Wisco Links, Madison Campus Homepage Hotspot

Yesterday I met with the owner of the student run website, wiscolinks. He said he was looking for someone to take over the web design duties for the site, and give it an overhaul. I have been looking for projects to work on, and this one looked like a perfect fit. Wiscolinks already boasts a steady visitor rate of 10,000 visitors a day, most of the UW-Madison students. The site is a web portal that gives you links and information that would be useful to a college student.

Upon that, the owner of the website would like most of the stuff hosted on the front page, and also to make is so there is no page refreshing to get new content. So this will let me put my new book I just bought, php and ajax, to good use, and will also let me implement some cool mini ajax applications, such as a drink special catalog for bars around Madison, and possibly a menu viewer that shows menus from restaurants around campus. There are many features that can be packed into the site, and I have only started to program them, but hopefully within the near future, you shall see a sweet Wiscolinks website.

UPDATE:
Well things didn't seem to work out too well with Wiscolinks. To be quite frank, the owner has no knowledge of how to run an online website. One of his ideas to make money was to gather people's information, and then sell it. As a web developer that considers himself to have "web standards" this was not looked upon as a good idea. After spending my entire spring break working on the site, and repeatedly asking for help and information from the owner, he was unresponsive, and plain out disrespectful. So, I've decided to part ways and will not be working on Wiscolinks any longer. The website is a great idea, but the owner is a complete douche bag that shows no respect for Web Developers, which is no surprise considering he made the site using Front Page and frame, hello? Please step outside of 1990 and come join us in 2007.

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