Fire Mark Circle of Americas
A website for the Fire Mark Circle of Americas showcasing Fire Mark history, auctions, member features and newsletter archives.
Fire Mark Circle of Americas (FMCA) website - a PHP-based web application for managing fire marks history, member information, newsletters, and auctions. Uses a traditional MVC architecture with PSR-4 autoloading.
Key Technologies:
- PHP 7.4+ with Composer w/MySQL database
- Session-based authentication with role-based access control
- Vanilla JavaScript and jQuery (no modern build tools)
- Tailwind CSS (admin panel), custom CSS (public site)
- AI Driven Newsletter Summary Engine using LLMs
- Uses Groq API w/ LLM Llama 3.3 70B to analyze a AI driven SPAM score to weed out junk.
Accomplishments:
- An 87% increase in traffic in just 3 short weeks due to new SEO optimized design.
- Easy to use tool for non-technical owners of the site to update content easily.