Latest iteration of klevo.sk

Posted on February 15, 2015February 4, 2020 by Robert Starsi

To start 2015 in style, I’ve got a new theme for this website. Build from ground up to put the focus on my portfolio, clear typography and content. CSS were hand crafted, mobile first. On the backend – good old WordPress. Since all the cool internet kids are switching to https – I am following suit. For extra speed (and a free SSL certificate) I am utilizing CloudFlare to sit in front of the host.

All and all, I am satisfied and I hope all this new shiny tech will motivate me to write some quality content this year. Stay tuned!

Homepage serves to inform the visitor about what this website is about, put the most important content forward as well as create a good first impression.

EQAFE – Ecommerce

Posted on January 2, 2013May 30, 2015 by Robert Starsi

This is one of the first projects where I started using Rails in production. EQAFE developed—over the years—from a simple checkout page to sell a single book to an ecommerce platform featuring thousands of products, affiliate program, gifts and more.

Deliverables:

UI design and implementation.
Backend design and implementation (Rails).
Automated test suite.
~4 years running in production (DevOps).

Tour

Front page provides an index of the latest products.

A lot of the functionality is neatly tucked away in the always accessible dropdown menus.

Rails stats

eqafe-code-stats — It’s interesting to observe how each project can have quite a different allocation of the amount of code. Here for example, test vise, most of the code is located in controller tests – this tells us a lot about the app itself – a lot of the control flow is located in the controllers, most of the interesting stuff happens there, like for example users are redirected to different locations depending on their starting point and actions.

DIP Lite: E-learning Platform

Posted on October 19, 2012February 4, 2020 by Robert Starsi

DIP Lite is a free e-learning platform. Its fully automated in-browser experience connects the users with a personally assigned “buddy”: an experienced person that overviews and assist the user throughout the course. The user walks the course on her own pace as well as engage in daily exercises, complete with email notifications and communication with the course buddy provided by the course platform.

For this project I delivered the following:

Initial design of the flow and functionality of the platform based on the goals set by the client.
Mockups of the UI and user flows.
Graphic design.
Logo creation.
Implementation within Rails.
Automated test suite.
Further feature development and updating/upkeep of the codebase.
Running this project in production for 3 years (DevOps).

Tour

After the lightning fast registration users immediately start with Lesson 1.

Reviewing user's feedback. — Reviewing user’s feedback.

Rails stats

DIP Pro – Online Course Delivery Platform

Posted on July 10, 2011February 4, 2020 by Robert Starsi

E-learning project similar to DIP Lite but for more serious and advanced students, providing much more features including credit card payments, commission payouts, file (course material) delivery, multiple different courses divided into years and months and API for integration with other projects.

Deliverables:

Initial design of the flow and functionality of the platform based on the goals set by the client.
Mockups of the UI and user flows.
Graphic design.
Logo creation.
Implementation within Rails.
Automated test suite.
Further feature development and updating/upkeep of the codebase.
Running this project in production for ~4 years (DevOps).