
Century Beauty Webstore
The Century Beauty Webstore project was primarily a redesign which incorporated javascript and installation of a blog on the site. It started off as a heavily customized OsCommerce installation that wasn’t working quite right (and looked pretty gaudy). Customers could purchase items, but ancillary parts of the system were out of wack. Besides the redesign to remove the 5 tints/shades of mauve, we were tasked with bringing the inventory system up to spec and integrating the other parts mentioned above.
The site is currently running just fine over at Bluegrass.net. Century’s internal server updates/receives updates on product information and quantity, the warehouse receives an automated printout of all sales orders straight from the store software, and customers are purchasing at a greater rate than before. While the store is limited to Salon professionals, there is now an expanded area of the site where non-professionals can get beauty tips, product updates, etc. via the blog. I’ve even integrated Century Beauty’s MailChimp newsletters into the site so members can review past promotions and non-members can catch a glimpse of what they’re missing.