AnswerNet & Signius

 

AnswerNet is the world’s largest telemessaging firm.

Several years ago the Princeton, NJ office hired a web dev shop to develop a one time corporate website. While the result was functional, site design was table-based and it proved cumbersome for the marketing department to add PR articles or update content. I was hired as a summer intern and rewrote all the CSS and JavaScript from scratch, improved page load speed, and on the server side fixed several serious security vulnerabilities by re-coding the ASP-based CMS.


Front End

  1. Recreated the entire site design based on CSS (I fought and won the war against tables).

  2. My CSS was added to telemarketing.com, where it runs to this day.

  3. Web optimized many overly bloated images through Photoshop, speeding up page load.

  4. Rewrote the navigation rollover JavaScript, again speeding up page load.

  5. Developed a PR page section with TinyMCE so Marketing could easily add news releases/PR/etc; also still runs on the site to this day.


Server Side

  1. Audited and improved content management system security, which originally used clear text passwords.

  2. Cleaned up a lot of redundant ASP code by creating site templates.

  3. Identified and fixed several IIS features that had been overlooked (including gzip compression and ETag caching).