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)
E-Commerce
Product Catalogue
Electronic Newsletter
Bidding Module
Payment Module
Membership Module
Statistics
Technologies
SQL Server
ASP
ASP.NET
AJAX
XML
CSS
Javascript
DHTML
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
Content Management (CMS)
E-Commerce
Product Catalogue
Electronic Newsletter
Statistics
Technologies
ASP
ASP.NET
AJAX
XML
CSS
Javascript
DHTML
