Heimerdinger Cutlery.com Screen Shot
In Mid 2008, Heimerdinger Cutlery got together with Louisville Web Group to not only bring about a change to their existing webstore, but to overhaul their entire business. Breaking everything out into several stages, the culmination of the project(s) has come to bear fruit for the world to see. HeimerdingerCutlery.com is now live, and racking up more and more sales every day! (more…)
Briar Rose Estate
Briar Rose Estate (site offline as of 6/26/09 unfortunately. Thanks, economy) is a mansion outside Shelbyville, KY built in the late 1870s. Briar Rose was recently purchased by an investor from California who was in search of the perfect place to get away and have parties at Derby time. Briar Rose happened to be for sale, and he scooped it up and began remodelling it. He brought on a new property manager to get things done and promote the property for weddings, corporate events, weekend retreats and what have you when he wasn’t staying there, and the need for a website was mentioned. They needed something that conveyed the natural beauty of the property as well as the stately nature, and would compel wedding planners and event planners to keep tabs on the house.
I spent a day on the property taking photos and then built the site. I also integrated some PHP calendar software to help the property manager keep track of the availablility. A PHP contact form is also part of the site to facilitate the booking process.
Century Beauty Webstore
The Century Beauty Webstore project was primarily a redesign which incorporated javascript and installation of a blog on the site. It started off as a heavily customized OsCommerce installation that wasn’t working quite right (and looked pretty gaudy). Customers could purchase items, but ancillary parts of the system were out of wack. Besides the redesign to remove the 5 tints/shades of mauve, we were tasked with bringing the inventory system up to spec and integrating the other parts mentioned above.
The site is currently running just fine over at Bluegrass.net. Century’s internal server updates/receives updates on product information and quantity, the warehouse receives an automated printout of all sales orders straight from the store software, and customers are purchasing at a greater rate than before. While the store is limited to Salon professionals, there is now an expanded area of the site where non-professionals can get beauty tips, product updates, etc. via the blog. I’ve even integrated Century Beauty’s MailChimp newsletters into the site so members can review past promotions and non-members can catch a glimpse of what they’re missing.
OVCE Mockup
Ohio Valley Creative Energy is a Southern Indiana/Louisville based effort to build a sustainable arts facility using recycled materials and waste from the Floyd Co. (IN) landfill. They are currently in an early phase and busy raising capital.
This site was originally designed when I was in the Indiana University Southeast Design Center Internship and hand coded to XHTML 1.0/CSS 2.0 spec around April/May 2008. In December 2008, I brought the site over to the WordPress blogging system to give OVCE a much greater range of freedom with their site. It currently uses WordPress as well as E-blast plugins.
