Crystal Works: Web Development Studio

Funny Garbage is an award winning web, interactive and broadcasting US-based media company, founded in 1996 by John Carlin and Peter Girardi. This web site is the proud result of a joint effort between Funny Garbage's undisputed creative talent and Crystal Works' expertise in creating high-performance dynamic web sites.

Responsabilities/challenges:

• implementation of a custom CMS
• implementation of the web site's frontend sections
• client-side coding using XHTML, CSS & JavaScript
• backend programming using PHP5, symfony & Doctrine
• MySQL database design and programming

| Date2007 - 2008

| ClientFunny Garbage Inc.

| Wwwhttp://funnygarbage.com

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We are honored to soon celebrate a two years on-going relationship with Emmy Award winner Funny Garbage. Along this forefront media production company, we've had the pleasure of contributing to a large number of products among their extensive portfolio of clients and applications, such as National Journal, IMCPL's CurveWorld or local CW affiliate TV stations, to name just a few.

Responsabilities/challenges:

• implementing full-featured content management systems
• providing support for testing and deploying various web applications
• creating standards compliant client-side code using XHTML & CSS2 for various projects
• creating high-performance, database driven applications

| Date2006 - ongoing

| ClientFunny Garbage Inc.

The Sloppy Search is an original Funny Garbage product aimed towards allowing its consumers access to multiple sources of information via a single click. Comprised of a mashup of the most popular online services such as Google, YouTube and Flickr, this web site is more a way of searching for fun than a tool for finding specific information.

Responsabilities/challenges:

• backend programming using PHP5, symfony & Propel
• creating standards compliant client-side code based on client provided mock-ups
• implementing various web services based modules for interfacing with Google, YouTube, Flickr, Amazon and other APIs
• building a rich Ajax-powered interface

| Date2007

| ClientFunny Garbage Inc.

| Wwwhttp://sloppy.funnygarbage.com

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Online store for gottalottaheartTM products. Features a gallery of unique greeting cards hand-glittered and individually wrapped using premier materials.

Responsabilities/challenges:

• convert client provided static templates (table-based layout) to semantic markup
• frontend coding using XHTML & CSS
• implementing a CMS application and a public one using PHP5 & symfony
• DB design and programming for MySQL

| Date2007

| ClientCaron Andregg

| Wwwhttp://gottalottaheart.com/

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American Life Inc., one of the largest private holders of SODO (Seattle's Duwamish industrial area) real estate, commissioned us to help improve the search engines ranking for their 6 languages presentation websites. We have accomplished this by rewriting the obsolete HTML4 code to XHTML semantic markup, powered by CSS2.1, and by implementing several well-known techniques for providing search engines meaning to their content.

Responsabilities/challenges:

• working with multiple languages & encodings
• converting obsolete HTML & CSS code to semantic markup & CSS2
• implementing various SEO techniques for improving page rank

| Date2007

| ClientAmerican Life Inc.

| Wwwhttp://amlife.us

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LOHAS is a $227 billion market segment in the U.S. alone. We have created a powerful e-commerce application selling an extended array of products, starting from organic food, to lovely baby wear.

Responsabilities/challenges:

• writing a full-featured e-commerce application
• implementing a powerful CMS system for managing multiple manufaturers, product categories, products and various other site features
• working with Japanese text
• DB design and programming using MySQL

| Date2005 - 2006

| ClientDanny Choo

| Wwwhttp://lohass-japan.com

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Launched February 2005, Nippop has quickly become one of the most valuable resources for the Japanese music scene, reciving positive feedback right from its early days.

Responsabilities/challenges:

• implementing a full-featured application featuring Japanese music scene artist profiles and news
• build a CMS for complete content control
• implement SEO techniques for assuring high search engines ranking
• DB design and programming using MySQL

| Date2004 - 2005

| ClientBill Haw

| Wwwhttp://nippop.com

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Full-featured web portal for resources on animal rights. Home of the animal rights office of the Italian city Gorgonzola.

Responsabilities/challenges:

• implementing a powerful content publishing platform powered by an in-house built CMS
• creating HTML & CSS frontend code from client provided mocks
• backend programming using PHP & MySQL

| Date2004

| ClientSkyTeam

| Wwwhttp://dirittianimali.net/

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Home of the "Guida Dello Sciatore" Italian printed magazine, SciWeb is the ultimate web guide for skiing in the Italian Alps.

Responsabilities/challenges:

• migrating paper printed information to the web application's database
• implementing a CMS & DB powered web application for easy access to the guide's information
• build frontend code based on client provided mocks

| Date2004

| ClientSkyTeam

| Wwwhttp://sciweb.it/

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Present here only for historical reasons, this was our first attempt for an online presence :). It also was among our first PHP5 & symfony powered websites.

Responsabilities/challenges:

• design a company logo & graphical concept for our first website
• implement a symfony DB powered application featuring a blog, a portfolio & few other company information oriented sections
• DB design and programming using Propel & MySQL

| DateJune - July 2006

| ClientCrystal Works