Seattle User Interface Design Course

x°'û Seattle User Interface Design Course

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User Interface Design
and Usability

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User Interface Design and Usability Course

Onsite training available upon request in Seattle and surrounding Puget Sound region of Washington. Topics covered will be tailored to maximize existing investments (to work with your infrastructure)

UI (User Interface) Design -------------

AJAX
DHTML
JavaScript
.CSS
HTML
Flash Rich Internet Application
ActionScript
Flash 8 Professional

Payment Processing-----------

SSL Certificates and Secure Transactions
Wells Fargo Cyber Cash Processing
Authorize.net Payment Processing
Pay Pal Payment Processing
Secure Data Processing Design Patterns

Enterprise Data Management----------------

CMS Deployment (Content Management System)
XML / XSLT Templates
SQL Server Bulk Data Transformation Services
Custom Access and Excel Data Integration

Digital Property Management--------

Web Portal Management
Community Development
Usability Testing
User Interface Design
SEO Search Engine Optimization

To schedule a consultation Contact Jeff

as automated after setup.

I created the original web data warehouse using Microsoft SQL server and let all departments submit the membership information in the format they wanted. The only requirement was they would continue to use the same format (comma delimited text files, Excel or what ever the data source happened to be). Using SQL Server DTS it was so easy to setup the automated data imports.

I worked with a quirky fellow named Bob who had build an access database he called ProvNet that lived on the internal network. We reworked how all the data got in there and we found a few glitches that made Provnet more accurate before we actually started using it on the website. Everyone loved Provnet so we just left it how it was and imported the data into the web SQL Server data warehouse leaving Provnet intact other than a few query tweaks for the minor bugs we found in the review. Bob was very cool to work with.

Five years later to my knowledge the SQL Server I built sill mergers information from a conglomerate of sources and lets all the technology play together while providing lightning fast provider directory search results on Blue Cross's website and the membership validation functionality.

At the same time Blue Cross of Idaho contacted CRI Advantage to help with the design of the new website and to implement a Content Management System (CMS). CRI Advantage built their own quirky custom CMS based on XML for around $750,000 that Blue Cross of Idaho couldn't even use. CRI Advantage's CMS was a huge waste of money and resources. They actually built the editor so the marketing people had to end a XML node and start a XML node when they were typing a sentence to start and stop bold Ha Ha ha I guess they never heard of an online word editor. The design CRI Advantage made was a disaster because everything with JavaScript links and drop down menus. CRI Advantage had ZERO though for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) or usability. CRI did not touch the online provider directory, or the online insurance quoting system that were the two most visited portions of the site. To their credit they had a hell of an IT sales team. Blue Cross dropped the $750k CMS developed by CRI Advantage like a hot potato a year later.

And five years later the provider directory and online insurance quoting system that are for the most part the same as they were five years ago even though the site has undergone a few face lifts.

Solution
Microsoft SQL Server 2000, .asp, XML, XSLT, JavaScript, HTML, .CSS, MainFrame data files, Excel, Access, Sybase, and DTS (Data Transformation Services).

Benefit
Automatically updated web and printed provider directory. Online interactive quoting system for all products/health plans and demographics. Online membership validation.

ONG>HTML, .CSS, JavaScript, .asp, Access, SA-File Up, and Photoshop.

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