Chuck Victory Goes Live!
We’ve just launched a new e-commerce website for Newport, Oregon photographic artist Chuck Victory. Chuck has a background in advertising and photography, and a serious interest in wine and art. While a simple website, there are a few features that we feel should be mentioned:
- Content Management – Chuck’s website has one of our custom content management systems that allow Chuck to control the aspects of his website that he needs to, without jeopardizing the integrity of his site. Chuck can easily create new galleries and manage his photos. In addition, the website offers Chuck the ability to add any number of available sizes that he wants to make available. In fact, I intend to do a blog post here soon about how that was accomplished, as other developers might find such a system handy since so many products can be available in multiple sizes, or colors…
- Paypal Integration – As a newcomer to e-commerce, we worked with Chuck to determine that Paypal integration was the most economical way for him to start selling his photos online. In our case, Chuck’s site uses Paypal for it’s checkout process, and is securely integrated. Rather than simple posting variables to Paypal, the website encrypts all shopping cart data prior to being sent to Paypal, which prevents anyone from tampering with the order data.
- Image Protection – While there is no way to fully protect images on the web, we wanted to at least make it harder for someone to try and get at the images. Of course, nothing can stop a screenshot, or even someone familiar with HTML from grabbing images, as that is the nature of the web. However, we composed a solution that removes the ability to ‘right-click’ on an image, or drag-and-drop it to your desktop to play with. Nothing groundbreaking here, but a feature worth noting.
We are excited that Chuck’s site is completed and launched, and as the bugs are worked out will be excited to see the response. For our part, working with Chuck has been an absolute pleasure, as he is not only a creative fellow but one that understands what he wants. Visit his website, and check out his photographic art…
Published by Brian Getting on Monday, April 13, 2009.
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