Creating Effective Searchable Databases
for the Web
Speaker: Dave Gallerizzo, Vice President, Consulting, Fig Leaf Software

Your Web Site (or That of Your Client) Needs a New Database. The data sources may include relational databases (such as SQL Server, MS Access, and Oracle), XML files, legacy systems, Web pages, MS Office documents, Adobe PDF files, images, and syndicated content on remote systems. How will you import, filter, format, display, manage, maintain, update, and archive the data? What differences will platform, browser technology, and data format make?

You Want To Make the End User's Job Easy. How should you go about selecting an appropriate online search tool(s) for your users? Do you need more than one user interface? Should you incorporate graphical display options?

What About Security, Uptime, Cost, and Scalability?

Join us Saturday, February 17, to get the information you need to begin creating a plan to build an effective searchable database for the Web.

Speaker: As Vice President of the Consulting Services Division at Fig Leaf Software, Dave Gallerizzo oversees the growth and development of the company's consulting services, Web application development, and systems integration capabilities. He is also responsible for guiding Fig Leaf Software's consulting resources toward developing the best Web solutions that meet client needs. As a certified instructor and developer with 14 years of experience with Macromedia and Adobe products, Dave has a deep understanding of solutions development, technology, and entrepreneurial strength.

Prior to joining Fig Leaf in 1997, Dave Gallerizzo designed and implemented custom client-server software for several national trade associations headquartered in the Washington, DC, area. Dave holds a BS in computer science from the University of Maryland.

Fig Leaf Software, founded in 1992, is a premier full-service Web design, development, and training company. Its Web design and development projects involve understanding business needs, gathering requirements, designing for usability, and applying the proper technology to solve client needs. Fig Leaf technical capabilities and experience include client- and server-side programming using a wide range of operating systems, Web servers, and database applications.  

Headquartered in Washington, DC, Fig Leaf has a second office in Atlanta and training centers nationwide. More than 20,000 professionals in Web design and application programming have benefitted from Fig Leaf training.

Fig Leaf has created Web sites, portals, intranets, extranets, and similar applications for hundreds of associations, nonprofits, government agencies, corporations, and educational institutions including AOL, CNN, Epilepsy Foundation, PBS, U.S. Senate, Voice of America, American Chemical Society, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, General Electric, Association of American Colleges and Universities, Verizon, Macy's, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes, Netscape, World Resources Institute, Federal Aviation Administration, U.S. Department of Justice, and Booz Allen Hamilton.

Visit the Web site at http://www.figleaf.com.

Location: One-half block south of the Cineplex Odeon Uptown movie theatre on Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, DC.

Metrorail--Cleveland Park Station on the Red Line (on Connecticut Avenue, just 1.5 blocks north of meeting site) 

Parking: Very small lot, off Macomb St., to left of library. 

Free and open to all 

Several times a year a smaller group (usually about 8 to 12) goes to Nanny O'Brien's (directly across the street from the library at 3319 Connecticut Avenue, NW, 202-686-9189, open 2 pm Saturday to 2 am Sunday) or another local establishment for continued conversation, networking, and refreshment following the meeting. (Participants pay for their own beverages and food.) 

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