2006
This was my first commercial project and boy this was a lot of work. The result however was worth it. The website has a PHP backbone and uses content from the MySQL database and from html template files, which was a requirement. The partner-network feature required new skills as it is a matrix relationship: If the user searches for partners in a particular country then there can be partners with offices in that country but other times a company does business in a country without having an office there. Regional offices should be shown first. When displaying an individual partner company profile, the countries are listed where they do business including links to the regional offices. An admin interface enables easy setup of the database.
I was not building the project on top of an existing solution, it was a complete development from scratch without any external libraries. My biggest worries where on security and browser compatibility. Especially the latter was evolving quickly in 2006 while CSS was just getting started. CSS browser-switches were not an official feature but browsers could be tricked into ignoring sections of a css stylesheet. Luckily the project seems to have hit a good point in time and used the right techniques: it was online and updated from 2006 to 2015 without any issues on common browsers.
