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Greenwich Web Group has done custom development work with Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs, widgets, and social networks. This level of development is typically not necessary for basic promotional and portfolio sites because they require significant time and can double or triple the cost of a site. However if your are ready commit to engaging your customers online, we are ready to help. Here is an example of some of the work we have done:
PPrize.com
In 2006, we developed PPrize.com, which caters to high-end collectors of first edition Pultizer Prize winning books. The site provides points of identification for all of the Pulitzer books from 1918 to present. The site offers places for collectors to comment and communicate with each other. The site also publishes an annual Pulitzer prediction list that successfully predicted the last two winners. It was written in PHP and JavaScript, uses CSS, is driven by a MySQL database, and is hosted on a Linux/Apache server. The revenue model is commission and advertising based.
FEdPo.com
We expanded this concept a year later, and developed FEdPo.com (FirstEditionPoints.com), an online reference guide for rare book identification. The website contains points of identification for over 500 collectible books. It was written in PHP and JavaScript, uses CSS, is driven by a MySQL database, and is hosted on a Linux/Apache server. There are two major PHP templates that serve as a presentation layer for the book database. The site features a client-side comments section for each book reference, a wish list for tracking desired books, a full text search, and a live summary of the day’s most referenced books. The revenue model is commission and advertising based.
MyTideClock.com
In 2008, we developed a digital tide clock for a local yacht club. The clock is a lightweight AJAX widget that mimics the mechanics of a traditional tide clock, but provides improved accuracy by accessing government tide tables and automatically adjusting itself each morning to the first high tide of the day for a specified water location.
The tideclock widget is basically a real-time lunar clock that functions somewhat like a standard clock. As we all know, a standard clock is designed to track to a standard solar day - which is the amount of time it takes the earth to turn from the Sun and make a complete rotation on its axis to face the Sun again. But a tide clock has a different timing mechanism that tracks a lunar day, which for oceanographers is the amount of time it takes the earth to turn away from the Moon and make a complete rotation on its axis to face the Moon again. Another way to think of a lunar day is the amount of time it takes for the Moon to appear in the exact same spot in the sky after a full rotation. The MyTideClock.com widget tracks a lunar day the same way a standard clock tracks a solar day - two rotations of a tide clock's hand equals one lunar day. This ratio allows the tide clock to represent two high tides and two low tides per lunar day just as a standard clock represents two twelve-o-clocks and two six-o-clocks per solar day.
We now offer the mytideclock widget to everyone via the Clearspring widget network. Our latest tide clock widget can be set for hundreds of locations along the eastern seaboard of the United States. Many water-oriented sites such as atlantic-watersports.com are using our tide clock to help their customers determine the best time to be out on the water.
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