Irvin Stern Foundation’s Grantmaker internal web application

May 10th, 2010

The Irvin Stern Foundation is a small charitable trust established in 1957 which makes grants to organizations in the areas of human services, civic affairs, and Jewish welfare.  The Foundation makes use of Grantmaker—an internal web application—to manage all aspects of grant requests, such as maintaining information about the requesting organizations (contact information, type of organization, mission statement), grant requests and their statuses, keeping track of correspondence, etc. Chicago Code made extensive changes to the existing Grantmaker application, refactoring certain areas and making enhancements to create a more user-friendly application.

mySqool custom web application

April 12th, 2010

The Chicago Portfolio School provides one-year programs in Copy-writing, Art Direction, and Design. Digital Bootcamp provides training in Adobe, Microsoft, Quark and other products. These two schools are located in the same building in Downtown Chicago and needed an application that would allow them to manage information about students, staff members, instructors, classes, classrooms, programs, semesters, etc. Chicago Code helped them code mySqool—a custom web application that satisfies their needs. mySqool has different permission levels which allow staff members, instructors, and students to gain access to only the information they need.

Professional Liability Defense Federation WordPress integration

March 8th, 2010

The Professional Liability Defense Federation™ is a not-for-profit organization designed to bring together attorneys, claims professionals and risk management specialists to share expertise and information helpful to the successful defense of professional liability claims.

The PLDF needed to incorporate a blogging engine into their website to power their “News” section. WordPress was chosen because it provides an easy interface to add and categorize blog posts.

Visit Blog: http://pldf.org/news/

Reflect My Life e-commerce with Magento

February 4th, 2010

The Reflect My Life website seeks to empower people through positive affirmations.

Reflect My Life needed a more powerful e-commerce site to sell their affirmation t-shirts and other products. Magento was chosen to power the store. The interface was greatly customized with jQuery, and jQuery Tools to provide a unique experience for their customers.

Visit store: http://www.reflectmylife.com/shop/

The Miracle Verse website WordPress integration

January 3rd, 2010

The Miracle Verse website is a promotional site for author Aaron Harris and his books.

The site was integrated with WordPress for content management (CMS) and blogging purposes using an existing design.

View website: http://www.miracleverse.com/