SAparty – 2000

In April of 2000 I laid out the architecture for what would be on of the most technologically advanced web sites of it’s era.  The San Antonio Party Guide (saparty.com) exceeded 1 million visitors for over 13 months and was a monumental trendsetter sparking countless imitations.

Highlights of this project:

• Introduced the first Rich Media Advertisement Platform (music/video) & Online Social Network in San Antonio. ( May 8, 2001)
• One of the first local sites to secure relationships with national advertisers such as Red Bull, Liz Claiborne, and Jack Daniels
• Through strategic on/offline guerrilla marketing the site exceeded over 1 million visitors/month for 13 months.
• Local Event Promotions would draws crowds of over 500 on average
• Over 45,000 emails in the newsletter list
• Created key B2B Relationship with AOL/Time Warner as their entertainment information provider for the Interactive TV roll out, and local AOL/TW portals using saparty.com’s content. (now known as widgets)

The technology running this application was later sold and the site was shut down.  All in all the experience of creating such a site brought along some of greatest business relationships that I still maintain today.  It was one heck of a ride while it lasted.

The San Antonio Current 1999

One of my favorite web site projects, the 2nd version of the San Antonio Current.   In April of 1999 I was called by the San Antonio Current, San Antonio’s leading Alternative News Weekly to assist in creating their online presence.  What happened after that was a first for San Antonio.  We created the first weekly E-Zine for San Antonio.  Complete with a Content Management System, an Archive Solution, Site Search, Forums you name it the site had it all.   Here are just a few of highlights from this project:

* Each department had the ability to manage their portion of the site

* Allowed updates on the fly

* A complete archive solution

* Web Site Training for the staff

* Parse and create web friendly documents  from print version via custom software.  This was really neat the user hit save in quark and it made a web friendly document.  Remember that this happened in 1999.