Columbia Spectator

The Columbia Spectator needed some drastic changes to their website; through some lengthy discussions and hard, these changes were realized. Although the base site was already complete, they needed to revamp some of their technologies.

The biggest hurdle was organizing their front page. With their daily publications, they needed something highly automated and reliable; so much time was spent creating a system to organize their front page. They also required reparations of a few broken features, including disappearing images and a result-less search feature.

The Hoya

It was quite a challenge. It's not every day one gets a request for an upgrade to the website of a college newspaper considered by many (especially at Georgetown University, and more specifically at the paper’s headquarters) as a serious competitor to the New York Times. My job was to take the paper’s webpage to the next level so that even the Wall Street Journal would feel the heat. And that we have done. It’s been really fun working with such a committed group of people– The Hoya’s editors and staff- to make this site more responsive to the needs of a modern student publication.

Together we accomplished our objectives: The website has been vastly improved. Sure, we know that the NY Times and Wall Street Journal will survive a bit longer despite our threat. But they better watch out. We are on our way.

NCSC

Georgetown’s International Relations Association needed a brand new website to handle their annual conference, the National Collegiate Security Conference. They had very specific requirements for their users, so a variety of custom solutions were implemented.
Any organization that wishes to participate in the NCSC can register, select the events they wish to participate in, and view their invoices. On the management side, administrators can view every organization’s preferences, see if they’ve paid, and change fees.