Corporate site launch Jul19 '05
I am happy to announce a recent corporate site launch, which I have been independently working on for the past few months.
Despite all the worked I’ve poured into it, it’s still just the beginning. We are looking to allow for a lot more dynamic capabilities, such as uploading artwork with a web form, generating invoices directly from user input, allowing specific clients to log in and view previous orders, and allowing for some simple online purchasing.
The online purchasing aspect is the hard part, since we’re not dealing entirely with straight-forward products. Rather, each product can be customized in it’s own way.
So, not only do we have to handle custom artwork from the client, we have to handle custom text, which goes on each award, and a few other things.
It won’t be easy.
But I’ve made big progress, so far. I stripped out all the nested tables and "spacer gifs," and applied clean, semantic markup, in combination with CSS for appearance and layout.
This makes future updates a breeze.
I am using XHTML Strict, with a Content-Type of application/xhtml+xml.
The backend has witnessed drastic changes too. The old site... well... there was no backend on the old site. It was all static HTML files.
I created a database for the products, which makes product management simple. And at the outset, it allows clients and customers to search through products, instead of having to dig through page after page.
Of course, searching is just one aspect that a database allows for. I can’t begin to explain all the things it allows developers to create.
So, the foundation is set. Now it’s time to build up.
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Josh, thanks for the suggestions. I am certainly still developeing, so these things, and others, will be taken into consideration. Due to th ... Read more.
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