A Few Selected Live Websites Examples
Since 2002 when started to work as web developer, I got to work on dozens of projects. In most of cases I was working on a project solely (as a single programmer).
In other cases, there was a team of developers for me to cooperate with.
Some of projects were started from ground up. Others were initially started by others developers and then fully reworked by me.
Some of websites weren't reworked fully and took only a few hours of work from my side to accomplish task needed to be done.
Some other ones which were reworked in a few months and successfully went live, then took years of ongoing development process to meet new requirements and to implement new ideas.
So during those years there was done wide range of programming works of any kind.
Unfortunately many of big and important projects do not longer exist on the web (firms changed owners and web developers and websites, went out of business etc., 22 years is a big time range).
For the portfolio page I have selected only a few projects which I built from ground up.
(Web design used in the projects was either purchased by clients from 3rd party professional web design studios either created by clients on their own).
This is the oldest and the biggest project, started and went live in 2003 originally driven by Allaire ColdFusion 5 yet. Ongoing. Big and busy online store with 100000+ products in database.
Aside of all regular e-commerce functionality it includes many custom scripts like import/export data, integration with eBay (MIP), Walmart, Google Shopping and other partners, Facebook chat for customer support,
database utilities, a bunch of scheduled scripts and so on.
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Technologies: Coldfusion 2016, MS SQL 2014 Database, jQuery, HTML 5, Responsive CSS, XML, PHP 7, SOAP Webservices
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APIs: Paypal, BrainTree, eBay, Amazon, Walmart, ApplePay, Google Shopping, Google Microdata Markup, FedEx, UPS, Facebook
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Live Since: 2003
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Location: NC, United States
PROJECT DETAILS
Small news and newsletters website. Started to work on it in 2006, fully reworked since then. The site uses instant static HTML pages generated by ColdFusion from database content and Solr-based search.
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Technologies: Coldfusion, MS SQL Database, jQuery, HTML 5, Responsive CSS
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Live Since: 1999 (under CF-Works maintenance since 2006)
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Location: CA, United States
PROJECT DETAILS
One of the oldest projects, started and went live in 2006. The goal of the site is to stream and to sell audio samples.
It was not upgraded for a while though and at the moment is waiting for updates to start to rework CSS to responsive and to HTML 5.
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Technologies: Coldfusion, MySQL Database
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Live Since: 2006
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Location: CA, United States
PROJECT DETAILS
Online audio library for blind people.
Rather simple PHP-based website but it is long-living.
Web design: Trio Interactive
Programming: CF-Works
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Technologies: PHP + MySQL
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Live Since: 2008
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Location: South Africa
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The site uses ColdFusion to generate instant static HTML pages with SEO-friendly URLs which are exposed to users and search engines.
(Instead of using URL rewrite approach).
Static HTML pages are fast and don't load ColdFusion application server and database.
ColdFusion engine remains behind the scenes and rebuilds pages on the fly if necessary only when a product goes out of stock due to new order paid or a product was added/updated from admin interface.
Uses a number of IIS URL Rewrite rules as well to hide html/cfm extentions, to redirect from non-https to https etc.
Runs a bunch of admin scheduled scripts / utilities to talk with partners web services and to perform other tasks and a number of diverse reports.
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Sophisticated Solr-based public search, also no load on database;
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Works with (relatively) big data. Weekly generates XML data feeds for Google Shopping and automatically uploads them via ftp into Google merchant account.
Nightly generates XML data feeds for suppliers/partners (like Walmart) and auto-uploads them via sftp. Uses Google Microdata Markup;
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The website is running a number of scheduled tasks to automate website operating as fully as possible;
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Talks via web to a number of external websites (using XML, WDDX) like suppliers/partners' sites;
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Uses Paypal, BrainTree, ApplePay, Amazon payment APIs, eBay and Walmart integration, UPS and Fedex shipping API, Google Shopping, BestBuy API for supplier integration;
supports credit cards, Paypal Express Checkout, Amazon and ApplePay payment methods.
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PHP 7 is used for integration with BrainTree, Amazon, Walmart and ApplePay SDK + to connect to external SOAP webservice which ColdFusion can not connect to, like FedEx + to watermark uploaded images by PHP GD2 library.
(Also to run WordPress blog on it's own separate MySql database.)
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The site uses ColdFusion to generate instant static HTML pages with SEO-friendly URLs which are exposed to users and search engines. (Instead of using URL rewrite approach).
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Solr-based public and admin search.
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The site uses ColdFusion and MySQL database.
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Also some Flash forms like this one.
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In past it was using true secure media streaming via 3rd party media streaming service, then I reworked it to use pseudo-streaming to minimize expenses.