Skills: PHP

This page has a few profiles and samples of some projects I have participated in.

Zero Tolerance Gaming

Zero Tolerance Gaming is an online community of computer gamers from all corners of the world.

This project started as a complete rewrite of the base code, to convert it to more efficient methods. During the conversion, a whopping 67% of code was removed from the project, resulting in a much faster loading website.

Since starting on the project, many new features have been added to this website, to improve it dramatically from what it used to be. As part of the Gallery of images, jQuery Lightbox was integrated to making viewing the images a much more pleasant experience. The layout is completely revamped, resulting in a much more functional and aesthetically pleasing place to be.

The most recent contracted upgrade was of the private message system. This system was overhauled to use AJAX-based methods to make navigating through messages much easier. Before the upgrade, marking a message, reading, and deleting were all things that you had to be sent to another page to complete. Now, all those tasks can be completed on the same page, meaning a better experience for the user, as well as a much lighter traffic load for that system then there used to be.




House Poker Stats

House Poker Stats is a poker tournament statistics tracking tool. It is designed to enable anyone to set up and run their own poker tournaments easily.

This website is designed with many complicated elements, including Flash and JavaScript. The entire website is database-driven using advanced PHP scripting, allowing most pages to be generated on the fly. There are a few JavaScript elements that allow users to interact with the website in interesting ways.

One of the more interesting aspects of this project for me was theme design. All the color themes were designed by hand, and some took hours. The best one that was created is Neo-noir, a black and red theme inspired by the movie Sin City.


Nature-n-Focus

Nature n Focus is a website for the ex-hockey player turned photographer Bob Lemieux.

The site was created to best show his works, with the use of Flash for an image viewer as well as database driven image galleries. The news on the site is driven by an integrated version of Wordpress, the popular blog software. Advanced JavaScript is also used to provide an innovative method of viewing images.