Originally I had some great ideas that were ultimately thrown out the window due to “brand violation” in which I show a couple here on the site which includes a puzzle piece missing in a globe.

This site also uses light window in the Sites section to view external sites owned, created or maintained by the organization.

One of my primary charges as a Product Architect for Kintera was to improve the user experience and efficiency of their proprietary content management system. I wrote and designed 6 product functional specifications and managed expectations, timelines, and engineers and QA personnel.

Replacing Ektron Editor
The first task was to replace Kintera’s current WYSIWYG Ektron editor throughout Sphere to be compatible with IE7 and backwards compatible with IE6. This was no easy task as there are were 16 slightly different instances all of which contained custom dialog windows proprietary to Kintera’s infrastructure. After that spec, there was a follow-up release for Firefox compatibility as Kintera made the business decision to informally support the browser for their Apple Mac clients.

AJAX User Interface
Kintera has a decent content management system however it was often hindered by load times, pop-ups, and productive workflow. My task was to improve this experience by converting it to the first AJAX driven interface in Kintera Sphere. WE took an incremental approach by dividing it into 4 product specifications.

1. General UI & Site Structure
2. Content Management
3. File Libraries
4. Revisiting & Cleanup

The specifications added new functionality such as drag n’ drop menu trees, rollover contextual information, edit in place, modal dialog box (stylistically similar to lightbox), multiple pages or pieces of content open and the same time. Ultimately the functionality included a completed revised middle tier development architecture to separate back-office presentation from the code layers making it easier to update, manage and make changes in the future using object orientated interfaces.

The purpose of the application is intended for the migration of client’s web sites to Kintera content management system. The spider tool allows a start & end tag to be crawled for to assure that only content is being grabbed from the HTML.

I have owned the architecture sinse late 2005 and have made significant improvements to the application. Some of which include URL mapping, complete .NET 2.0 GUI, image path redirecting and live update.

I also had the daunting task of porting all content from the previous version of their site and hundreds of Microsoft word files. Overall, I am pleased with the final product.

I created this comp in September 2005 on behalf of Kintera Inc. when I was apart of their Created Services team. This was one of many comps submitted by the team and am uncertain if it has been used.

The campaign consisted of a new website, business cards, and several large format print materials for the conference. The website was built off of the Joomla platform for ease of use for the client.

The order consisted of a 20′ x 10′ Wall Banner, 16 – 30″x60″ Pole Banners, ans 2 – 10′x5′ Banners. My print vendor of choice was Promotional Advertising Solutions and they did a great job in such a short timeframe.

The event was held at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel in Los Angeles in September 2005. Below are some photos of the event an the banners. Photo’s graciously provided by alienstranger.com.

You can view more photos of this event at http://alienstranger.com/nufoc2005.htm and read about this event on its wiki page – National UFO Conference.