Case study on Community Site For Coaches And Influencers | Educational Website Development

Case study for
Community Site For Coaches
And Influencers
Brainvire Infotech Pvt. Ltd
www.brainvire.com
http://www.brainvire.com © 2014 Brainvire Infotech Pvt. Ltd info@brainvire.com

Client Requirement
The client is a professional training and personality development company based
out in Canada and demanded a complete re-designing and re-development of
their existing website with few enhancements in features and functionality along
with security analysis of their site.
After evaluating the client’s need, the site was redesigned to ensure their website
was reaching the prospective clients and providing the intutitive browing
experience to their customers. Also, the uptime and performance of the site was
taken into consideration. The site was completely secured for customer privacy
and was protected from other type of web attacks that can interrupt the online
business operations.

Client Requirement
 Understanding of their existing site and providing solution related to user
experience and security
 Upgrade PHP server version from 5.3 to 5.4
 Incorporation of new features and upgradation
 Website security and enhanced user browsing experience
 Improved user interface and navigation
 Speed and availability

Project Challenges
 Incorporating web usability principles while developing numerous features
designed for enhancing the users’ experience.
 Understanding client’s existing system while performing the upgradation of
features and functionality.
 Existing plug-in upgradation and making changes to the website code while
handling conflicts.
 Allowing the site to handle good amount of users at the same time without
reduction in performance.
 SSL integration within the site.
 Ensuring user privacy and safeguarding their content.
 Safe and secure transfer of data.

Technologies Used
Operating System & Server
Management Red Hat Linux OS, Multi-Server Architecture with
Staging & Production Environment through Version
Controlling releases, Server Optimization, Security &
SSL Implementation, Scheduler for Back-ups, Alert
Monitoring System Integration, Server Performance
Tuning at regular intervals, Software Firewall
Configuration & Maintenance
Development Tools &
Environments PHP5+, WordPress 3.9.2, AJAX, Java Script, HTML5,
CSS3 etc.
Database MYSQL Database Server, DB Clustering, DB
Optimization, Master Slave Replication, Query
Optimization, Scheduler for Backups -

Manpower
Project Leader 1
Developers 2
Designers 1
Quality Assurance Testers 1

Planning
The following four-tier development approach was adopted to equip the site with
numerous features and functionality mentioned below:
 The Database layer containing MySQL Server Database, Tables and so on.
 The Data Access layer containing the Data Access Objects responsible for
accessing data from the database.
 The Business Logic layer consisting of all the business logic procedures for
various modules.
 The User Interface layer which forms the Graphical User Interface of the
website.

Architecture
The design approach was built around PHP, AJAX and MySQL due to their
performance, security, scalability and the nature of the website. In addition to this,
the development structure was specifically implemented to facilitate the ‘Faster to
Market’ transition of such concepts. Modules like Members, Events, Member
Resources etc. were developed in PHP such that they can be executed directly
from the UI layer. In order to most effectively access the database in an object-oriented
context, an interface translating the object logic to the relational logic was
used to communicate with the relational databases in an object-oriented manner.
An intermediary abstraction layer was created for accessing data from the
database. Stored procedures were used only for complex retrieval of data from
multiple tables and were entirely avoided with conditional syntax to ensure smooth
performance of the website. The UI layer was kept free of any business logic with
images, applications and data being called from their respective servers. Sub-domains
were used for the different areas of the website to guarantee scalability.

Development Highlights
The project is developed using WordPress open source due to the
online nature of the website. Privacy and security of the site was also
ensured strictly. The entire framework was kept highly scalable in order
to provide adaptability & ease while incorporating new features.
Extensive pre- development research was carried out to make the entire
database compatible. Web usability guidelines were strictly adhered
during development and the interface was made easily navigable
through judicious use of CSS and HTML controls. The site was
developed and fully functional in a span of 4 months with instant
improvement in the website as well as web server performance.

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