AbsolutelyNew

Website redesign, development, and ongoing maintenance for world-class consumer products company website. Website features custom Flash application for browsing and playing video animations of products, integrated product catalog, and custom landing pages with conversion tracking integration.

Process

Design

Design mock-ups were created from client wireframes and content.
Dynamic prototypes were developed for home and subpage templates, tested, and reviewed.

Development

Content, structure, presentation and behavior was develped using custom framework developed in PHP5 and Dreamweaver.
OS Commerce driven product catalog was skinned to match site presentation.
Flash animation was developed to display and browse static product images and a flash video player to play client-provided FLV videos of product animations.

Testing

The site presentation was tested in multiple browsers. Client test completed user accetance testing.

Release

The content, structure, presentation and bahviour was released to production after client approval. Site was monitored and issues were fixed as part of maintenance.

Maintenance/Enhancements

A maintenance and enhancements plan was created with the client and ongoing changes are spec'd, developed and tested on a development server and released to production after client review and approval.
Issues are tracked using a web-based issue tracking system that provides client with email notifications and updates on the status of issues. It also manages files and tracks client approvals.

Technical Details

PHP 5 custom framework
OS Commerce
XHTML 1.0
Full CSS Presentation layer
Google Analytics, Yahoo, and Commision Junction conversion tracking
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