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ZenTaraTea is a local tea shop in Bethesda, MD.  Since 2008, I have been visiting ZenTaraTea to purchase loose leaf tea (Oolong is my favorite).  When it was time for them to revamp their website I volunteered to help out.

ZenTaraTea.com provides customers with over 100 different specialty teas from around the world.  Customers can learn about tea through the Tea Knowledge section and the Zen Tara blog.  ZenTaraTea.com allows customers to sign up for Tea of the Month Clubs and Tea Tasting Events.

Nick Riotto of 829 Studios did yet another great job with the design of the site.  Artin Petrossian and I worked closely with Guy from ZenTaraTea to provide a front-end his customers could enjoy and a back-end that he and his staff could use with ease.

This has been a fun and challenging project.  I have learned more about e-commerce and have learned a ton about tea.  We will continue to tweak the site as time goes on.  Feel free to email Guy or I about any feedback you may have.

The latest project I have been working on has officially launched: EatByTweet.com.

EatByTweet is a real-time restaurant information source. Utilizing Twitter, EatByTweet aggregates restaurant tweets and specials from eateries throughout the country. Nick Riotto of 829 Studios designed the site while Artin Petrossian and I did the development. We used PHP, CSS, Javascript and the framework CodeIgniter to build the site.

I hope that EatByTweet can be a go-to location for Foodies looking for specials and for Deal-seekers looking for free and discounted food. I have been using the site to find happy hours and where my favorite food trucks are in DC.

I am happy to announce that the CostToDrive Re/Max widget is live!  For the past couple of months I have been working with Jim Kovarik,  founder of CostToGo, on a cost to drive calculator at CostToDrive.com.  When Jim was approached by Re/Max, the international real estate company, to build a widget I was tasked with the product management and development.

The widget provides potential home buyers the ability to calculate the cost of their commute to work from their potential new home.

Thanks go to Wes Schauble for the design and Artin Petrossian for the CSS layout.

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