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I began work with the New Brunswick Association of Career Colleges in the fall of 2007. I was contracted by DLB Consulting in Fredericton, New Brunswick to do the job.

What NBACC needed was a way to connect their schools under the organization so that the organization was a more credible resource in the field. Icreated a website for them that would allow for potential students to browse programs by keyword and get a list of schools in the province that offered training in their desired field. The website would provide students with brief descriptions of the program as well a contact information and a link back to the respective schools and their programs.

Of course this presented a problem…

With limited staff and hundreds of programs offered, it would be impossible for NBACC to keep the information current if they had to manage it themselves. The solution: have the schools manage it for them. We wrote a web application to tie in to the website that allowed each school to have an administrator who could log in and edit their school information, add and delete programs, enter contact information, even upload a school logo and photos.

Since the NBACC website is essentially promoting their programs for them, the schools quickly caught on and began using the system.

Overall, I was pretty pleased. This is really the first completely custom application that I have designed and built on my own. When all is said and done, the measure of good programming is whether or not people use it. I think this one measures up. It solved a huge need and let regular staff with no web experience update their school’s web presence.

Take a look at the screenshot below, or visit the NBACC site here.