How did we successfully build a website for a globally renowned publication house?
How did we successfully build a website for a globally renowned publication house?
Overview
Our client, a tech start-up for the creative industry, is based in Australia and has global footprints across the US, Europe and Australia. It is a part of the Magazine Publishers Industry.
They required an e-commerce platform for the creatives to publish and sell their works to those who are in demand for content. They required a highly engaging website that perfectly showcases the wide range of works they create with easy navigation.
They also wanted quick loading web pages and a good site structure to improve indexability and SEO rankings.
Challenges
Keeping in mind that an e-commerce platform was required by the creative people for the creative people, it needed to include and showcase the wide range and variety of their creative talent.
The website was required to be receptive and has a decent navigation facility. Also, it should have the flexibility to run across a wide range of devices to provide a seamless user experience.
The website was also intended to provide a very detailed search functionality allowing users to exactly locate what they are looking for.
It is always interesting to have an option to compare contents for similar topics so that the creative buyers always have the opportunity to invest in the better one.
From a business viewpoint, a good e-commerce platform often requires an admin panel to allow the superuser(s) to handle all the e-commerce platform’s content, pages, and blogs.
Implementation of Plan
We started with the ‘Project Understanding’ phase, in which we discussed and jotted down all the requirements of the customer with respect to each requirement.
Once the wire-frames and visualizations development was done, it was shared with the client for their feedback.
In addition, we reviewed the requirements and identified the tools, technology, and procedures we would require for the project to be implemented.
We have chosen a PHP based framework for the server end, Android Platform Versions 6.0 to 10 for the Android front-end and iOS Platform Versions 9.0 to 13 for the iOS front-end.
Thanks to its enormous scalability, availability, and efficiency at a cheaper cost, that has made us choose MySQL for the server end database. The high degree of compatibility of Apache helped us pick it as a web-server.
The E-commerce site needed to support 3 types of users:
- The Website Admin / Owner
- Buyers
- Sellers
The other functionalities of the Home page includes:
- Registrations for the new users to become registered users
- Log-in option for the registered users to log into the page.
- Forgot Password
- Profile Management
- Terms & Conditions
- View & Read Documents
- Bids & Offers
- Payment
- Finalize deal
- Product Category
- Billing
- Search
- Confirm/Check out
- My Order History
- View & Read Treatment/Synopsis:
- Payment from Buyer:
- About US
- FAQ
- Contact
Seller’s End Functionality:
- Registrations for the new sellers to register themselves.
- Forgot password
- Subscriptions
- Manage Display View
- Selling Options
- Accept Offers
- Payment
- My Order History
- Order Status
- My Payment
- Messages