[TYPO3-UG US] Another Recent Site (CSLR)

[Zachary Davis, Cast Iron Coding LLC]

Thanks, Ben - and nice to hear from you; been a long time :)

Zach


ben van 't ende [netcreators] wrote:
> Hey Marc,
> 
> Well done! Fully XHTML strict 1.1. Compliments. I also really like Zach's site.
> Very nice.
> 
> gRTz
> 
> ben
> 
> 
> Marc Infield wrote:
>> Nice design and the publication piece is impressive. The "find more
>> publications" pop-up tag search is a nice touch. We worked on a TYPO3
>> based research document database a few years back, it didn't have 700
>> entries, but it gives me an appreciation for what you have done.
>>
>> We'll throw a recent site in the ring
>> http://www.cmgsite.com/
>>
>> -marc
>> _______________________________________________________
>> Marc Infield                        <marc at InfieldDesign.com>
>> Infield Design
>> 2339 3rd Street, unit 45
>> San Francisco, CA  94107
>>
>> On Jun 15, 2009, at 6:40 AM, Zachary Davis, Cast Iron Coding LLC wrote:
>>
>>> I like Ron's idea of posting our recent work here, and I'm going to
>>> follow his lead. I'm happy to say that after a three month effort, we
>>> launched a new site for Emory School of Law's "Center for the Study of
>>> Law and Religion" on Friday.
>>>
>>> http://cslr.law.emory.edu
>>>
>>> The site site is built around a number of custom database records that
>>> store data about publications, people, research projects, events,
>>> webcasts, and news. We wrote a lightweight MVC framework within TYPO3
>>> for this site, mainly because extbase wasn't stable enough when we
>>> started on it, and there are about 30 distinct views and about 10
>>> distinct models. The framework we wrote is carefully integrated into
>>> TYPO3 and follows regular TYPO3 conventions. We wrote it because budget
>>> was a little bit tight on this project, and we needed a way to roll out
>>> new views for the core models quickly and efficiently.
>>>
>>> There are a little over 700 publications in the database, which are
>>> tagged and searchable. To get a sense of how interconnected the
>>> different records are, I'd encourage you to click around in the people,
>>> publications, research, and events sections.
>>>
>>> We took this project from discovery to design and implementation - we
>>> often don't do the design in-house, but we did on this one, and I'm
>>> pretty happy with the results.
>>>
>>> best,
>>> Zach
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> -----------------------------
>>> Zach Davis
>>> Cast Iron Coding - Portland OR, USA
>>> http://www.castironcoding.com
>>> zach at castironcoding.com
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Zach Davis
Cast Iron Coding - Portland OR, USA
http://www.castironcoding.com
zach at castironcoding.com