Dec 27
John DonovanClient News, Company News
AJAX, Custom App, hosting, Javascript, jQuery, mySQL, Object-Oriented, PHP
We’ve just delivered an interesting project that brought a wide variety of technologies and techniques together to create a custom application for Midas Recovery Services. Midas works with insurance companies and other health care providers to recover expenses associated with Worker’s Compensation cases and has been using an aging FoxPro database for the past 15 years to manage their business.
Our system collects data about every Worker’s Comp case filed in California, then looks for matches against a table of over 3 million client members. An easy-to-use AJAX user-interface provides information about each case, as well as complete case management and activity tracking tools. Midas has seen processing times go from several hours with the old system to under 1 minute with our optimized mySQL database and object-oriented PHP code. DCP Partners is hosting the application and providing on-going administrative / management services.
Initial response from Midas has been very positive, as they see: significant improvements in their ability to provide service to their clients, increased efficiency of their staff, the security of hosting their core business application in a managed datacenter, and the strength of a solid technology foundation on-which to grown their business. Next on the list – a new public-facing website.
Nov 23
John DonovanClient News, Company News
Customized Theme, SEO, Wordpress
When Mark Chapman at Illumination Systems Inc found that his SEO results were much less than expected – he asked us to look at the design of the site he had just paid to have developed. What we found were poorly designed content structure, missing elements, and static meta tags. Additions or edits to the content required hardcoding HTML … and lots of FTP back-and-forth. Sadly, this happens all too often when using a website-mill developer.
We were able to move his content and site design into a WordPress 3.2 platform and open a whole new world of easy-to-use content management, with powerful SEO tools that provide content-specific titles, descriptions, and keywords … using WordPress and the Genesis framework.
Content is still being defined and the site design will be refined over time – but Illumination Systems is now on a solid foundation for building their internet presence.
Sep 12
John DonovanClient News, Company News
Custom Plugins, Customized Theme, Genesis, Wordpress
Another site we’re proud to announce is the new site for Laverty Chacón Commercial Real Estate in the Sacramento area. This was another collaborative project with Nicole Bratt of Rock+Feather Creative in San Francisco, who was responsible for the fantastic graphical design. Lisa Yaple did the content editing.
The site is built on a WordPress 3.2 platform, using the Genesis Framework as our foundation. There was a fair amount of custom code written (Google Map and custom data element ‘shortcodes’ and plugins, custom taxonomy, conditional menu selection, etc) to provide Laverty Chacón with the look, features, and functionality they wanted. In the end, they were very happy with the result and I think they have a great looking site that is easy to use and maintain … and provides their clients with a site where it is easy to find what they’re looking for.
Laverty Chacón has also chosen DCP Partners to provide their fully-managed hosting and system administration services.
May 22
John DonovanClient News, Company News
Custom Plugins, Customized Theme, Genesis, Wordpress
We’re very happy to announce the release of a new site for Adaptive Business Solutions. The site was done in partnership with Nicole Bratt of Rock+Feather Creative in San Francisco. Nicole is a gifted graphics designer and has created another fantastic site, which is built on WordPress 3.x and the Genesis Framework. The team at Adaptive specialize in helping companies maximize value by teaching them how to leverage Lean and Six Sigma principles.
Please stop by the site and have a look around.
In addition to doing the development and implementation of the site, Adaptive has selected DCP Partners to provide fully-managed hosting services.
Apr 15
John DonovanClient News, Company News
administrator, Customized Template, e-commerce, hosting, Zen Cart
We’re happy to announce a new online store for The Symonds Group’s Bandvideos.com. Designed for and built on the Zen Cart open-source e-commerce platform, it features a number of customizations and financial / payment integrations for their merchant account and PayPal.
The Symonds Group has also chosen DCP Partners for its hosting and administrative support – a complete turn-key solution for their online presence.
Mar 05
John DonovanClient News, Company News
Donna Evans, migration, SEO, Wordpress
We’ve recently migrated a ‘hard-coded’ website we developed a year ago for DonnaEvansMusic.com to a WordPress CMS site. Donna provides piano and voice lessons in Aliso Viejo, CA and wanted to achieve better ranking on Google, Yahoo, Bing and other search engines. By moving to WordPress, we can keep a sitemap updated automatically, leverage the intrinsic SEO capabilities of the system, add an easy-to-maintain Event Calendar, and provide her with the ability to publish a blog that her students and others can follow.
Aug 20
John DonovanClient News
We’ve just completed a project that restyled the ECommerce site for BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse, as part of a complete redesign of their web presence. The new corporate site was built in Drupal by another firm, with a completely new look and feel for BJ’s. We had to mirror that design in the online store, which was already online and functional – so the only changes we could make was via CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and some XHTML included in the header and footer of the page. It turned-out to be an interesting project, given the limitations of the ECommerce package – but the client was quite happy with the results.
Jul 19
John DonovanClient News
One of the more interesting projects we’ve done in a while has to be the genealogy database site for my wife, who has been compiling family genealogy data for the past 10 years or so.
This is not your typical ‘family tree’ – but rather includes some 61,000+ names for ancestors and relatives. We’ve moved her data from a PC-based application into a server-based website, built on the TNG framework. Its all PHP and mySQL, so perfect for integration with some of our other applications and technology.
Now that we have the first draft of the site up and running, with the user interface the way she wanted – her next step is to start adding the photos and scanned documents to the system and creating the links to the individual’s records.
This is going to be one of those long-term projects that we’ll continue to tweak and improve over time.
Jun 23
John DonovanClient News, Company News
The Concord Blue Devils are the reigning and 13-time Drum Corps International World Champions … and have just recently released an iPhone application that includes a news feed from our DrumCorpsPlanet site. We created a custom PHP script that generates an XML feed, as well as the specially-formatted content pages, for the application – pulled from the Joomla content management system.
It was especially exciting to see that the BlueDevils iPhone app was featured on the Apple ‘Start Page’ this morning – which receives some 2 Million hits per day. Talk about getting some great exposure! Congratulations Blue Devils!
May 25
John DonovanClient News
We’ve just released the new Pacific Crest website – just in-time for the 2010 Drum Corps International Summer Music Games Tour, which kicks-off in mid-June. DCP Partners provides the design, development, hosting, and administrative support services for Pacific Crest Youth Arts Organization – the only DCI World Class corps in Southern California. The site is built on Joomla 1.5, along with some custom PHP applications we have developed for them. Be sure to visit the site to learn more about this exciting youth-focused activity.
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