Sports clothing distributors interactive web site .

Project Goals:
Development of a new searchable interactive website (as per interactive presentation). The purpose of such development is to exploit the Internet as a tool for marketing of all products of the sports clothing distributor and establishing the electronic order processing for dealers (and for public in the near future).

Future developments consideration:
(Stage 2 and 3). The database and the business logic code has been designed with considerations of a future development to become an online customer relationships management system.

The task of Transdata International Ltd was to incorporate the design and to create a database-driven content/application as per preliminary specification below:

• The database and functionality of the site should be built in a such way that it can be expanded in the future without major re-development according to the following plan:
• Stage 1. (current task) Searchable online database, with “public” (open), “dealer” and “media” (password protected) areas.
• Stage 2. (future development) Inclusion of all sales records and expenses to the database, ability to create various sales reports and outputs for analysis.
• Stage 3. (future development) Inclusion of stock records, integration with Sage. Integration of an online shop for general public.
• The site should have a password protected Content Management System, where any authorised member of the company will able to add/remove/edit Brands, Areas, Types of products, Products and their status and descriptions, Products images, Dealers and their parameters, General static pages of the website (e.g. Contact, About us, etc.etc.)

Overall list of implemented features:

• 4 user interfaces:
  • Public
  • Dealer
  • Media
  • Administration
• Ability to configure independent content for 3 areas: Public, Dealer & Media.
• No need to be a computer / web programmer in order to maintain the site and its contest. Thanks to …
• Built-in Content Management system.
• News articles publishing system.
• News articles (email) distribution system.
• Online order submission system for dealers.
• Two sets of prices maintained per product (wholesale and retail).
• Orders are also attached in csv format for easy import into 3rd party applications.
• Automatic notifications for registered users.
• Add/Remove/Edit pages on the site.
• Add/Remove/Edit:
  • Brands,
  • Categories,
  • Products
  • Dealers & Media users
• Edit / manage system variables.
• Automatically creates medium and small copies of product images.
• Additional “priority” parameter for products that have to be promoted in the listing.
• Built with search engine optimisation in mind.
• Built for a future expansion to allow wholesale prices to be adjusted per dealer.

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