Design & Implementation:Ulster County Government wanted a friendly site that would increase access to public information while promoting county tourism. Content of the site was based on the annual Ulster County Tourism Guide and the Ulster County Government Directory.

The source files for the searchable tourism directory were provided in WordPerfect text files. I&S parsed the text files into a comma delimited file which was ported into a FoxPro relational database file to add new search fields. The completed database was converted to a flat file format for import into Web Catalogue®, which provides extremely fast data retrieval by maintaining a memory resident file in the server RAM.

I&S is currently developing a web based remote update feature which will provide the Ulster County Tourism office with the ability to immediately update the database as they receive changes.

The county area maps are based on public domain source files made available through the census bureau. The tourism database search results include a key map that links each tourism listing to the appropriate area map.

Hosting:The Ulster County Government is hosted on an EMI UNIX server located in Schenectady, NY, the tourism database resides on an I&S Windows NT server located in Kingston NY.

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Design & Implementation:Michael Shamansky, Booksellers (MSB) sells imported fine art books and publications to libraries, colleges, and universities. MSB wished to augment their print catalogue and bulletins with a searchable online database. Graphics were minimized to accommodate low resolution monitors and low bandwidth modems.

MSB maintains its database of more than 5,000 titles in Condor, a legacy DOS database. The database records were imported into FoxPro as an ASCII file. Working within FoxPro, I&S extracted information from the source files to create additional data fields. The enhanced database was converted to a flat file format for import into Web Catalogue®, which provides extremely fast data retrieval by maintaining a memory resident file in the server RAM.

Maintenance: MSB continues to use Condor database for their day to day operations, routinely updating the web database using an I&S developed conversion program. The program automatically converts the data records to FoxPro, extracts information to create additional search fields, and ports the records to Web Catalogue for FTP transfer to the server.

Hosting:Michael Shamansky Bookseller is hosted on an I&S PowerMac running Webstar with Web Catalogue by Pacific Coast Software.

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Design & Implementation: The Info River Valley initiative provides business and marketing support for the emerging multimedia technology industry of the Mid Hudson River Valley. The Info River Valley site was designed and implemented by DeSiena Digital Design studio working with Ives & Shaughnessy to produce the online registry, and with Sundog Productions and CD Design for special design elements.

The online registry and search was developed and programmed by Jim Shaughnessy. The database was developed in Visual FoxPro. The CGI coding for the remote updating and search features was executed using the Web Connect object class library.

Hosting:The Info River Valley web site is hosted on an I&S Windows NT running Microsoft Internet Information Server.

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Design & Implementation: Rondout Savings Bank wanted to provide a site that reflected their community values and commitment to personal service. Priority was placed on providing a site that was easy to navigate, downloaded quickly, and provided useful content.

I&S provided the programming and production services for the site. Jim Shaughnessy wrote FoxPro routines for the mortgage, loan, and savings calculators and for the automatic date feature.

Hosting:The Rondout Savings Bank web site is hosted on an I&S Windows NT running Microsoft Internet Information Server.

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