Xiaan Design: Blog » Portfolio http://xiaan.com/blog UX design and RIA development in the post-Web 2.0 world. Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:44:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Portfolio: Nilex Construction http://xiaan.com/blog/2007/06/27/portfolio-nilex-construction/ http://xiaan.com/blog/2007/06/27/portfolio-nilex-construction/#comments Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:35:21 +0000 Christiaan van Woudenberg http://xiaan.com/blog/index.php/2007/06/29/portfolio-nilex-construction/ Nilex Construction is a world leader in specialty construction; they came to Xiaan Design requesting a web site redesign that reflected their position in the industry. Xiaan Design created a vibrant, photo-rich site with Joomla 1.0 that educates engineers about prefabricated vertical wick drains and more. Be sure to check out the project map to see how Google Maps were integrated into the site.

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Xiaan Design created a comprehensive web-based courseware application based on Joomla 1.0, including:

  • A complete data migration strategy and transformation from a legacy MySQL database.
  • A course proximity search algorithm based on zip code to find nearby courses.
  • An embedded statistics and analytics package to display metrics by location, course, instructor, and student type.
  • Course payment and credit card processing with Authorize.net.

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