I've been working with Web Development since 1998, focusing mainly on dynamic pages using Perl, PHP, and MySQL. In the last few years I started to improve the way I used CSS and divs, as well as "client side" tecnologies such as Javascript - which led to using Ajax techniques.

The Design is done by Maria Couto, who develops the visuals along with the clients.

Besides websites, we also develop intranet and extranet systems.

See below some of our projects.

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myWebChat

myWebChat is the first version of an embedded chat system where visitors of a given site can talk amongst themselves. The technology used for the system was Ajax with PHP and MySQL (but the user doesn't need any of that in their site - all there is to do is to put a piece of code on the page in which they want to have the chat window).

The site's design is simple in this first version, since the intention was to see if the chat system would attract any public. However, the site (and the chat) is multi-language and recognizes the language preference of the user's browser automagically. It also has links to see the site in English and Brazilian Portuguese. The registration forms also use Ajax.





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AnimaMundi Dances

Maria Couto's site about her work with Sacred Dances. She designed it herself, maintaining visual structure throughout all pages. Larger texts are shown using scrolling DIVs.

This site is multi-language, recognizing the user's browser preference or through links. Language options are: Brazilian Portuguese, English, and French.

Click on the image to see the site. The link opens in a new window/tab.







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Paulo Segatto

Paulo Segatto is a jewelery designer and makes fantastic things. We built his first site having a gallery amongst other sections. The initial page shows a random piece each time it's loaded.

You can also choose which language to see it in.









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Armazém dos Sonhos

Armazém dos Sonhos Alimentos (Dreams Warehouse Foods) is a factory of natural products and a coffee shop located in Osório/RS/Brazil. This is a draft of their site.

Maria Couto signs the design.

Click on the image to see the draft. The link opens in another window/tab.









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Intranets and Extranets

Throughout the years I also developed some internal management systems with or without connection to external sites. For example:

Acrefi -
Address book and labeling management system. Acrefi had an excel file with over 5000 associates' addresses, some duplicated, and many with different formats. My work was to migrate all these addresses to a MySQL database (I did it using Perl to massage the addresses and perform the insertion), and build a system where they could: a) manipulate the existing addresses; b) add new ones individually; c) remove addresses; d) browse the addresses without having a MySQL client; and most importantly, e) print addressing labels.

Foreign Affairs Cursos de Idiomas - Student tuition control system. I managed the São Paulo office of FA for 3 years. During this time, I developed a system to control the tuition of the students using PHP and MySQL. It was at that time that I also developed a Student Central - a system where the students could follow up on their grandes, frequency, teacher comments, etc. When I have some time I'll place a copy of the Student Central here.

Sasha Shaman - I built Sasha's site sometime around 2002, but what I liked most in her site was that she could manage the content of the courses site herself. That was even before Blogs became a hit (or even existed?).