Sales Website

06-JUL-2009 - 10-JUL-2009

Initial Project Description:

"Need very quickly to put together a static website with two pages. Pages will display pictures of products, price, dimension. And information (email) on how to order."

This project was a fast-deployment website targeted to sell excess stock of high-end Italian Furniture to interior designers.  The original specifications stated that it should only be two static pages.  After consultations with the client, I recommended against this plan as it would lead to very long loading times as we were effectively displaying the entire catalog for a manufacturer.  I then recommended that we move towards a CMS-based solution that allows much more flexibility in displaying information.

After I created some sample pages to demonstrate what I was recommending, the client whole-heartedly agreed.  From this point until project complete was 17 billable hours.  This included installation of the CMS, customization of a site template, manually importing pictures from the product catalog and finalization with the client.  The client was extremely pleased with the result, and the site pulled a good deal of highly-targeted traffic and generated several sales for the client.