Applied Project : CS100W( Cambrian Center )

So last semester Spring '11, we had the honor of working with a group of talented people comprised of undergraduate and graduate members on developing a website that was compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) for Cambrian Center, a non-profit that provides affordable housing for seniors and adults with disabilities.

Cambrian Center had a previous website that was developed by SJSU business students several years ago that they were not too pleased about. The old website had inconsistent coding that had frames within frames written in HTML so it was difficult to maintain. It was also not ADA compliant as well which the website needed to be by March 2012 and it was difficult to navigate.

We worked with Cambrian Center to fix all these problems that they had with the website with several meetings, and proposals. Weekly team meetings were scheduled  that kept everybody on the same page and status updates on where we were in the project for that week. By the end of the semester, we were able to make the website ADA compliant by implementing new features such as:

• navigation menus
• dynamic text re-sizing
• website search powered by Google
• picture slide shows
• site map

Their current website can be viewed HERE.

We showed Cambrian Center the final product before launching the website officially and they were very pleased with all the new features/changes. 

This project was 10 weeks long and we were actually assigned to a different project with another company but that backfired which pushed us back two weeks. So we actually had less time to find another company that would work with us and finish the project within the deadline. It's okay though since we finished everything on time! All in all, this experience has taught me a lot about real world situations in which you can never tell what is going to happen.

Oh yeah, and before the website was complete we actually had to showcase and demo what we worked on presented in the following video along with other groups:

If you skip over to 6:56 then you will see us :). We also have our proposal online as well HERE if you want to check it out.