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I’ve did three very different blogs for clients at the end of 2007.

East-West Dialogue – Under subcontract to graphics designer, Michael Pinto, of VM.com, I installed and configured this content management system for The East-West Center. It primarily serves as the online companion to the print version of the organization’s signature magazine, East-West Dialogue. The design requirements were very specific featuring a custom navigation menu and different sidebars for the index pages and post pages.

The Partnership For Prescription Assistance, Pennsylvania, blog. They client wanted a three column design with a Google Calendar. My favorite bit is the ShareThis wiggit attached to the end of each post.

Air Safety And Law is intended to serve as a forum for the legal community to discuss air travel safety and liability issues. I worked with my graphics designer friend, David Schiffer, who provided the header image and selected the theme from several sample templates I presented. This is a demo version on Wordpress.com which took me about an hour to create.

I’m the senior product developer for Smart Medical Consumer. Recently, I’ve adapted new styles and design elements from Advancity to unify and improve the site’s look and feel. I’ve also updated much of my perl cgi code making it more object oriented.

A lot of new features have been added to SmartMC including automatic alert messages with pop-up graphs that show how the the metics associated with one claim compare to other claims for the same patient, provider and insurance plan. The Edit interface has also been upgraded with AJAX driven drop-menus and auto-suggestion input fields.

Smart Medical Consumer

Smart Medical Consumer is a new Web-based service business conceived and designed by a remarkable person, Banu Özden, providing free health issue forums, resource directories, secure medical document storage and a sophisticated medical records manager.

I designed and programmed the records manager, MySMC, which was released this Spring in a limited, early beta version. MySMC is a LAMP application with HTML, CSS and AJAX, on the front, and a MySQL database with Perl CGI on the back. It manages health service provider invoices, insurance claim benefit statements and patient payment receipts.

MySMC features easy input and editing, strong searching and reporting, automatic error detections and comparison checks. Each registered MySMC user can define any number of patients making the system usable by individuals, families, organizations and companies.

Riverside Marketing Strategies

This is the website of a wonderful, online marketing consultant, Heidi Cohen. The design and layout was done by Michael Pinto of Very Memorable Media who provided a Photoshop file to work from. Ms. Cohen set precise standards for usability and searchability. The resulting collaboration resulted in a near perfect website.

Pass Open Records

This blog, subtitled: A Movement to Lift the Lid on Pennsylvania Government is an initiative of the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association. I did the blog installation and configuration using WordPress, adapting and modifying a third party theme, Misty Look, under contract to Howard Greenstein who provided the association with the online strategy and training to make them bloggers. The project was conceived and designed by BravoGroup, a specialist in government communications.

I’ve known Howard since the early days of Silicon Alley. We’ve worked together on several dot-org projects and it was a pleasure to finally work with him, B2B, on a project.