This very basic website was quickly created using default templates and default artwork from a web-design software product. The client wanted to have a working website in a single work session, so we sat together, found stock art on the internet, and quickly pasted together a website that would be operational in a matter of hours.
The main feature that allows this basic website to be memorable is the “intelligent” integration of email subscription registration forms into the design. Since the popup email subscription registration request resides on multiple pages of the website, JEM Software had to devise a way that would prevent the popup from appearing if the website visitor had already signed up for the subscription on a prior page.
The original Shaarey Zedek Windsor website was hand coded in HTML and was difficult to maintain due to the inconsistent rendering when using different browsers.
Updates were extremely labour intensive, since the stories had to be merged into existing pages, and were not simply taken from a story repository, as is done with modern-day content management systems.
The original version of the Safe and Secure Computing website was designed using style elements found on various websites already on the internet.
By analyzing existing sites, borrowing code snippets that had interesting characteristics, and adding unique elements, JEM Software was able to get the Safe and Secure Computing website up in a matter of a couple of days.
This hand-coded HTML website was one of the first created by JEM Software, and by far the most complex. The back end database system contains millions of complex historical records from baseball games spanning the half-decade beginning 2001. Scripts running in the back end are continuously searching for stories related to baseball, including injury reports, roster changes, and game-by-game box scores. All of this is done with automated “spiders” that crawl baseball news sources and extract relevant data for inclusion in the dynamic database.
Before each day’s games, automated processes would analyze possible game scenarios and compare its own predictions against the oddsmakers’ predictions. After all this information was compiled, the daily picks web page would be automatically generated and posted to a subscriber-accessible address.
This site was retired when online gambling laws changed in the U.S., but is still maintained online for historical purposes.
