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Cultural Database Website
Background
- Client provides an online community guide to cross-cultural etiquette & understanding.
- Main pain areas were to create a interactive, informational and entertaining portal for travelers, business people and students to learn and understand the cross-cultural information about every country in the world.
Scope
- Build from the ground up a database website with flexible, modular architecture that is SEO friendly.
- Innovative approach to involve students, travelers, and business people.
- Provide the ability to control the content and the user access rights to the site.
Technology
- Utilized PHP/MYSQL on Linux with Apache.
- MVC framework designed to provide better separation of different layers.
- Fully object oriented code with PHP5.
Solution
- 100% CMS controlled content, look and feel and access rights.
- Created a more user friendly and flexible system.
- Developed a portal that is scalable to numerous other concurrent features.
- Provided modular website making it easier to add features at a later date
- Created interactivity through forums, bulletin boards, quizzes, submission of site content, custom flash country maps.