One current project close to being wrapped up here at FCG: the web site and online store for Orlando-based Holistic Skincare by Elisabeth Cortes. Because this startup's budget was tight, we knew we needed to create a site that was not only beautiful and functional, but one that Holistic would be able to maintain on their own after the initial site was launched. The women of Holistic are brainy and beautiful, but web programmers they're not; any user interfaces had to be easy to use for the layperson.
In the end we combined an osCommerce shopping cart with additional informational pages that draw their content from the backend database of a Wordpress blog. Each content area on the site is essentially a blog post, and changing text and images is as easy as logging in to the admin area of the blog and updating the existing blog posts. Genius! Both Holistic and FCG are thrilled with the low-cost, high-function solution.
In the end we combined an osCommerce shopping cart with additional informational pages that draw their content from the backend database of a Wordpress blog. Each content area on the site is essentially a blog post, and changing text and images is as easy as logging in to the admin area of the blog and updating the existing blog posts. Genius! Both Holistic and FCG are thrilled with the low-cost, high-function solution.
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