e-Commerce Website

Client rodsnreelsnthings.ca

Project e-Commerce Website
Circa 2003 01

Statement of Problem
rodsnreelsnthings.ca had developed their own e-commerce site, based on PERL scripts cobbled together from various online sources. It was a fine effort for someone who'd never touched a computer 3 years prior; but it lacked a shopping cart, the checkout page was 250K long and it wasn't secure. Moreover, the manual maintenance of the catalog was a nightmare, which regularly resulted in broken pages.

Solution
The Last Byte installed and configured a professional, full-featured, open source e-commerce package, customising it to the client's specifications. The major features:

• Multi-Currency
• Multi-Lingual (not included in this configuration)
• Up to six images (thumbnail and regular) for each product
• SSL Certificate with TrustLogo installed
• Shipping costs dynamically calculated through Canada Post web service
• Completely web-based administration module
• Addition and maintenance of products and categories
• Live monitoring of users
• Manual marshalling of orders
• Customised meta-tags and page titles for search engine optimization

Tools and Technologies
PHP, MySQL, Apache, Linux, Paint Shop Pro, Dreamweaver MX, XML, HTML, CSS