Case Study: Budget Communications
Services Provided: Site development and design, database design and integration, site maintenance, site hosting

Budget Communications publishes a successful publication, "The Jobs Book" and desired to have a companion web application to facilitate collecting and presenting job listings via the web.

CSI worked with Budget staff to create an automated system that would allow the customer to edit and approve job listings as well as modify subscriber information. The Cold Fusion system also incorporates the following functions: an employer data entry screen for businesses or Budget staff to enter job listing records into the database; an employer review and modify screen for Budget staff to use to edit or delete a selected job listing; a subscriber information form, for individuals wishing to subscribe to the on-line database; and an authorize subscriber screen, so that Budget staff can approve subscriptions entered by site visitors. A key part of the project involved designing a system that the customer could maintain; CSI designed a secure Administration area for Budget staff that provides for data entry and modification. In order to eliminate duplication of data entry, CSI also created a data export function so that the database could be electronically transferred for print publication. CSI created a password-protected job listing search that enables only paid subscribers to search the database.