Client

Provient Marketing
Website: http://www.provientmarketing.com
Project Duration: 5 weeks

Project Description

Peggy, owner of Provient Marketing was looking for a fresh new look that was consistent with her brand. Through our design process we were able to produce a beautiful and functional website. This site has many customizations, such as rotating images on the home page and custom rotating images on the interior pages. Peggy now has full control of all her content and can easily update her website at anytime.

Client

Tradecraft Builders
Website: http://www.tradecraftbuilders.com
Project Duration: 1 week

Project Description

TradecraftBuilders.com was what we call a website face lift. They had most of the content and images ready but they wanted a fresher design that more reflected the quality of their work. We discussed the basic ideas and game up with this design. We also made it so they could easily change content, add portfolio images and change pictures.

Tradecraft Builders was an absolute pleasure to work with. Trent the owner is an awesome guy and you can tell they put a lot of effort into their jobs. I highly recommend their services.

Client

Diction For Singers
Website: http://www.dictionforsingers.com
Project Duration: 8 weeks

Project Description

DictionForSingers.com is an ecommerce website developed on the Magento Community platform. Our client had a very specific look and feel concept for the site. Besides a custom design, we also created several front end and back end custom modules. Each module was designed and built with Magento best practices in mind.

Client

Streamline Install
Website: http://www.streamlineinstall.com
Project Duration: 4 weeks

Client

Great Pacific Packaging
Website: http://www.greatpacificpackaging.com
Project Duration: 2 weeks

Project Description

Full ecommerce website with over 1500 products. Integrated back office ordering and customer management system.

Requirements

• Quick website build. Less than 2 weeks allowed.
• Convert the existing template into a custom Magento template.
• Back office catalog and product management.
• One button reorder for existing customers.
• Real-time sales tax look-ups for Washington state.
• Real-time Fedex shipping cost look ups.
• Custom product list to show multiple products.
• Custom clear cart button.

Project Overview

The primary objective for the client was to have the website fully operational and taking live orders within 2 weeks from the start date. Based on the feature set that Great Pacific Packaging wanted we decided to implement Magento. The project required several customizations to the standard Magento installation. These included a custom site design, custom product list view, a custom clear cart button for the shopping cart and real-time Washington state sales tax calculations.

How Subversion Works

Subversion is an open source version control system. It is a centralized system for sharing information. At its core is a repository, which is a central store of data. The repository stores information in the form of a filesystem tree—a typical hierarchy of files and directories. Any number of clients may connect to the repository, and then read or write to these files.

What makes the Subversion repository special is that it remembers every change ever written to it. This allows you to recover older versions of your files and examine the history of how and when your data changed, and who changed it.

To manage the multiple file versions, Subversion uses a Copy-Modify-Merge model as an alternative to locking. In this model, each users client reads the repository and creates a personal working copy of the file or project. Users then work in parallel, modifying their private copies. Finally, the private copies are merged together into a new, final version. The version control system often assists with the merging, but ultimately a human being is responsible for making it happen correctly.

TortoiseSVN In Action

Magento Out of The Box Features

• Marketing Promotions and Tools
• Search Engine Optimizations
• Catalog Management
• Product Browsing
• International Support
• Shipping
• Customer Service
• Order Management
• Analytics and Reporting
• Site Management
• Catalog Browsing
• Mobile Commerce
• Checkout
• Payment
• Customer Accounts

Here at GoSolid we like to talk a lot about reducing risk. All of the out of the box features that come standard, with open source software like Magento mean that we can deliver a better product faster and for less money. We invite you to come by our office for a demo of the Magento system in action.

Client

CraigsToolbox.com

Website: http://www.craigstoolbox.com

Project Duration: 6 weeks

Project Description

An upgrade to the existing static site, the new site should have a full eCommerce checkout, membership database and the extensions should be IE and Firefox compatible and communicate with the database directly.

Requirements

• Firefox & Internet Explorer compatible
• Simple no hassle sign up form
• Membership database "My Account" access
• Reoccurring payment options through Google checkout and Paypal checkout
• Browser extensions customized to customer profile
• Easy to use administration interface to modify client accounts and edit website content
• It must 'just work', a very limited number of bugs and issues out of the gate.

Project Overview

This project was about coordinating several different technologies to work together. To mention a few .NET ecommerce platform, JSON & XML web services, Firefox extension API, IE Browser Helper Objects, SQL Server, Google checkout and Paypal checkout.

After reviewing the project requirements we established that an open source ecommerce solution with dynamic membership profile functionality was the best solution. After review of several open source solutions, we decided to implement NopCommerce. This solution offered us much of the functionality that we needed for this project including a simple content management system so the website could be modified without a developer.

One of the primary requirements was to have a simple no hassle sign up form. There should be no barrier to sign up. All validation and payment should be done after the trial has expired. To do this, we implemented an email verification system that would disable the the account if the customer did not have a valid email address. Of course the customer could sign in and adjust the accounts email if they happened to enter it incorrectly.

At the end of the project we were able to deliver a very nice solution. CraigsToolbox now has over 5000 members and is an awesome asset to the web.