Knight's Realm

I guess I should be posting sites that I've been finishing huh? DUH!

I got this one done about a week ago. It was a favor done for a bunch of friends at my dentist's office. It was fun but definitely challenging.... they wanted a lot of fancy features for their little online group to be able to meet up in and discuss stuff. (e.g., share pictures, chat, debate history, share recipes, distribute newsletters, etc.)

Something like that would have costed us thousands if we were to create from scratch so I suggested an open source system for it. Turns out it worked out really well although it did give me a few nights of hair pulling to make it all work. They seem very happy.

It has everything from a full forum, a shoutbox, a chat module, polling system, calendar, etc. It's pretty fun to play around with although the backed code is pretty intimidating. I'm not a programmer so this feels like quite an accomplishment.

From a design standpoint, I feel "ok" about it. It's not revolutionary but I managed to work around some of the limitations of working within this pre-structured environment. Had we the budget, I would have loved to have made this from scratch.

Anyway, check it out if you want to. www.knightsrealm.org