Experience with online design, internet identity, and intranet interfaces.
FirstClass from SoftArc Inc., is an advanced conferencing, email, bulletin board and online communication system with a simple to use graphical interface. With FirstClass, transferring files and messages, participating in chatrooms and publishing information dynamically onto the Web is easy and quick.
It has been my pleasure, privilege, headache, triumph, nightmare, and
opportunity to design, launch and/or administer several FirstClass BBSs. Each project has provided its own unique design challenge.
Here are a few examples of FirstClass work I have done: Bill Gram-Reefer, of the preeminent trade publication 'Boardwatch Magazine' noted this about our design, "You'll enjoy taking a look at The Rest Of Us, a FirstClass BBS ... Administrators Michael Zastrow et al have put together a nifty board that impresses from the start.'' The Rest Of Us BBS was designed and customized to serve nearly 700 members of The Chicago Area Macintosh Users' Group. Three years of being the systems administrator meeting the needs of this group has helped to place Seeing Specially Graphics on the leading edge of GUI telecommunications. The Rest Of Us BBS Click on splash screen for a look at Electronic Trainer desktop. Electronic Trainer is an interactive BBS for sports medicine professionals. It is a private bulletin board system operated by Cramer Products, Inc. Cramer Products leads the way and sets the standards in sports medicine and physical education supplies. Quality Online Forum is a computer service developed and operated by American Informatics, Inc. It is designed to be a one-stop source of information for business professionals who are interested in quality improvement and productivity. Quality Online Forum A Women's BBS was launched on Christmas day of 1994. The particular design challenges of this BBS involved the settings documents and custom forms which needed to be as useful and attractive for Windows users as for Mac users. The Macintosh software currently permits slightly more creative use of custom graphics and sounds than does the Windows client. A Women's BBS Seeing Specially Graphics BBS was developed to provide clients, associates and staff with 24 hour access to projects-in-progress and timely customer support. FirstClass was chosen to reliably interface with our clients' various OS platforms and their varied levels of online expertise. Seeing Specially Graphics BBS