Details

Client: 2 Chillies
URL: http://www.2chillies.com.au/

Launched: 8 February 2007
Agency: Cru Digital
Project: Fashion Label Website

Major Features:

• Has a full retail catalogue system, with search and multilevel cataloging
• An international retailer search and an Australia-only postcode search
• Polaroid image gallery
• Deeplinking to a primary level.

The Story

My first retail catalogue! Looking back at this, I’m still satisfied with how it turned out. A lot of thinking went into how I’m going to technically map out the catalogue. I implemented load orders, so the first items would show first, and then carry on loading the consecutive items. Eg: http://www.2chillies.com.au/#1=1=1=-1

At this point of time, I wasn’t confident in taking total control of the feel and flow of the site. Olivia helped me get the ball rolling on this.

This project did cut into my weekend a little bit, but it wasn’t all bad. It was actually my favourite part. Friends were staying down the coast, so on the Sunday when I got the final part complete, I popped down to the Gold Coast. Monday morning, I woke up, went for a dip in the beach, had some brekky with the boys, rocked up to the 2 chillies head office (also on the Gold Coast) still covered in sand on my beach attire, to run through the website, a bit of CMS training and the thumbs up. Then headed back to the studio. I’m sure those casual days are now gone, but at least I can still share the stories of what the early years of Cru were like.

Technology Analysis:

• Flash w/ Actionscript 2
• PHP w/ MySQL CMS
• XML
• Javascript

The Team:

• Specifications - Ben Stokes
• Designer - Olivia Bossy & Chris Cotton
• Photographer - Damien Bredberg & Dean West
• Backend Developer - Steven Miles
• Flash Developer - Neil Nand

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