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Shop Pepperell

ShopPepperell.com is a marketing web site promoting local businesses and also allows those businesses to easily communicate amongst themselves and to their customers. Businesses can subscribe with recurring payments, create profiles, and post articles, events, and help wanted ads, while customers can post testimonials.

This web site is backed by a robust content management system so that the client can easily change content, post news articles of interest, and communicate with subscribers. An administrative interface provides updates on new subscribers, businesses, and lists new content for approval.

Features:
- Intuitive user interface
- Integrated content management system
- Recurring subscription billing
- AJAX interface that gracefully degrades
- jQuery-based Javascript design
- Promotional email integration

Project completed in 2009

TopHarbor.com

TopHarbor.com is a large, complex social networking site for folks who are serious about having fun and making better connections with people who share their interests. Think of it as LinkedIn for the rest of your life. People can create profiles of each of their activities, listing the items they use, the clubs they belong to, services and stores they use, and the locations where they do their activities.

Using this information, TopHarbor.com builds communities based on each of these entries, so folks can see who enjoys their activities the same way they do. The site includes Q&A, reviews of items and services, geo-location based on postal code or geographical feature, photo galleries, and events.

Features:
- Extensive memcache, page, fragment caching for fast response times
- Amazon S3 image storage and content delivery
- No shared storage for high horizontal scalability
- Geological tagging of addresses and locations
- Caching of third-party RSS feeds for better performance
- AJAX interface that gracefully degrades
- Complex database object and graph theory relationships
- Prototype/Scriptaculous-based Javascript design
- Drag and drop interface
- Multiple RSS feeds
- RSS feed aggregator for hundreds of feeds
- Promotional email integration
- Clean, simple design

Project completed in 2008

Town of Groton, MA

This is the official web site for the Town of Groton, Massachusetts and is a major communication channel between town government and the citizens of Groton. The site provides detailed information about each board, committee, and office in town as well as a listing of all registered businesses.

The most popular feature is the Town Crier, which allows any citizen to post news and events (subject to review) on the site, making the content both timely and very dynamic.

This site was immediately recognized as a top municipal web site by the Massachusetts Municipal Association (MMA) when it was launched and CEO Dave Hill presented “Managing Your Web Presence” at the annual MMA convention. The web site also received an eGovernment award presented at the Massachusetts State House.

Features:
- Java-based web site with custom object-relational mapping code
- Winner of multiple awards
- Custom content management system
- XML/XSLT design, separating content from presentation
- Thousands of pages of content
- Custom site presentation for holidays and special days
- Section 508 compliance
- RSS feeds
- Online payment system

Project completed in 2004