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Microwaves101.com
Description:

Microwaves101.com - PC Mojo Client Sites
www.microwaves101.com

 

Engineering information site to offer reference and sourcing information particularly to microwave engineers.

  Purpose:
 

Web site designed to be client maintainable as far as content is concerned with the ability to sell and track ad and banner space contextually throughout the site. Additionally, there is a 'microwave encyclopedia' maintained by the client in hypertext format. This is very cool.

Budget:

PC Mojo doesn't disclose budgets except in very general terms. This web site was published for under $3,000.

Web Site Size:

Medium. This site has the potential to grow into a very large site with the flexibility of the client administration database and considering the possible activity on the bulletin boards.

The PC Mojo Solution:
All original graphics were designed with particular attention paid to being fast loading. Because of this, we used a very limited palette of red, white, gray and black. With only four basic colors, we were able to optimize the graphics very nicely using gif files, keeping the total graphics loading overhead extremely low.
The site is hosted on a on a Windows 2000 server. The back end database is currently Microsoft Access due to be scaled up to SQL Server when the size of the database grows to a point where the performance may degrade. While the site files themselves are used mostly for indexing of the encyclopedia and maintenance of the banner ad rotation system, the bulletin boards database has the potential to grow very rapidly beyond the capabilities of Access.

The microwaves encyclopedia is maintained in two steps. PC Mojo provided the client with a simple custom designed template with all the navigational and programming elements isolated, all they need to do is add the body text, header text, and html meta description using Macromedia Dreamweaver. Since the site was developed using a combination of Cold Fusion and Macromedia Dreamweaver UltraDev, we are able to make sitewide changes at any time and simply provide a new compy of the template to the client by publishing it to the site.

Once the encyclopedia page is written and published to the site, one more step is required to add the correct entry in the searchable encyclopedia index. This is accomplished using one simple form with four fields. Once that is done, the searchable index is re-indexed automatically using the Cold Fusion/Verity search engine.

The banner ad rotation system is extremely simple to use (although not activated as of 07/23/2001). Each page within the site can have contextual ads on them at the discretion of the client. This increases the flexibility of the site and will have a dramatic effect on their return on investment (ROI) for the site. The back end processing for this application was also developed using Cold Fusion and an Access database.
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