Hi There, I'm Josh

This is Dentsearch.com

Role: Developer / Designer

Dentsearch.com served as my Senior Project. The client, Bruce Henry Associates, hired me to give their 11-year-old site a complete redesign and rebuild. Together we developed an in-depth project-planning document, agreeing on functionality, design, and price. Dentsearch.com is a community-posting site that tailors to the Dental job industry. Visitors are free to browse a job database, and members can either post, or apply to posted jobs. Applications include attached resumes and personal messages only accessible by the job poster. Job seekers use the site for free, Job posters have the choice between a free job posting, or a premium advertised job posting.

Dentsearch was built on the open-source platform, Drupal. Drupal is highly flexible and extendable, and covered basic content management and user systems. I developed two custom modules to extend functionality required by the project, such as email alerts for specific user actions, and a nag message reminding users to fill in their desired location so the site can recommend new jobs in their area of interest. I also developed a custom Drupal theme tailored, and exclusive, from scratch. The site uses the JavaScript library jQuery for animations and rotations that draw attention to featured areas. I also had to manage the clean import of over 6,000 users, insuring that no one’s account was lost and that all the information from the old database matched up with the new user profile fields.

The site successfully launched in late December, and sees hundreds of visits from around the world daily.