Design Portfolio
The best way to get an appreciation for the capabilities of Noetic Harbor, LLC is to look at some of the websites we have developed. This group of websites is meant to be representative of some of our work. For each category of sites we review some of the most salient features. To visit any of these sites click the thumbnails at the right. Some have sections that are password protected.
Sailing Class Associations
The J/105 is a 35 foot racing one-design class sailboat. The J/105 Class Association is an association of owners who have common interests in sailing the boat. This site has been in operation since 1996 and has been, in part, responsible for the feeling of community among the owners and the success of the Class. The webmaster posts articles on governance, racing results, and general news. There is a Forum where owners can post questions and get answers from other owners. This site supports a database of owners, search capability, RSS feeds, and a weekly poll. We also have constructed similar sites for the J/80 and J/109 Class Associations. For the J/105 and J/109 there are also adjunct sites for Fleets within the Association that we developed.
Student Financial Aid Administrators
We have designed and built three sites for Financial Aid Administrators, including those from Massachusetts, Michigan, and Maine. These are all membership sites featuring user-maintained content, mailing lists, photo albums, voting, and conference materials. We have also done a site for Massachusetts College Goal Sunday (an organization that helps high school students fill out their required FAFSA forms).
Small Non-Profits
We have the Kingston Congregational Church as well as the Jewish Seniors Association and their housing adjunct, Tamarisk, RI. These all have been through several iterations, improving them over the years. The KCC site features an events calendar that can be updated by the secretary of the Church. The Tamarisk site features a Flash slideshow of photos of the facility. The Jewish Seniors site has multiple sections that can be updated with news, events, and photography by a webmaster who had limited computer skills to start out. These are among several sites that have email accounts with them. The most recent non-profit brought online is the Fashion Jewelry Trade Association (FJTA). We also host, but did not design, the site of the Peace Dale Congregational Church. We have also helped with the Cub Scouts, a local MOMS Club, and two Homeowners' Associations.
Small Businesses
One of our oldest sites is Anchor Self Storage. One of our newest is Lighted Charts. The former is a self-storage company with locations in Wakefield, RI and Mashpee, MA. The latter is a home business making nautical charts that have LEDs that blink at the same frequence and color as the actual lights. Another small business site that we designed includes a shopping cart for the sale of jewelry.
Music
Enrico Garzilli is an author, composer, scholar, organist, pianist, and teacher. We have developed sites for him and for his musical, Rage of the Heart. Both these sites are used to preview his music and the latter is also a vehicle for selling his CDs and viewing photography of recording sessions.
University Services
The Northeastern University Financial Aid department found it difficult to get updates implemented by their Information Technology department. They contracted with Noetic Harbor to redesign their part of the University site and we supplied them with an interface to allow them to update their content on a daily basis. This site runs on our server rather then University computers, but is still integrated with the rest of the University website, neu.edu. As a result we also picked up the Career Services portion of the NEU main website.
Other Sailing
At various times we have constructed sites for sailing regattas or sailing organizations. The Block Island Race Week site has been in operation since 2003. The most recent innovation has been to take registrations on-line using credit cards and allow the organizer to monitor the entries. The J/105 North Americans site was done in 2004. The Twenty Hundred Club was primarily designed by one of their own members, with a small amount of help from us.
Personal Sites
At various times we have designed sites for families and for selling boats or cars. In the case of the latter, these are short-lived sites that simplify the advertising of the boat or car and then they disappear after the item is sold. It is surprisingly inexpensive and efficient to sell this way.