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| Aloha
Vintage Hawaiian Shirts |
| Description: |
www.alohavintagehawaiianshirts.com
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Site
used to sell collectible aloha (Hawaiian) shirts of every vintage.
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Purpose: |
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The
client has an extensive selection of collector quality Hawaiian shirts
to sell. These are NOT just 'normal' vintage shirts, many of them are
featured in books about the subject!
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| Budget: |
PC
Mojo doesn't disclose budgets except in very general terms. This web
site was published for under $2,000.
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| Web
Site Size: |
Medium.
Due to the extremely limited availability of quality vintage Aloha shirts,
the client expects to maintain an inventory of between 120 and 200 shirts
maximum.
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| The
PC Mojo Solution: |
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All
original graphics were designed. Because this site has a distinctive
focus on Hawaiian shirts, we tried to use a tropical theme. Jungle
flora adorns the top and bottom corders, and woven bamboo strands
border both sides of each page. We think it looks cool, yet isn't
so distracting that it detracts from the quality of the shirts. |
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The
site is hosted on a on a Windows 2000 server. The backend database
is ODBC for the time being, and all programming for site administration,
catalog maintenance and shopping cart functions was custom written
using Cold Fusion. |
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A
custom shopping cart was developed for the site. The client is able
to add a new shirt to the database and upload up to four pictures
of each shirt by completing one simple form. Because these are rare
and unique shirts, each image is reduced to a manageable size for
display on the web pages AND the original image of any size is also
kept. The reason for this is that the detail of each shirt is important,
and anybody interested in purchasing one of these shirts won't mind
waiting for a huge image to load on their screen if they can then
see the details. So, even the 'teeny' images are 'clickable' to display
the full size image. |
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