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E-Commerce Customization at NutHouseScraps.com

admin — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 23:25:03 +0000

Terry Muse, the owner of NutHouseScraps.com asked me to help her put a ZenCart into her new e-commerce website. She had a fairly long list of additions and custom coding work to make it deliver exactly what she wanted to her members.

She picked out ZenCart because she was already familiar with how the front end and administration worked. And this time, I provide the back end skills to get it up and running for her, and to keep it that way.

SNL Scrappers Use Web for Collaboration

admin — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 23:00:44 +0000

I designed the SNL Scrappers web site with several goals in mind. They needed a place where participating members could upload their contributions each month, and where only the members who contributed would download them.

But they also wanted to be a repository for tutorials and other information. So they needed a web site that could take their private uploads, manage their downloading needs without human intervention, and still function as a place for digital scrapbooking tutorials that anyone could get to.

The web site is re-dressed every month by one of the SNL Members. They are keeping an image archive of what the front pages have looked like for each month so people can enjoy how lovely it looks!

I maintain and help with the skinning the site anew each month. All back-end modifications and additions, as well as the help files, are all things I developed for them.

SNL Scrappers is a free group where everyone who wishes to participate each month designs and contributes a set of digital scrapbooking backgrounds and elements all made from the same color palette. At the end of each month, you have a huge amount of things, done in a variety of styles, which all coordinate. Each member who contributes that month gets to download everything from everyone from that month, all for free.

New Event Website

admin — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 03:33:06 +0000

I just finished the website up for the annual Sustaining Pastoral Excellence Forum just in time to take registrations online. It’s the first time they’ve been able to take credit cards, and PayPal made that simple and allowed online registrations.

Pastor Jack W. Hayford is keynoting this one-day event for the Pastors of the Central Valley. The website was designed to match the printed material.

TTS Website Goes Live

admin — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:34:18 +0000

Thomas Technologies Solutions (TTS), an IT consulting company, has a web presence for the first time. It’s clean and quick, and coordinates with the same colors and designs found on their business cards and brochures.

They want to use it as a point of contact as well as providing information and useful content to their clients.

American-Retro’s Clean Look

admin — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:08:43 +0000

American-Retro.com – a cool shop selling faithful steel reproductions of pedal cars, old-school coolers, Aeroflight wagons, and more – needed a new shopping cart and a streamlined web presence.

As we tackled the project, I realized they also were going to need new copy for all the new things they were adding. There had been precious little space for descriptions and marketing copy in their first website.

Using the same images their photographer took for the print catalog, I moved the website into a database-driven shopping cart, gave several sized views of every item, and had some fun writing the copy for these very fun retro items. The new streamlined interface was easy on the eyes and much easier for customers to use.

What’s their best selling feature? You mean besides the old-fashioned classic pedal rides? It’s FREE SHIPPING to the continental US. And that’s no small thing when you’re shipping steel pedal cars.