Juanita Jean’s

When Texas writer Susan Bankston decided to take her nationally known political satire in a new direction, Riveredge developed a web site with looks designed to match her irreverent writing style, while providing tools to streamline the process of blogging for a large and rapidly growing audience.

Juanita Jean's - "The World's Most Dangerous Beauty Salon" - is armed with a comment system designed to automatically keep out persistent spammers and allow the author to manually moderate which comments are acceptable and which are not. At the same time, however, the site allows for the "white-listing" (automatic approval of) all comments made by visitors with whom Ms. Bankston is familiar.

The administrative back-end of this site also includes the ability to create user accounts with a huge variety of authority levels, customizable down to the most granular detail. This could, for instance, allow an acquaintance (or employee) to perform a relatively administrator-like activity such as exporting information gathered from online forms, while being prevented from accidentally changing content settings.