Building Partnerships
Cast Iron Coding is frequently approached by designers and project managers from other companies to bridge the gap between planning a site and implementing it in TYPO3. While we also manage projects from the planning stages to post-launch evaluation, we appreciate our partners, value the business they provide us, and are always willing to put in a good word for them.
Case Studies
VOCAT (Video Oral Diagnostic Assessment Tool) is an easy-to-use web application that allows instructors at Baruch College to collect, store, and evaluate video recordings of students’ oral presentations—and securely share this data with both faculty and students. Developed by Cast Iron Coding for the Bernard L. Schwartz Institute of Communications, VOCAT was designed to help Baruch College assess and improve the oral presentation skills of its undergraduates—a fundamental component of professional literacy for Baruch’s business students, many of whom speak English as a second language. Click here to view this Case Study.
GameAlmighty.com is a cutting edge social networking site that delivers a dynamic, entertaining mix of industry previews, editorial content, discussion forums, and user contributed game reviews. Designed to meet the expectations of demanding, web-savvy users, GameAlmighty.com incorporates the latest internet technology—streaming video, RSS feeds, podcasts—all in an easy-to-use site with the sleek, energetic look and feel of a classic superhero comic book. Click here to view this Case Study.
The Tides Foundation site was a collaboration between Cast Iron Coding and Mission Control Media, with MCM handling the design and information architecture and CIC rendering XHTML/CSS from Photoshop documents, implementing the site in TYPO3, setting up necessary features and extensions, and creating the custom rotating billboard extension on the homepage. There were plenty of challenges on this site, from creating paginated page groups which are combined in the print version of the page and a unique breadcrumb navigation that abbreviates itself based on the width of the page it appears on. The result, is a highly usable, beautiful website that exemplifies what smart design, a deep understanding of usability and TYPO3 can accomplish when working in symphony. Click here to view this Case Study.
The Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University is the home to a prolific group of world-class scholars on the religious foundations of law, politics, and society. The Center produces content, in the form of press releases, op-eds, publications, and conferences on a regular basis. The challenge was coming up with a method for organizing and outputting this content that was both flexible and consistent. Cast Iron Coding utilized tt_news, advanced TypoScript techniques, and custom extensions to present the center's content in an organized, highly usable framework. Click here to view this Case Study.