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Illustration Works Web Site - Stock Art & Illustration

Illustration Works, Inc.
Illustration Works provides both rights-protected and royalty-free stock art and illustration to designers serving countless industries around the world. Their Web site provides a means for customers to browse imagery, purchase that imagery, and immediately download it for use in their marketing and advertising campaigns.

Notable functionality of this site includes a sophisticated 'price calculator' which determines the price at which an image should be sold based on various specifications provided by the customer. Customers can also save images of interest to 'lightboxes' which can be referenced or purchased at a later date.

Technologies used:

Front-End: HTML/DHTML/JavaScript, jQuery
Back-End: PHP, MySQL, Apache, Postfix Mail Transfer Agent

Queerstock Web Site - Stock Photography & Illustration

Queerstock, Inc.
Queerstock is a sister company to Illustration Works and provides both rights-protected and royalty-free stock photography and illustration to designers serving gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered industries around the world. Their Web site provides a means for customers to browse imagery, purchase that imagery, and immediately download it for use in their marketing and advertising campaigns.

Notable functionality of this site includes a sophisticated 'price calculator' which determines the price at which an image should be sold based on various specifications provided by the customer. Customers can also save images of interest to 'lightboxes' which can be referenced or purchased at a later date.

Technologies used:

Front-End: HTML/DHTML/JavaScript, jQuery
Back-End: PHP, MySQL, Apache, Postfix Mail Transfer Agent

Team Cowboy - A Sports Team Management & Collaboration Tool

Team Cowboy is a free service that helps sports and activity teams collaborate online. It integrates core tasks such as roster, schedule management, and general team communication with other management tasks such as tracking attendance, team payments, and gathering information from teams via surveys. Team Cowboy was custom built from the ground up and serves thousands of users with reach across the United States and Europe.

Technologies used:

Front-End: HTML/DHTML/JavaScript, jQuery
Back-End: PHP, MySQL, Apache, Postfix Mail Transfer Agent

Whidbey-SeaTac Shuttle - Customer Web Site and Internal Reservations System

SeaTac Shuttle, LLC
Safari Computer Systems did complete design for the customer-facing Web site as well as the 'Dispatch Console', an internal reservations booking, scheduling, and reporting system.

View a screenshot of the Dispatch Console

Technologies used:

Front-End: HTML/DHTML/JavaScript, jQuery
Back-End: PHP, MySQL, Apache, Postfix Mail Transfer Agent

PIXELFire/JVC - JVC Times Square New Year's 2009

PIXELFire, Inc.
PIXELFire retained Safari Computer systems to build a custom software and server infrastructure for its client, JVC Americas, Inc.

JVC requested a system in which visitors to Times Square in New York City could submit cell phone photos to a special e-mail address, and subsequently, the photos would then appear on the recently-installed high-definition JVC screen in Times Square.

Safari Computer systems performed a custom operating system installation on a dedicated server which then ran a custom Web-based photo approval and authoring system. This system accepted photos that were sent in, approved the photos, and served as a server for the Flash routine that ultimately drove the display of the screen in Times Square.

Technologies used:

Front-End: HTML/DHTML/JavaScript, jQuery
Back-End: Debian Linux, PHP, MySQL, Apache, Postfix Mail Transfer Agent

Reel Grrls - Drupal Implementation

Reel Grrls empowers young women from diverse communities to realize their power, talent, and influence through media production.

Safari Computer Systems was brought on board to implemented 'Lucia', a no-nonsense 'function over form' customized Drupal installation for internal information tracking and reporting. In addition to installing and configuring the Drupal installation, Safari Computer Systems assisted in information architecture, ensuring that information for parties such as partners, donors, and participants were all able to be reported on as a whole.

Technologies used:

Front-End: HTML/DHTML/JavaScript
Back-End: Debian Linux, Drupal, PHP, MySQL, Apache

Mercent Corporate Web Site & Mercent Retail Customer Portal

Mercent Corporation
Mercent provides online marketing technology and services to help retail merchants optimize performance across online marketing channels. Mercent's on-demand platform, Mercent Retail, connects existing retail management systems and The Mercent Shopping Network, a network of more than 50 online shopping destinations including transactional marketplaces.

Safari Computer Systems services for this client include the front-end and back-end development of the corporate Web site, as well as core user interface design and development of the Mercent Retail customer portal (not pictured).

Technologies used:

Front-End: HTML/DHTML/JavaScript
Back-End: ASP.Net, C#, SQL Server, IIS

Illustration Works/Queerstock Web Studio - Internal and partner collaboration tool

Illustration Works, Inc. & Queerstock, Inc.
Illustration Works/Queerstock Web Studio serves as an internal sales and reporting tool for staff as well as an extranet tool to facilitate submissions of new content by artists and keywording of new imagery content.

The Web Studio was custom-built to serve the detailed needs of the client.

Technologies used:

Front-End: HTML/DHTML/JavaScript, jQuery
Back-End: PHP, MySQL, Apache