Nov 22

Bidlocal

Posted by Broady

Overview

Bidlocal is an exciting online auction site featuring great products and services from local, trusted businesses within the Goulburn and Murray Valleys, (Australia) who are customers of McPherson Media Group (MMG)

Bidding is competitive, exciting and fun and a fantastic way of purchasing featured items at amazing discounted prices. It is also a great way for participating business to increase their store traffic and sales turnover.

To say the least, Bidlocal is a very complex site. It is a custom written online auction website. Containing features such as membership module, newsletter module, bidding module, send to a friend module and much more.
The site is not run all the time. Being owned by the McPherson Media Group, the site is heavily advertised for a period of time to gain interest in the site
and it’s products and then every couple of months is open for a period of ten days. These ten days see a lot of activity on the site and hundreds of thousands of visitors so loading time and image optimisation was a must.

The site utilizes a vast range of website development technologies including SQL Server XHTML, CSS, DHTML, ASP, ASP.NET, XML and AJAX.

Components

Content Management (CMS) Content Management (CMS)
E-Commerce E-Commerce
Product Catalogue Product Catalogue
Electronic Newsletter Electronic Newsletter
Bidding Module Bidding Module
Payment Module Payment Module
Membership Module Membership Module
Statistics Statistics

Technologies

SQL Server SQL Server
ASP ASP
ASP.NET ASP.NET
AJAX AJAX
XML XML
CSS CSS
Javascript Javascript
DHTML DHTML

Nov 22

Turners Crossing Vineyard

Posted by Broady

Overview

The 103 acres of vines at Turner’s Crossing are planted on well-drained red sandy clay loam topsoil. The subsoil is red light-medium clay, containing limestone pebbles. There is minimal use of chemicals and pesticides are not used at all. Vines are spur pruned and bud numbers are calculated to allow low yields.

The Turner’s Crossing vineyard is planted with Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon and Viognier.

Turners Crossing is a detailed E-Commerce Website where customers can purchase wine online through a third party 128Bit Secure Server. Website was developed with simplicity in mind for the owners. An administration back-end was written for the site which enables full control and modification of the site without the need to know or learn complex scripting & development languages.

Being a product catalogue site wines, can simply be edited, added and deleted from the site through a custom made Administration area

Components

tick Content Management (CMS)
tick E-Commerce
tick Product Catalogue
tick Electronic Newsletter
tick Statistics

Technologies

tick ASP
tick ASP.NET
tick AJAX
tick XML
tick CSS
tick Javascript
tick DHTML