29 Nov 2009

Less Mosquito v2

THE BRIEF

It was time to update the less mosquito commerce system. The old system had become dated and preventing evolution through social interaction and more importantly I found myself unable to satisfy some of the demands of the client due to software restrictions, a position I do not like to find myself.

It was time for action.

THE SOLUTION

The site continues to be powered by the WordPress platform which is ever growing in its popularity, thankfully proving me right as an early adopted and continued advocate. However the WP E-Commerce plugin we had gone with originally due to it suiting budget and being part of only a small number of commerce options available for the platform was not performing. Inconsistent bugs, an inability to upgrade due to a template system fatefully intertwined with the commerce engine mean’t as a developer I had had enough.

As far as i was concerned I would be prepared to migrate the site to a new system for free if it was a system that I could then continue to use in other projects, and more importantly, give this client what they needed, and what they deserved.

I did a huge amount of research into the prospective commerce systems before a single character of code was entered and the results were to both mine and the clients immense pleasure.

Of course as the site was now more than a few years old, and due to its development in the WordPress platform, it would have been a wasted opportunity not to build a new design that complimented the increased functionality of the commerce system and also bought the site bang up to date with current web trends including extensive use of JQuery and the implementation of social networking functionality.

THE FUTURE

The result is now a site that is a pleasure to use and to maintain, allowing the site to flourish, sales to increase and the added human usability factor to support the extensive work we have done with the sites SEO.

Moving into the future we will be continuing to work hard on the SEO, integrate and push services such as Google Base and ensure that the human usability is carefully maintained to maximise sales conversions.

You can see the previous lessmosquito project information here.

Visit the site:

www.lessmosquito.com