networking/dating website that intended to let visitors search other members' profiles, exchange messages, view galleries, sign-up for club promotions and join VIP lists. Features included a mobile/WAP2.0 version of the site that allowed checking who was on-line at the time and forum post updates.

YYZtech.ca

A news website covering technology issues in the Toronto area. Features included a front-page system that picked topics based on the number of stories and time since-last-update in a category to only display topics where there was new or lots of content available.

2006:

EdmontonDining.com

A customized version of Dine.TO licenced to a company in Edmonton, Alberta.

Late 2006: SimcoeDining.com

A listing service for restaurants in the area of Simcoe Country (located in southern Ontario, roughly an hour's drive north of Toronto, Canada).

Summer 2007:

Halifax-Restaurants.com

Searchable guide to restaurants in the Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada area. Innovations included a natural search (e.g. "pub on barrington") based on "tagging" places with various keywords.

Dine.TO API:

First developed for for EyeWeekly's website, this allowed 3rd-party websites to perform searches on Dine.TO's database and display them as part of their own site, see: restaurantstoronto.com for an example.

Dine.TO 2:

A re-write of the original Dine.TO website started in 2003. Features included a new searching system with a more advanced tagging system than used in Halifax-Restaurants.com. Essentially this builds on the lessons learned since the 2005 release of Dine.TO.

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