Portfolio: SpeedChoice
SpeedChoice was an ISP I worked for during and after college. I handled most of their internal web affairs, doing the bulk of site maintenance. Towards the end, Sprint bought the company to use our wireless bandwidth in the Phoenix and Detroit markets, and the pile of work I had to do kept getting smaller and smaller. This got boring and I eventually went freelance (read: had one small project and otherwise took a two month break from working).
SpeedChoice
HTML and graphics maintenance
The sales site of the ISP I worked for. We outsourced the design, but once it was finished, I was responsible for all alterations to and maintenance of it. This involved keeping our product information up to date, managing the section of press releases, and adding sections as needed. Adding sections was somewhat tricky, given that the main navigational design didn't allow for any sort of expansion. When I was asked to add some elements towards the bottom of the main page, I came up with the idea of a row of circle elements at the bottom, which complemented the page's color scheme and the circular rollovers in the center, and which would also allow for any future expansion, just by adding more elements to the row.
There were sections of this site that were available only to our VARs and retail partners. I was responsible for making sure that these were not publically viewable. We were running Apache on our webserver, so I used an .htaccess file and maintained the password list that would allow access to those who needed it.
SpeedChoice.net
http://www.speedchoice.net/ (screenshot)
HTML and graphics maintenance
This site was our customer retention site, available to our ISP customers only. Again, the design was outsourced, and I was responsible for most additions and maintenance. The top and left side portions of the site were Shockwave components; the top acted as the main site navigation, and the left side panel allowed the user to view live news feeds from a few of our content partners. I was responsible for updating the top navigational component with new graphics (the row of rectangles was scrollable and, when clicked, would open a new window to one of our content partners' sites), and negotiating content with partners that would upload information to our server. There was also the information in the main portion of the site, which I frequently kept updated and for which I occasionaly wrote copy.
As we only wanted SpeedChoice customers and employees to have access to this site, I set up the webserver to allow access to connection requests coming from IP addresses in the groups allocated to our customers and internal networks.
SpeedChoice Corporate Newsletter
HTML and graphics, maintenance
As part of an effort to keep several offices informed of what the others were doing, we started a bimonthly newsletter page on our company intranet. Working with marketing communications, I designed the layout of the newsletter, as well as assisted in editing. For the final issue, I put together an interactive photo album of some of our employees from each office, displayed in a pop-up window that let our readers flip through it one photo at a time, or use the thumbnail pictures in the newsletter to skip around.
SpeedChoice Telecommuting Program
http://telecommuter.speedchoice.com/ (defunct)
HTML and graphics maintenance
This was a site I put together for our sales group in Phoenix. SpeedChoice had started to offer a special telecommuting program to certain organizations, and they needed a site that would present program options as well as allow program participants to place order requests. I only had a few days to do the whole site, so I kept it simple, taking graphic elements from our main site, as well as keeping a similar layout. The front page would let users choose which program they were a part of (only the Arizona State University program was finalized during my time with SpeedChoice), and they could then fill out a form to give ordering information. I also wrote a Perl script that did several things with that data: it created another page, posted to a password protected area, that contained their ordering info in the form of a contract that could be printed out and brought along during installation; it would email one of the sales engineers to alert him that an order request had been placed, along with a link to the page that had been crea ted; and it would take certain info and place it into a comma delimited file that the sales engineers could download and import into Excel to create a spreadsheet of all customers.
DigitalChoice TV
HTML and graphics, maintenance
The sales site for SpeedChoice's short-lived digital cable television product. I was responsible for site maintenance, and also fleshed out some of the copy in sections that weren't completed by the firm that created the site. I also had to tweak some JavaScript that ran the order form, since there was an error in its methods of computing the final price for the services requested.