Savvy Miss, LLC: For intellectually curious, fun-loving women
The Goal: Build an easily managed web 2.0 community for women.
Used Technologies: PHP, MySQL, Apache, Flash
Frameworks: TYPO3 CMS
About:
Savvy Miss (http://www.savvymiss.com) is a free website community dedicated to connecting, empowering, and informing savvy women everywhere. Updated daily, content includes articles, interviews and expert Q&As regarding careers, colleges, books, dating, volunteer information, and important societal issues - everything that fun-loving women want to know. Savvy Miss also provides members with an opportunity to build relationships through user-friendly message boards.
Project Tasks
- Slight changes in tt_news: new algorithm of paging (characters count instead of word). New algorithm makes articles look better with the same height on each page. (tt_news)
- Shopping section. www.savvymiss.com/shopping/ The main point was to build an affiliate system with possibility to manage products so easy as it possible. Shopping section provides advanced search, categorizing, featured products, filters, paging, etc. (tt_news + tt_news' hooks)
- Flash articles preview. We've implemented the scheme TYPO3 -> tt_news -> tt_news hook -> XML -> Flash. This allows user to see the links to the latest & featured articles, blog's entries and pages in an interactive way. (tt_news hooks, typo3 hooks, flash, libXML)
- Shopping navigation with possibility to mark elements as "NEW" in a flexible manner (custom plugin with tt_news)
- RSS Feeds. www.savvymiss.com/rss-feeds-list.html (tt_news configuration)
- Slight "tipafriend" extension modification. Provides "send to friend" possibility.
Project Duration
- May 2006 to September 2007
Technical Information
This website is using TYPO3 v.4.0. The web server runs PHP 4.3.2 and MySQL 4.1.21. The Direct Mail extension is installed and configured to provide users with opportunity to get email deliveries from the site. The site uses phpAdsNew banner system and allows administering itself using FE Form Edit API interface. One more frontend administration module is News FE Edit which provides administrators with possibility to edit site news. Next important module is Simple hit statistics being used to determine the number of site visitors. Also it should be mentioned that thare is a module which makes site using more comfortable - Tip-A-Friend. With the help of this module user is able to send a link to any article he likes to his friends just clicking on a special link. Random Quotes module is used to place occasional phrases of some famous people on the main section pages, making site design livelier. Besides these special extensions there are also ordinary ones such as the following: CHC Forum, Front End User Registration, Indexed Search Engine and MailformPlus. The last is used to make feedback messages.
