NEOHSC
The Northeast Ohio Homeschool Connection (NEOHSC) is a group of homeschooling parents who originally gathered around a Yahoo! Groups mailing list, but eventually determined they needed more features to nurture their community.
With a heavy emphasis on the discussion-oriented nature of their collaboration, we selected DotNetNuke with a commercially available module, ActiveForums, installed to host their email-enabled discussions. They also wanted a picture gallery, event calendar, and a map to let them see where everybody lived.
Most of their site is private, for members only, but you can visit their public landing page to get a taste of what we put together for them, at http://www.neohsc.com/.
We designed, built, and continue to host the site for NEOHSC. Additionally, Ken’s wife, Wendee, even took most of the photographs that we used for the design of the site. If you’d like to see more of Wendee’s work, you can see her website here.
Mertz Manufacturing, LLC
Our father, Lowell LeFebvre, runs the computer department at Mertz Manufacturing, in Ponca City, Oklahoma. Naturally, with our experience building a variety of websites, over the years, he asked us to help him out when it came time to build a site for Mertz.
A critical requirement was the ability to easily update the site with new content, in a flexible and orderly fashion. These updates needed to be delegated to the managers of each product line, so we implemented a role-based security system to allow individual employees the ability to update their own portions of the site. Also, as the programmer on staff is most familiar with Microsoft technologies, we settled upon the DotNetNuke content management system as their platform. In addition to the public site, which you can visit by browsing to http://www.mertzok.com, we also created a private employee-only portal, to act as foundation for their company intranet.
With a little training from us, Mertz chose to control their own hosting environment for the site.