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www.tw-wines.com
A retail wine e-commerce site with a shtml front end linked into Actinic Catalog; heavily touched. This site is quite large for a static html design but the content is unlikely to change so the most economical method for the client, and given the search engine spider techniques, hard coded text was used.
www.tw-wines.com/fifthmoon/
Also owned and drawing largely in the shop from the main list of T&W Wines and many of the content pages this site was created for a partnership with the fifthmoon portal.

Both these sites show the reworking that is possible with the Actinic series of e-commerce solutions. The main 'green' site uses very little of the original Actinic code for navigation, and also uses small form segments in static search engine optimised pages to allow a one-click purchase into the basket. The second was required to mimic the design values of the fifthmoon portal and therefore adds and replaces buttons standard in Actinic while leaving fairly 'out of the box' the shop control.

www.worldofwine.co.uk
Another static content site with an Actinic shop. Using bespoke graphics and CSS2 for both the site has recouped it's investment in just over 12 months.

This site is the first in a suite of 10 retail sites and a wholesale web site for this company. It was very quickly designed and published to test the market and will be republished for the Christmas market along with the other domain names. These new sites will all draw from a single, quite complex, database system using StoreFront 5.0 for the shopping segment and three databases for content, search engine and promotional work.

www.martinspeight.co.uk
Initially a personal web site for a county cricketer now revised in content linked and to ecBuilder 5.0 Store.

Also rather overdue for a revision which has been scheduled on several occasions but postponed due to lack of content availability. The shop content is not easily changed and a decision to upgrade the shop, even if the content remains the same, is due.

www.jeanstore.co.uk
The first e-commerce site. It is of minimal content site and linked to the JavaScript dirven Shop@ssistant backend. It is now looking quite dated and is transferring to the Actinic 5.0 system.

This project was interesting in that the coding is quite complex, not very easy to maintain and, unlike more modern systems, relies upon loading hidden windows and frames. This was mitigated to some extent by the use of a 'load shop now' option. In fact the shop has proven successful returning the initial investment in 18 months - right on my estimate. In fact I usually advise that it will take 18 - 24 months to return an e-commerce investment.