BIO
Jewels & Treasures
Jewels & Treasures is gift retailer, founded in 1975. In1999 Jewels & Treasures wanted to get presence on the internet.Jewels & Treasures chose Web Finesse Studios to achieve theironline presence.
Jewels & Treasures today has both intranet applications andinternet [login to view URL] ([login to view URL]) uses the powerful OSCommerce ([login to view URL]) shopping shopping system. Theshopping system has been heavily modified by Web Finesse Studios tomeet their business' needs. To speed up the website much of thesystem was rewritten to use layers to position items on the page,instead of tables. For better search engine results all pages nowcontain meta tags, which is not standard in OSCommerce.Tabs havebeen added to replace the confusing category tree that was in theoriginal version of OSCommerce which creates easier usability andmore specific search engine results.
Web Finesse Studios was also hired by Jewels & Treasures tomake an intranet customer database. Microsoft® SQLServer was used for the database and ASP.NET was used for insertingediting, and maintaining data.
Skills Applied
PHP
ASP.NET
Javascript
XHTML
Cascading Stylesheets (CSS)
Company Networking
Search Engine Optimization
Database Design (MySQL and Microsoft® SQLServer)
Database Query Programming (MySQL and Microsoft® SQLServer)
Dairy Queen® (Strongsville, Ohio)
Dairy Queen® of Strongsville, Ohio needed a newsystem for taking ice cream cake orders. Using binders for findingcake designs and taking the orders on paper was not onlyinefficient but, troublesome and costly. To solve this problemStrongsville Dairy Queen turned to Web Finesse Studios.
Web Finesse Studios put together an intranet application forboth the customer and the shop owner. A computer is set up on thefront counter where customers walk up and browse or search cakedesigns. Once the customer has found a design they specify themessage on the cake, the size of the cake, the flavor of ice cream,and any special requests the customer wants done to the cake. Oncethat is done the customer adds the cake to their basket. If theywant to order more than one cake they may, otherwsie the customerproceeds to the checkout. In checkout the customer fills out asimple contact form, and specifies the dates and times that the hewants to pick up the cake(s).
In the back area, the baker is notified about every cake that isdue in one week. The cake maker receives all the information fromthe computer and makes the cake without wasting paper, or cakeerrors because of illegible handwriting.
In the shop owner administation section, Web Finesse Studiosbuilt a state of the art Content Management System (CMS). The ownercan insert categories and cake designs, as well as controlling cakesizes and ice cream flavors. The owner can view customer data andexport customer data to be exported for use in a mailing list.
Skills Applied
ASP.NET
Javascript
XHTML
CascadingStylesheets(CSS)
Company Networking
Database Design (Microsoft® SQL Server)
Database Query Programming (Microsoft® SQLServer)
[login to view URL] (Internet Video Game Database)
[login to view URL] ([login to view URL]) is quite a unique website. The idea [login to view URL] is to be a complete internet database of videogames. Tohelp build this website [login to view URL] turned to Web Finesse Studios tobuild their gaming empire.
Web Finesse Studios built a browseable database system that wasintuitive and [login to view URL] not only includes a browseabledatabase, but a fully functional Content Management System (CMS.)The CMS included a complete news article system, and integrationwith phpBB forum software.
Skills Applied
PHP
Javascript
HTML
Cascading Stylesheets (CSS)
Database Design (MySQL)
Database Query Programming (MySQL)
Family Travel
Family Travel ([login to view URL]) is a smalltravel company located in New Zealand. Family travel had abeautifully done website, but what they were missing was an onlineorder form ([login to view URL]).
Web Finesse Studios built a simple online booking form, whichsuited the company's simple needs. The system included an orderform that was submitted online and stored in the database, next thecompany would contact the customer to finalize the sale. The systemis simple but effective.
Skills Applied
PHP
Javascript
HTML
Cascading Stylesheets (CSS)
Database Design (MySQL)
Database Query Programming (MySQL)
Area of ExpertiseLanguages: C# with .net Framework 1.1 and 2.0, Java, C++,HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, SQL, T-SQL, MIPS Assembly
Environment: Windows XP/Vista, Windows Server 2003, UNIX,Linux, Solaris 10, Mac OS X
Server Administration: Linux, UNIX, Windows 2003, MySQL,Microsoft SQL Server, Apache, QMail
Applications: Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Office,Microsoft Visio, Eclipse, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Indesign, AdobePhotoshop