Bookmarc is an online Architectural specification library containing thousands of product binders and CAD downloadables from the entire spectrum of the building and construction supplies industry.

Bapple designed an innovative web interface to give architects and designers a quick method of searching for and previewing suppliers then adding them as bookmarks to their project lists. Codem designed a system to support this with room to scale. We implemented the site to be quick on the front and the back - interactions via AJAX using jQuery supported by a stack that runs Nginx, one of the fastest web platforms in the world.

Codem also designed and implemented the monitored hosting infrastructure.

Key points

• Bespoke user interface implementation using jQuery
• Super-fast web serving
• Ability to handle massive uploads (tested up to 100MB)
• System design to support fast download of CAD files and supporting files
• Interaction with third party document storage service
• Wordpress theme development
• Single Sign On
• Image thumbnailing on demand with gallery module
• Vimeo web service integration
• Facebook and Twitter sharing blog post integration
• Search platform geared to supplier and service discovery
• Content Management System integration
• Ad serving application integration

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