Pop Mongrel

Pop Mongrel is a collection of resources about popular culture. Both students and faculty of the Media Studies department at Vancouver Island University can contribute their own resources to the website through the use of the custom back-end.

I created this dynamic website for one of my major projects in my Spring 2010 semester at Vancouver Island University.

The front-end consists of the dynamic webpages that were created from a static template. They display the information that is contributed from the back-end.

The back-end is custom built, and allows students and faculty to login and contribute their own resources to the website. There are multiple levels of users, each with their own privileges within the back-end. Students can only contribute, while faculty can also approve/delete contributions, and admin can create/delete users as well. All of the forms check for validation using both PHP and JavaScript, as well as other security measures throughout. The website also includes a basic search feature.

Project Details:

• Information & website architecture
• Standards-compliant XHTML/CSS template edited into dynamic webpages
• PHP
• MySQL database design and normalization
• JavaScript
• Future version recommendations list

Note: Check back in the fall when you can view this website online!