PC Guru: The Online Learning Portal
The PC Guru online learning portal is designed to help potential buyers and owners of laptops and desktops to get to know their Intel Inside machines more intimately. Consisting of expert articles, reviews and detailed product information, the portal targets an audience ranging from the casual user to the more proficient ‘tech-geek’.
With Alcassoft’s extensive background in content management systems, having built the comprehensive SOPHIA cms, the PC Guru site features a simplified content management console for the website administrator or webmaster to update the website content, i.e. articles, promotional materials, images and electronic brochures, as well as a means for external contributors or experts to sign in and share their expert opinions and advice with the website’s visitors.
The system was developed using Groovy, an agile dynamic language for the Java platform, on the Grails framework. These, together with the Spring and Hibernate frameworks that they ride on, are open-source technologies, in line with the Alcassoft policy of utilising the latest technologies without incurring sky-high costs for the client.
The PC Guru online learning portal is a joint effort between Lowyat.net and Intel Malaysia. The development of the portal was done by Alcassoft in collaboration with Firebolt Studio Sdn Bhd, which provided the user interface design and graphics, for Priority Communications Sdn Bhd, a public relations and business communications consultant.
