Aliste is the online equipment booking service for the Vancouver Island University Media Studies department. Students and faculty within the department use the website to book out equipment that they need for projects.
This website was a re-design project for one of my classes at VIU. The original Aliste had a very poor design and had many bugs and features that did not work properly. I worked on this project with two other students from October 2010 – February 2011. We came up with a new modern and easy-to-use design for the website, as well as upgraded it to HTML5, used some CSS3, and added jQuery to search the database and book out equipment via a calendar, seamlessly without page refresh. We worked with the existing PHP, fixing many bugs, including how it handles conflicting bookings, properly assigns/tracks user levels, and how it deals with weekends.
Also, a thank-you to the VIU Media Studies lab technician Chris Alemany for taking the time to work out a few more kinks for the new website to be able to go live.
Launched: February 2012
Project Details:
- Upgraded to HTML5
- CSS3 techniques
- Clean-up of existing OOPHP & SQL
- Debugging
- Seamless equipment search & booking via jQuery & Ajax
- New, modern design
- Custom graphics
