Informational and store site for an ethnic arts gallery.
The gallery wanted to display photographs of their items in a gallery. There is also a small catalog of products for sale, information about their art, and information about tours they coordinate.
I was building Zen Cart sites at the time, and the client needed gallery and blog features, which Zen does not provide. This is a melange of Zen Cart, WordPress, and Gallery 2. It proved to be a difficult design, having to work with such different tools. I soon switched to Drupal, which offers all these features and more, and haven't looked back.
Added enhanced features to an online Italian products importer's web store.
Created database backend, content management, inventory management, searching, and various sales, marketing, and presentation tools. Uses outside payment authorization (Cart Manager). Content management and blogging are based on custom framework I created.
The owner has experimented with various innovative features over the years, including a gift registry, gift basket, stories and movies about artisans, recipes, and product selections. Most of their products are from small artisnal vendors, and many are featured in articles to create a bond with the customer.
Lola needed a combination of photo galleries, blogging, announcements, and stories from customers, in order to explain what it is she does. I built the original site, and it has since been expanded by other developers.
