Cranking out Commerce Generation Blogs

January 27th, 2010

The past week I have been on several blog layouts for the Commerce Generation. We are currently working on launching the new website (which is much needed). Along with the new website is a company blog, as well as two blogs for the founder and VP. I started to browse other blog layouts and got some ideas of to run with and they also loved a very clean, simple, and big typography. Below are the various layouts that I came up with, these are just Photoshop layouts.

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They are currently up right now at their locations, but not 100% complete, they’re almost there! I am going to be using WordPress, makes this quite the easy task. I am going to have to say that I like the Commerce Generation blog layout the best (the last one of out of the three). That one was the first round and got it on the first try, but the others went through a couple of revisions.

Once their all up and live, I will post links to the new blogs as well as the new and improved Commerce Generation website. Take care until then next post!

And another went live – PetFoodDirect.com

January 27th, 2010

Since I started working at Commerce Generation last fall, we have been working on a very large project for Pet Food Direct.pfdWe launched the site about a month ago and its looking pretty good so far. I was in charge of slicing a PSD and converting to XHTML. Another site that they own is NationalPetPharmacy.com which is similar to their other site, but sells pet medication.

Its great to see a project that you and many others put time in to and see actual customers utilizing the new site. It was probably the largest site I have completed before working with lots of Javascript and CSS files.

The sites backend that was built at Commerce Generation is running Commerce Server with ASP.NET. Some features include:

  • Warehouse integration
  • Auto-ship prorgrams
  • Account management and much more!

Lots and lots of hours, but worth it once you see your work up and running.