As part of my work at Net Effects, since Christmas last year I've been working on a new online shopping system wherever other client work allows. For a good few years, Net Effects have run an online shopping site called UK Shopability but when I joined the company last year they had already started getting a bit fed up with the old system.
The old Shopability suppliers stopped doing online mail order recently, having been bought out, so the decision was made to start a new site to re-launch the whole thing, working with the main distributor of disability products. And thus was born Disability Warehouse, an online shop for disability-related products.
We opened the site up to orders a couple of days ago and already a few have been coming through despite not advertising the site yet, so it's looking good.
The site uses AJAX in places (mainly for adding an item to your cart and admin functions), though this is a site aimed at users with disabilities so it degrades properly if JavaScript is turned off and just submits a form the old-fashioned way. Some bits of the site are still being fine-tuned (e.g. product images that are missing), but the site is ready to go which is why it's now open to sales without much fanfare - we'll get a low volume of real sales to start to make sure everything really does work (it does so far!) before we ramp up to inviting all the many customers over from the old Shopability site.
Wossthistherethen Fortesque III
Login bit knackers up when I increase the text size. Don't lots of legally-blind people do that?
Send this in to the BBC, if you haven't already. They'll definitely write something about it.
July 28, 2006 1:09pm