Teatonic
1st August 2004 - 31st December 2006
Task Summary
- Site Producer
- Visual Design
- Information Design
- Copy Editing
- Writing of HTML and CSS code
- Basic Flash development
- Writing of custom PHP/MySQL mini-CMS
Project Details
Teatonic has been growing exponentially in the few short years since it was started in the garage of the founder, Lisa Hilbert. For the first years of the business, she'd had a single page, promotional site hosted on Melbourne's CitySearch.
I assisted Lisa in getting her site over to a more reliable supplier in 2002, and by 2004 the business had outgrown the single page site, and I began development of a new one. The primary objective of the site, was to provide customers with the ability to find retail outlets in their area where they could buy the products (Teatonic itself is a wholesale business, not retail), and in the instances where a customer was not near a retailer, they cold buy through the website.
I produced a number of flash animations for the project, from images supplied by an external agency, as well as all visual design and html/CSS development.
I wrote a customised PHP/MySQL script for enabling the staff at Teatonic to add, modify or remove stockists as they needed to, without them needing to rely on me to update the site manually. At the time, Paypal were not operating in Australia, and we didn't have sufficient budget at the time to justify the cost of implementing a secure payment gateway for taking online credit card payments.
The site is now undergoing redevelopment. This time, a Paypal gateway will be implemented to ensure customers can buy online, and the entire site will be migrated to Symphony, so that all aspects of the site can be managed internally by the staff at Teatonic.