conference website
We just finished up our first virtual conference website. It’s a kind of mix of event signup and confernce registration as well as related content. The content is provided by the company hosting the conference, SAE. I think I most enjoyed puting together the Dynamic Lead with the rotating images on the landing page. I used Prototype UI’s carousel widget.
We included related content using the sphinx search engine through the thinking sphinx plugin. You can see the related content on event pages in the right hand column:
We used nginx as our front end server and ruby on rails 2.1.x for the application logic. There are even elements of blueprint css that we used for the site layout. There is of course, other things we used to build this site, vim, mysql, ruby, prototype, scriptaculous, and I’m sure there is more…
“We used nginx as our front end server and ruby on rails 2.1.x for the application logic.”
What is Rails running under? Mongrel-ESI?
How do you deploy? Capistrano?
Hi Joe, We used mongrel as the backend server.
Hey Todd! Who is the ‘we’ you mentioned throughout the post?
Hey Adam,
Ah yeah, I need to do a post on my new job too! I’m working for a new company named anerian. We’re just getting started our site is anerian.com.
-Todd
Ah cool, glad to hear things are going well! I look forward to hearing more about Anerian!