Monday November 3, 2003
Patina Web Site Live!
by Jay F. Davis, www.acsoft.biz
I've been working on this for over a year, and the new Patina web site is finally online. It's getting some great compliments. Check out their hand painted furniture introduction page.
Being the back-end guru, much of my work can't be seen, including an online order status for Patina clients and a really nice Manufacturing Status web app. The latter allows the Patina headquarters in Atlanta to communicate with the Italian manufacturing team. Each piece of furniture is tracked so that the Atlanta folks know the expected delivery date. Building a piece of this exquisite furniture can sometimes take more than four months, so it's pretty important to keep the client informed of progress.
Though you can't see my work in those pages because they are reserved for Patina clients, you can see my handywork in the Patina online catalog. For example, check out this page of chests or this page of tables. We built a library of images based on pictures from the printed Patina catalog and then hooked them up to a database to sort them and show the images when the various furniture categories are selected.
My colleague and good friend Charlie Haynes did the photography and site design. As you can see, he does wonderful work and I hope to work with him on many future web projects.
The site was a long time coming because it was completed in conjunction with the new catalog, a massive undertaking two years in the making.
I'm also hosting the Patina web site, but I'll save that tidbit for another announcement.
RSS Demo: Weather for Atlanta, Georgia
- Temperature: 80°F
- Description: Partly Cloudy
Rss via Yahoo! Weather.
