Interactive Web Developer and Internet Architect

Tim Jones, Toronto - Drupal developer, system architect and theme designer. Building content rich websites using the Drupal Content Management System to create social networking sites, corporate websites and personal Websites.

Full experience in Internet services, ISP’s, Apache 2.x, MySQL 5.1, PHP5 and Drupal. Also wide experience in Windows Server, ASP.NET, SQL Server and programming. Web design and multimedia experience in Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, CSS coding, HTML, JQuery, Adobe AfterEffects and Sony Vegas.

Development and Design of highly interactive Websites featuring:

Web Content: Blogs, News, Articles, Forum Discussions, Flash Video, YouTube Video, Image Galleries, File Upload/Download and Management, Newsletters, MP3 podcasts and User Groups. Content can be rated and shown as "TOP" public lists in a wide range of custom formats. Additionally, content can be assigned and filtered using RSS feeds which aggregates syndicated content (RSS, RDF, and Atom feeds etc).

Content can be tagged by location, grouped and proximity sorted and integrated into Google Maps. Content editing can be setup using latest WYSIWYG editors allowing users to create and edit content online, insert HTML, images, videos and hyperlinks.

User interaction: User based site sign-up and management with the ability to use OpenID. Social networking type functions allow users to see what their friends activity is: comments, creating stories, blogs and upload videos.Systems to bookmark and add favorite site content to user accounts – share and rate with others. Flexible message systems all users to add comments, ratings and write on each other’s message “wall”.

Messaging: Building Forums for threaded discussions about user-created topics which they administer and moderate. A newsletter system sends pre-authored newsletters to user subscribed e-mail addresses. Creating integrated private messages between users and all user activity and site changes can optionally be notified via e-mail to the user.

Multimedia: Design and integration of third party music and video: podcasts, Flash, YouTube, Google, Blip.TV, podOmatic, Odeo, iTunes etc. Displaying images from third party providers, such as Flickr or Photobucket. User content allows image uploading, resizing and viewing of images with front-end display via the popular Lightbox 2 application. Images can be sorted and displaying of image galleries based on pre-defined categories. Media customization and development using SWF Tools, various MP3 integration, jQuery Flash, Flash FLV, Flash encoding, JW Image Rotator and JW Media Player 4.

Search engine optimization (SEO): Adding integrated Metatag functionality within the HTML Title and META data dynamically generated from content patterns and types. URL Paths are Search Engine Friendly by automatically generate aliases from site content. Sitemaps are auto generated using XML site map in accordance with sitemaps.org specifications.

Other features and technologies: Web Services, RSS Feeds and Aggregation, Ajax forms to automatically validate and submit form data. Full experience in domain-based access control system / multisite, running multiple website affiliates from single content codebase. The advantage of using the open source Drupal system is that it is maintained and developed by a community of thousands of users and developers. Many of the top artists and bands are using the system for their own fan-based website supported by Sony Music. These include: P!nk, Beyonce, Britney Spears, John Legend, Kelly Clarkson, Michael Jackson and The Fray.

Please feel free to contact me for further information: tim (at) timjones.ca