High Frequency Trading – Thomson Reuters

December 7th, 2009

About the Author

I’m Dan Smart, a 32 year old website developer, based in Swansea, UK. I have worked in the software development industry for over 10 years, with experience in web development, mobile handset development, and mobile networks. My current focus is web development, working freelance with a number of clients, working both on design and implementation of websites and web applications with systems such as Wordpress, Joomla, and CodeIgniter. When I’m not developing websites and software, I am a keen runner, involved with mime performance group Innovo Physical Theatre, and also actively involved in my local church.

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Brief:
Implement a multimedia focus topic microsite for Thomson Reuters (outsourced from Coreware Ltd). The first topic site is on “High Frequency Trading”. This site has so far proved highly successful for Thomson Reuters.

Features:
Developed an entirely widgetised home page, which allowed the client simple control over which widgets (panels) were displayed on the home page.
Features developed include:
– category posts widget, displaying summaries of posts in a category inside a widget
– tabbed RSS widget, displaying multiple RSS feeds in a widget
– multiple question Polls widget
– documents widget, showing documents uploaded, with icons and descriptions.
– incorporated supplied Thomson Reuters flash applets, videos (added via WordPress shortcodes).

Admin-side:
– developed an RSS import function, allowing RSS news items to be imported as WordPress posts.

Technologies used:
Wordpress, xHTML, CSS, JQuery, PHP, MySQL, Photoshop

Entry posted: Monday, December 7th, 2009 at 11:14

Category: Portfolio.

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