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Lauray of Salisbury

hschiller — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:14:54 +0000

w3sights has put up a new Lauray of Salisbury site! I’ve updated the colors and layout of the site and of course kept it in WordPress. What I’d really like to do is add photos of all of the beautiful plants Judy has in her greenhouse – Orchids to Cacti – in one New England Greenhouse! So, check out the Lauray of Salisbury now and then come back to it soon!

Robin Leech Real Estate

hschiller — Sun, 29 May 2011 11:43:06 +0000

I’m pleased to announce my newest website launch! The Robin Leech Real Estate web site was ready for a redesign and I have enjoyed the whole creative process from looking at other real estate agent web sites to developing the new site using WordPress…. and now to the debut. The site’s home page has a spot, front and center, for Featured Properties with more properties underneath. I made having properties on the home page, immediately viewable, one of my top priorities with the new site. Using WordPress means it is very easy to keep the information on the site up to date, another priority. (I love WordPress!)

The site also has a specialized Search which allows visitors to look at properties, by property type – residential, land, commercial, and rental, as well as by location and even to limit the search results by price or number of bedrooms. Each property has an unique web site id assigned to it and can be looked up in the Search by that id. On the individual property page, a gallery of photos is viewable along with the pertinent information and features of the property.

Check out this latest web site by w3sights! I’d love to hear what you think! Maybe you’ll be compelled to call Robin and see… and buy… one of the many magnificent houses on the market in the beautiful northwest corner of Connecticut.

Adonis Press

hschiller — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:12:03 +0000

Adonis Press, committed to publishing and distributing books on phenomenological science, is now a shopping cart site, using Zen Cart, the free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart software that w3sights works with. In addition to being able to order books on-line using the new secure shopping cart, customers are now able to search the entire catalog of over 75 books. I did the customizations, development and set up. John Barnes, the Store Manager, is already working in Admin and will now be able to add new books to the catalog himself. Please visit the new Adonis Press site

Peter Fasano Ltd.

hschiller — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:48:02 +0000

The new Peter Fasano site is online now! w3sights redesigned the site. My goal was to create an elegant web site with a simple layout for presenting Peter Fasano’s beautiful, and sometimes quirky, fabrics and wallcoverings. This became largely a matter of removing all unnecessary details, which is not as easy as it may seem.

Each time you visit the site, a different fabric or wallcovering comes up on the Home page. To accomplish this, I set the Home page up to use a random image generator which picks a fabric or wallcovering image out of a folder and displays it.

On the new site you are now able to view Peter Fasano’s entire collection of fabrics and wallcoverings, in all of their colorways. The site uses Zen Cart’s cataloging, additional image, and add-on lightbox features. And it is a good example of how Zen Cart can truly be customized to meet the personality and needs of the business owner. All customizations were made using Zen Cart’s template system that separates the look-and-feel from the code and logic behind the site.

I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that with Zen Cart the site owner can update all of the content easily themselves. Zen Cart has a powerful Administration tool which, once you are familiar with it , makes maintaining a site a matter of just logging in.

One of the comments I received was: “Thank you for your hard work. The aesthetics of the site are quite beautiful.” Please visit the new Peter Fasano site, I hope you enjoy looking at the fabrics and wallcoverings, I certainly did while working on the site!

Bedrock

hschiller — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:14:16 +0000

w3sights announces the launch of a web site for Bedrock Design and Fabrication, a stone fabricating shop dedicated to creating beautiful stonework for residential interiors. This site was developed using WordPress so that the owner can update the site himself. The site includes photo galleries of finished jobs, a bio, links to stone yards for clients and potential clients, plus email contact. Visit the Bedrock site!

Earthy Originals

hschiller — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:23:24 +0000

Earthy Originals is owned by artist Scott Zampier. Scott attends many Craft Shows in the Northeast and was asked if he had a web site so often that he contacted w3sights. Together we created a site as beautiful as his artwork. Earthy Originals is powered by Zen Cart and therefore has many shopping cart features. Scott is always making new designs and likes to keep the site up to date, so check back often. He is also happy to do special orders.

Johnnycake Books

hschiller — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:09:53 +0000

The Johnnycake Books web site was designed using Zen Cart and it is a good example of how Zen Cart can be customized to suit any small business owners’ needs. All books on the site were set up by the owner and his assistant in a easy to use admin area. Johnnycake Books is an Internet and storefront bookseller of rare and collectible books. They were one of the first several hundred booksellers to put their collections on the Internet in 1996 and the entire catalog can be searched from the site at ABE, the world’s largest web-based network of independent booksellers. Selected books are featured and available for purchase directly from the site. Visit Johnnycake Books online or if you are in the Northwest Corner of Connecticut, stop in to browse.

Block Island Honey

hschiller — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:07:16 +0000

w3sights is happy to announce that Block Island Honey is now using Zen Cart for all its shopping cart features. The goal in redeveloping the site was to gain the functionality that Zen Cart offers, but keep the same look and feel, originally designed by w3sights several years ago. This meant some customized programming in Zen Cart! Now Littlefield Bee Farm has the ability to update the site themselves and they can take advantage of some helpful shopping cart features such as tracking order status with emails to customers and reporting. The next step is to interface Zen Cart with Quickbooks so that data is exchanged between the two systems automatically.

Gilmor Glass

hschiller — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:32:40 +0000

The Gilmor Glass site is powered by Zen Cart, an open source e-commerce system. I designed the site so that it looks more like a gallery than a typical shopping cart. The beautiful glass work is displayed on a dark gray background. Information about glass blowing classes is also available. Join the email list to hear about sales and special events!

Block Island Yoga

hschiller — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:07:52 +0000

I wanted the web sight for Block Island Yoga to draw visitors in. I also wanted it to be a soothing experience. I had a lot to work with. Sue Littlefield, who has taught yoga year round on Block Island for 11 years and incorporates yoga and body-mind therapy into her private counseling practice, provided me with the meditative words which became the home page, highlighted ones are links to pages in the site. She also provided the beautiful images which are used throughout the site. I came up with a page layout for Sue to view and she wrote back to me: "I like it very much. I like the simplicity of it. I like the color, the balance, the white text……..Go for it!" And so Block Island Yoga was online shortly thereafter and just in time for the release of Sue’s Yoga CD, Tidal Flow.

Tidal Flow can be purchased online at Block Island Yoga. Sue recognized that it would be helpful for some people to have visuals of the yoga poses and so once you have the cd you can go back to Block Island Yoga and view photographs of the poses referred to on the CD. At Block Island Yoga you can also join the email list, read Sue’s Bio, and check the current schedule of yoga classes.