Site Launch: Sightpath Medical

I recently had the opportunity to partner with a good friend of mine (and extremely talented designer) as a contractor on a major website for Sightpath Medical.  He was responsible for the html design, while I implemented the SQL-based back-end of the site from the ground up.  It ended up being a challenging and fun project all at the same time.

Here are some of the highlights of what I built:

• Role-based Content Management System (CMS)
  The CMS for this site allows administrators to log in and edit content on every page of the site.  Not just text content, but images, files, meta tags, and more, all while keeping a uniform look/feel throughout the site with the use of some custom templates.  Administrators are also able to set up site "editors" and define which specific pages these editors can access.
  
• Doctor Location Finder
  Adminstrators are also able to maintain a list of various doctors and locations that is searchable by the end-users of the site.  People can find the nearest laser vision doctor searching by name, city/state, or distance from zip code.  The zip code search implements Google's GeoCoder technology to calculate exact longitude/latitude for each location.  The site then calculates distance based on those coordinates. 
  
• Sitewide Search
  The site has a real-time search that indexes each page of the site and actually gives the user hints when they type in a search phrase.

I'm in the process of developing quite a few sites with CMS features, so it will be fun to role those out in the coming months.