Scranton Wilke Barre Direct
Scranton Wilkes Barre Direct is an online directory for businesses in the area. Developed with my friend Dan, who did the design work, we needed to create something scalable and easy to use. They wanted featured ads, regular ads, 160+ categories and many ways to organize them. We created a most popular categories section on the homepage (defined by the owners of the site), wrote a search, and I defined the database so that all ads were added into a main and sub location.
The site is also (for the most part) completely driven by a custom made Content Management System. This system allows the owners to ad, edit and delete ads, business, categories, events and locations. They also control if sites are displayed on the site and if they are featured ads, which show up in special places on the site. Finally, they can make categories appear on the home page. All in all this was a good project that allowed me to do some cool new things programming wise. With 700+ lines of functions alone, there is a lot going on in the background that I feel is pretty transparent to the user.
