Open Source/Design Statement

This page was created using LAMP - or Linux, Apache, Mysql and PHP.  In plain terms, the entire site is database driven, with a granularly managed administrative interface (every administrator can have access to certain aspects of the site).  

Software Notes: 

The store is powered by Zend (http://zencart.com) - not recommended.  It's not powerful enough and the interface is unholy ugly.The blog is powered by B2 Evolution - which is very cumbersome and lacks portability, efficiency, and has this truly bizarre way of managing side content. The survey is a very hacked version of Dragan Mitic's ( www.miticdjd.com ) poll software, which is in its founding stages but very decent. Our version II site will include an implementation of MediaWiki ( http://www.mediawiki.org/ ) which is excellent, if heavy.  The CMS WYSIWYG is powered by the excellent MoxieCode ( http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/ ) TINY MCE.  

Video: 

The videos are hosted by Vimeo ( http://vimeo.com ) (not Open Source - but free for now and a pleasure to deal with).

Images and Design:

All of the design elements were created by the webmaster, with the patient help of CW at http://wangmedia.com.  Most of the images were purchased or shared from http://www.sxc.hu/ - the Stock.XCHNG - a great site.  Reasonable attempts have been made to contact all image-creators, however, if your image is here and you wish to have it removed, please contact our webmaster.  

If there is any part of this site that you would like to understand better or implement for your own site, please don't hesitate to contact the web group.  

Jared Alessandroni

November, 2008