Adonis Press

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.

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!

Earthy Originals

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

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.

Fox Hill Farm Grass Fed Beef

The Fox Hill Farm Grass Fed Beef site was designed and developed using Zen Cart. I had the great fortune working with amazing photographs, all taken by Larry Lampman, the site owner, at his farm. The photo galleries, in fact, were set up using a clever adaptation of Zen Cart’s additional images that I discovered by reading and following an example in the Zen Cart Forum. Fox Hill Farm accepts checks and money orders for online orders at this time.

Block Island Honey

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

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!

Bejeweled Bandanas

This site was a project I did for a Graphic/Digital Design class I took at Parsons in New York. I thoroughly enjoyed the class. The teacher stressed that web sites were an experience and should be designed as such. WE first had to make an experience board for the site, the colors and design elements we used evolved into the actual site.