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Pete M — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 03:10:25 +0000

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find4me

Pete M — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:36:06 +0000

Melbourne based Escape Today wanted to build a new web portal to sell last minute professional appointments. They came to us with a business model based on proven examples like wotif.com and lastminute.com.au. This new web portal, to be named find4me, had to address the needs of 2 key user groups. The businesses that would be selling appointments and the users who would be buying them.

Our first task was to help Escape Today to strategise the building of a user base and the development process of this significant undertaking. In order to start building Search Engine ranking from the earliest possible opportunity we quickly implemented a WordPress blog using a low cost, fast turn around web site design solution. This allowed us to plan the real web site development which was split into two additional phases while the web site was already building traffic.

The main web site would require membership with role based permissions to allow business owners to add their own business profiles and advertise their available appointments. To avoid abuse of the open membership registration and ensure quality of content a workflow approval publication process would also be needed.

To minimise costs and time to market PMIC proposed using a third party, off-the-shelf web application framework to provide standard functionality and a solid foundation for the .Net web development of custom business requirements. For this site we used the Kentico CMS built on ASP.net.

A usable and valuable user experience would be pivotal in building a user base that would make the web site attractive to business owners. We advised adding a postcode based search to the category based search included in the initial draft of the web site requirements.

The functionality for businesses to add appointments and for users to find and book those appointments by paying a booking fee is what makes find4me standout from other professional services web site portals.

This web site is currently hosted by PMIC on a Windows server

Foundation 49

Pete M — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:43:53 +0000

Foundation 49 is a not-for-profit men’s health organisation based at Cabirini Hospital in Malvern, Victoria. As well as needing a content management system for the web site content they wanted a web based health assessment based on their Decades of Life model for men’s health.

The health assessment functionality is built using an MVC architecture on the .Net web development platform. Protection of sensitive user data was a key requirement of this custom web application.

This web site is currently hosted by PMIC on a Windows server

Lily Gardner

Pete M — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:33:51 +0000

Lily Gardner needed a new e-Commerce web site to sell her designer jewellery to a global market. The list of requirements included a wishlist, gift certificates, discount coupons, wholesale customers and more. This needed to be a fully functional e-Commerce web site with all the bells and whistles.

We developed Lily’s site on the ASPDotNetStorefront e-Commerce application which is built on the ASP.net framework.

This web site is currently hosted by PMIC on a Windows server

Thomas Warburton

Pete M — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:08:34 +0000

Thomas Warburton were looking for a fresh look for their outdated web site design. They also needed improved product management, web site naviagtion and search. The new web site was required to act as a product database for their sales team.

While Warburtons did not have an immediate desire to sell products online an e-Commerce solution was the right fit for their requirements. Having an extensive product catalogue and the need to for a solid search engine to find products in that database lead to us proposing the aspdotnetstorefront e-commerce application.