Babygear-USA
Babygear-usa, a Savannah GA based business, provides short term leases for high quality baby equipment for traveling parents and grandparents. They offer their services through locally franchised business in the South East.
Their continued growth required a new web site to explain the business, service new customers, support franchises and solicit for additional partners. The existing web site was a simple brochure with a quick order entry page for clients to request reservations for the equipment. The goals of the project where:
- New, fresh look and feel for a franchise business
- Show case of franchise partners and links to their sites
- Visual Search for partners
- Details for company, product and services
- Media library for print, web and TV articles
- Custom content management system and administrative tools
Solution
Built new site to target a shared hosting platform (the client was using GoDaddy). Using our PHP (5.2+) framework (using MySQL 4 for the dynamic content and client information) for the web site we built the solution for the requested functionality (forms, capatches, RSS, embedded video, CMS, etc.). The core of the project took 3 months to complete with a lot of the time spent generating content for the site.
Work was also performed moving the ordering system to a CommerceOS based eCommerce solution focused on a rental model. This part of the project was flagged as future and was not delivered as part of the phase 1 release.
Tags: PHP, MySQL, Web 2.0, CMS, Forms, eCommerce, RSS, video, media library