Websites: Fraternity Solutions Group

A 50-person company, Carden Jennings Publishing has several departments, one of which is the Fraternity Solutions Group. The Fraternity Solutions Group markets CJP's products and services to a very specialized niche of fraternal editors, designers, developers, and communication managers. To better serve the unique needs of its clients, Fraternity Solutions Group developed a website that represented just its department.

FSG Web DevelopmentFraternity Solutions Group's website was a database-driven site that was created using UserLand's Frontier and Manila content-management solutions. Although the site was too small to require such a solution, it exposed me to UserLand's capabilities and services.

Within my first few months of employment, I redesigned the department's website by making only a few changes to UserLand's document template and Cascading Style Sheets. I also added a few pages for self-promotion and web development.

For an experienced developer, a content management solution such as UserLand's Frontier and Manila would be a useful service to have. For such a small site, however, its services were excessive and inevitably lengthened the development time.

Client: Carden Jennings Publishing Fraternity Solutions Group
Type of work: Carden Jennings Publishing Employee
Description: Redesign the Fraternity Solutions Group's website using UserLand's Frontier and Manila content-management solutions
Project role: My primary goal was to learn more about UserLand's Frontier and Manila content-management solutions. The Fraternity Solutions Group benefited by receiving a newly designed website and updated content.
Tools used: UserLand's Frontier, UserLand's Manila, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Macromedia Fireworks, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe ImageReady
Languages used: HTML, DHTML, CSS
Server resources: UserLand Frontier/9.0-MacOSX on MacOSX
Size of site: 10 pages, 5 GIFs, 15 JPGs
Website: www.fraternitysolutions.com