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| Description: |
www.boulderhousepublishers.com
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Publisher
of books with an experiential focus on Nature and the environment in
the American West.
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Purpose: |
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Web
site designed to spotlight current book offerings and allow the capability
of ordering books online.
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| Budget: |
PC
Mojo doesn't disclose budgets except in very general terms. This web
site was published for under $1,500.
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| Web
Site Size: |
Small.
The original site size was nine pages including the secure ordering
system and three site administration pages for the ordering system.
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| The
PC Mojo Solution: |
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All
original graphics were designed with particular attention paid to
a 'clean' simple look. Because of the nature of the photography within
the featured book, extra care was taken in scanning the images and
preparing them for web display. |
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The
site is hosted on a Unix/Linux platform with the final part of the
secure ordering process handled on a Windows 2000 server. This was
done to minimize the monthly web hosting fees while still providing
the extra horsepower of a powerful Windows 2000 server where necessary. |
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All
of the features of a 'shopping cart' weren't needed for this application,
so a secure order form was designed to store ordering information
in a database on the secure server using Cold Fusion. |
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When
an order is placed on the site, a copy of the final invoice is emailed
to both the customer ordering the book and to Boulder House Publishers,
notifying them that an order was placed and needs to be processed. |
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A
password protected secure order administration system, very simple,
was developed using Cold Fusion and an ODBC database. |
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