Tomorrows Office

This ecommerce site provides a platform for the team at Tomorrow's Office to sell to both retail and trade customers. Our website design brief was to deliver an easy to use site that enabled Tomorrow's Office to showcase their huge catalogue of Office supplies & equipment. This site went live on September 11, 2009 and has been very well received by both existing customers and new visitors.

With over eleven thousand products, the challenges to be addressed on this web development project were as follow

Provide a number of navigation methods for customers whilst maintaining responsiveness
Facilitate customer specific pricing options
Enable the site administrator to create bundles
Enable the creation of psudo groups for collecting together a variety of themed products
Enable the creation of targetted groups of product that would appeal to certain market segments
Provide a useful workspace for Tomorrow's Office customers where they could interact with the product catalogue items which they order regularly

The site makes use of AJAX / DHTML in order to reduce the number of times that users must navigate to new pages. Supplier catalogues were bulk loaded to save time and the Agility Content Management framework was used to create useful shortcuts for all day to day adminstrative functions.

Customer do not need to register in order to browse the catalogue, however they do need to log on if they wish to avail of discounts that have been granted to their account.

Each page of the web site has been structured to provide search engines with highly optimised tags to assist in indexing, with all AJAX links degrading gracefully to enable spider access to the catalogue.