For a period, I worked at Lycos, a once-celebrated dot-com company that gained its initial success as a web search engine and web portal established in 1994. Fast forward to the present, and Lycos has expanded into a network offering email, web hosting, social networking, and entertainment websites. Additionally, it has embarked on initiatives to enter the wearable IoT market, striving to maintain competitiveness in today’s internet landscape.
Based on the provided design, I was tasked with crafting the new appearance for Lycos Mail. As I focused on developing the front-end interfaces, another engineer diligently upgraded the mail’s back-end from the Yii framework to the Yii2 framework.
Extendable Login Screen
At the start of the project we weren’t sure how many ‘views’ there would be floating around on the homepage or if we would need to make new views down the line to display additional information. Because of this I wrote the javascript
Client-Side Error Handling
In order to reduce the load on the server and prevent against rudimentary malicious attacks I took advantage of both HTML5 form elements and spent some time writing a few Javascript validators.
WhoWhere
WhoWhere is a Local Search tool using the Yellow Pages API, the Yii2 Framework and Leaflet.js. Search results can be viewed in list format or on the full page map.
Collaborating closely with the creative director, we successfully transformed the visual aesthetics and functionality of an existing legacy product. Beginning with the original code, which was migrated to Yii2, my role involved refactoring all the front-end code, attaining our targeted design goal, and integrating Leaflet.
Original
The original site had used Google Maps, however due to API limitations we decided to transition over to Leaflet.
Refresh
News Verticals
This project leverages a single core codebase, a set of shared styles, and Grunt configurations to develop seven distinct verticals. Each site maintains an identical HTML structure, relying solely on CSS to achieve visual differentiation.
