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	<title>Portfolio of Mark Carnaby &#187; tropical fish</title>
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		<title>Aquatics to your Door website</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[live stock]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aquatics to your Door required a brand new e-commerce site to expand their business selling online tropical, marine and pond fish. With over 700 products to sell, mostly live stock, Aquatics needed a online store that was simple &#038; fast to use for it's customers as well as it's staff.<!--more-->]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.markcarnaby.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/aquatics_full.jpg" rel="lightbox[1009]" class="lightbox" title="Aquatics to your Door website"><img src="http://www.markcarnaby.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/aquatics.jpg" alt="Website Design - Aquatics to your Door" /></a><br />
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<p>Aquatics to your Door required a brand new e-commerce site to expand their business selling online tropical, marine and pond fish. With over 700 products to sell, mostly live stock, Aquatics needed a online store that was simple &amp; fast to use for it&#8217;s customers as well as it&#8217;s staff. <span id="more-1009"></span>Getting the general look &amp; feel of the site just right was one of the many challenges I faced when building this site, and along with lots of custom coding &amp; tweaks to the shopping cart software, I think I can safely say this has been my most ambitious website build to date.</p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Just some of the add-on&#8217;s made to the site:</strong></span></p>
<p>1. Due to different the temperaments of tropical fish I built a custom key system into the product pages that was configurable by the staff when they uploaded products to the site admin.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.markcarnaby.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/aquatics_one_full.jpg" rel="lightbox[1009]" class="lightbox" title="Fish Temperament Key"><img src="http://www.markcarnaby.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/aquatics_one.jpg" alt="Fish Temperament Key" /></a></p>
<p>2. A feature of their previous website was to be able to pair up fish that house well with others, this was also built into the new site along with the addition of a recommended food category.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.markcarnaby.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/aquatics_two_full.jpg" rel="lightbox[1009]" class="lightbox" title="Tank Mates &amp; Recommended Food"><img src="http://www.markcarnaby.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/aquatics_two.jpg" alt="Tank Mates &amp; Recommended Food" /></a></p>
<p>3. With the delivery of live stock, time was an important factor and dates needed to be chosen by the customer and not by the supplier (which is common practice in most e-commerce websites). A complex calendar system was installed for this purpose.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.markcarnaby.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/aquatics_three_full.jpg" rel="lightbox[1009]" class="lightbox" title="Delivery Date Calendar System"><img src="http://www.markcarnaby.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/aquatics_three.jpg" alt="Delivery Date Calendar System" /></a></p>
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<p>Visit website: <a href="http://www.aquaticstoyourdoor.co.uk">www.aquaticstoyourdoor.co.uk</a></p>
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<h3>Software Used:</h3>
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<li class="cart">Shopping Cart</li>
<li class="photoshop">Photoshop</li>
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