Web Design Projects
SUEDE
SUEDE is a handbag design studio with an office and showroom in Downtown Toronto.
- Custom CMS written in PHP 5 & MySQL 5
- Rich layout editor for blog publishing and newsletters
- Mailing list management
- Store finder and store database
- Events and tradeshows
- Layout & design: XHTML + CSS
- Website is completely self-managed.
Acorn Beads
Acorn Beads is a Toronto based wholesale supplier of semi-precious stones, shells, coco, wood and other components.
This custom built ecommerce website allows customers to browse from thousands of products, place orders and make credit card payments through secure encrypted communication. Customers can log in to their account to track orders and view payment history.
There is a powerful content management system behind the scenes that gives the website administrator full control over the website. This involves tasks such as managing user accounts and mailing list, updating the product database and archiving data.
All photographs were taken by our company. Site utilizes PHP, MySQL, XHTML, CSS.
Notes: XHTML compliant website.
Columbia Sportswear (Satellite Site)
Columbia Sportswear has recently introduced a new line of merchandise including insulated products and baby bags.
The licensee — California Innovations — hired our team to develop an online catalog that effectively communicated the story of the established Columbia brand.
The final product lived up to both our client's and Columbia Sportswear's expectation.
The project included a web-based content management system for product updates.
Powered by MySQL database & PHP backend.
DePuy (Johnson & Johnson Medical Products)
Website and CD-ROM production of the DePuy Marketing Communication Guide 2006.
Website Highlights:
- Event Calendars
- Surgeon Fellowship programs
- Visitor Centres
CD-ROM Highlights:
- PC/Mac compatible hybrid media
- CD label design
- Custom icon design
- Autorun setup
Nightfall Canada Landscape Lighting
The website showcases the company's copper and brass landscape lighting fixtures.
Project included
- Website design
- Custom content management system (PHP & MySQL)
- Logo design
- Business card production
Global Spectrum INC
Global Spectrum INC is an architectural fabricator and specialty store fixture company, whose clients include Cartier, Estée Lauder, MAC Cosmetics and The Princess of Wales Theatre (Toronto) among others.
Project Highlights:
- Website redesign based on web standards
- Custom content management system (PHP & MySQL)
- Multimedia CD-ROM
The Handbag Resource
E-commerce website for company providing solutions for computer aided handbag design.
Site features:
- Shopping cart
- Online payment
- Real-time FedEx shipping rates
- Customer accounts
- Order history
- Flash slideshows
- Product Demos
Content management features:
- Product updates
- Order management
- Customer management
- Content updates
Technology: PHP, MySQL, XHTML, CSS, Macromedia Flash, JavaScript, mod_rewrite.
Variations Fashion
We have just updated this ladies fashion wholesale website for the Spring-Summer 2005 season. The website is using a healthy mix of Flash and standard compliant XHTML to achieve a fresh look and meet customer demands.
We also built an easy-to-use user administration panel where the website owner can grant access for buyers to the password protected merchandise area.
Developed in Macromedia Flash MX and PHP. Project includes anti-spam measures and search-engine optimization.
CV Studio
CV Studio is the premier provider of high quality prinitng solutions in Downtown Toronto.
Site is managed by the client through a multimedia publising tool that empowers the administrator to create and publish Flash content.
Developed in Macromedia Flash MX, PHP, MySQL and XML.
CV Studio Administration
This advanced administration and content management system makes Flash content publishing fun. The website editor can create, edit and publish Flash pages, insert images and interactive elements. The most important features:
- Create, edit and publish Flash content
- Upload images and Flash movieclips
- Arrange text, images and objects including stacking order
- Font and color styles
- Embed custom fonts
- Slideshows
- News items
Virtually any kind of multimedia element (audio, video, interactive) can be published by wrapping content into Flash files.
Canadian Energy Regulation Information Service
CERISE is Canada’s leading provider of timely, independent information and analysis concerning energy regulation developments from jurisdictions across Canada and elsewhere.
The original site required a major overhaul due to severe security holes and inadequate procedures that made daily updates inefficient. The website had to remain fully functional during development. These constraints demanded careful planning to ensure services remained uninterrupted.
- Heavily nested tables and legacy markup were replaced with modern style sheet based layout.
- New templating system was introduced to support global changes in a quick and error-free way.
- Members-only pages and documents were made password-protected.
- Automatic cookie-based authentication was implemented for quick member-access.
- New services (document search, feedback, market monitor and survey) were introduced
CERISE Administration Panel
The website is being updated daily and rapidly growing. A powerful administration panel was developed to manage the underlying databases. The interface serves multiple purposes including:
- User management
- Data entry and updates
- Feedback approval and moderation
- Document indexing
- Daily news alert compilation
Project was developed in Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) and Microsoft Access databases.
Mississauga Chiro
Mississauga Chiro is the leading family and sports chiropractic. Their office is located in Mississauga.
This website features Interactive Flash nerve chart, Polls, Quiz, Event Calendar, Patient login and Articles.
A custom-built content management application provides with full access to update and expand the website and fully eliminates the need for a webmaster.
Developed in PHP, MySQL and Macromedia Flash.
The Logica Group
Advanced Flash ActionScript programming with database connectivity for The Logica Group. We took on a challenge to integrate a Flash based product catalog and shopping cart application into the existing web infrastructure.
Features: Macromedia Flash frontend, MySQL database backend with PHP.
Elsa Reia N Studio
Elsa Reia N Studio is a one-stop for retailers interested in fashion accessories. Located in Toronto's fashion district, N Studio offers strategic marketing and product development services.
This interactive Flash website acts as an online showroom and drew attention from many parts of the world. Beside designing the website we also photographed the Rita D and Kellie Leman jewlery lines. Some of these photographs were on display at the Holt Renfrew Christmas sales.
Flash ActionScript programming involved creating password protected pages for retailers, fill-in forms for newsletter subscription and live pages using external XML (Extensible Markup Language) documents that describres the website's structure. The latter makes updates and maintenance work on Flash pages a breeze.
Ministructures
This website is an online exhibition of a miniature souvenir building collection. We developed a user-friendly database driven online publishing tool that allows our client to extend and update the content of his website.
The site features a feedback form where other enthusiasts can share their knowledge on items that have not been identified yet. Images can also be sent as ecards along with a custom message.
All photographs were taken by J.R. Graphix. Site was built on PHP and MySQL and is XHTML compliant.