TheZite.com is an online marketplace for buyers and sellers of made to order goods and services. It is designed to automate many of the manual tasks involved in the process of procurement of made to order goods and services.
At TheZite.com purchasing agents, engineers and other parties involved in buying made to order goods and services can place RFQ by filling out a simple form and attaching drawings or other specification documents. Once the RFQ is submitted, TheZite's unique system will match this RFQ with all qualified Vendors and notify them of potential customer. The Vendors are able to view RFQ and place quotes. Then, the Buyer is presented with a report containing all collected quotes and Vendors' contact information.
The Brief:- Easy to navigate, streamlined, cross browser GUI for buyers and sellers.
- Registration, search and user profile forms integrated with JSP applications that communicate with SQL database.
- Flexible template design ready for future updates.
- Meta information optimization and search engine submission.
- Animated banners for advertising campaign on http://www.manufacturing.net/
After reviewing all customer needs, getting information about functionality of the web pages from back end developers and creating VISIO chart of pages I presented 3 different visual models of the site created in Photoshop and built it as image-html files connected to show workflow. After client approved one of designs I build the main template and integrated into it functional parts and reusable navigation elements. After implementing all pages using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and JSP I did pre release QA testing on all the pages on different platforms and browsers.
After first release was done, I worked with company engineers on choosing right keywords and description for web pages. All this information was used to create Meta tags for WebPages and submission to Search Engines. After short period of time traffic to website gained by 65%.
After site was fully functional I've being asked to create different types of animated banners that will incorporate company branding and will get attention of buyers and sellers of made to order goods and services. Those banners were used in advertising campaign on http://www.manufacturing.net/.
Technical Information:The site hosted on Apache, Web server software that runs under Windows NT. SQL Database hosted on separate data server both servers under supervision of network administrator and backed up daily to prevent data lose. Front end built in HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Graphics and animations created in Photoshop and ImageReady. JSP used for dynamic content and database communication. Site tested on NT, WIN-95-98 and MAC browsers' version 4.0 and up.
