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Company calendar. Note
site-wide and topic-specific footer information (per responsible
department), site search function, portal-style dynamic content, and
flexible navigation. Site is Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP (LAMP). It
runs on a dual processor Intel server with RAID 0 (mirroring). |
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Human resources information
page. |
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Human resources forms page.
The search for a particular document could be quite confusing, so the
site search feature (htdig) was configured to search the contents of the
PDF, Word, and Excel files, so that if you didn't know what a document's
title was, you might still find it using the content within. |
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Humor and events page. Had a
quote of the day feed, virtual bubble wrap (it was a HealtheTech thing
to pop bubble wrap whenever we got a package that had it), and pictures
from the frequent parties. |
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The suggestion form used a
Perl (CGI) back end, and got mailed directly to Human Resources. |
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The first thing anyone ever
did when they went to the main page for the IT department was to look
for the trouble ticket system (since that's all they thought they were
good for), so I went them one better by making that the content of the
main page of the IT section and wrapping the content around it. This
section contained links to all the things that IT personnel would find
useful. |
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One of the printers had a
web-based interface, which was helpful in troubleshooting problems. It
became an easy matter for an IT person to pull up the monitor from its
handy link on the intranet site, see if the toner or paper was getting
low, identify a paper jam, and fix the problem. |
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This was a document request
form handled by the QA department. Since all documents related to their
medical device products had to follow certain procedures because of FDA
regulations, document control was key. This form tied into a MySQL
database, which kept a running total of all the requests and their
status. |
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The Sales and Marketing
department was in charge of logos, product brochures, and any collateral
material related to the devices or software. Having these items readily
available on the intranet cut down on email and phone requests for them. |
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They also kept
version-specific information available about each of the products so
that support of older products was still possible, and the marketing
history of the pieces were not lost. |
