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Kully Supply

J Smith — Wed, 27 May 2009 11:31:38 +0000

My employer Kully Supply, Inc has several online stores devoted primarily commercial plumbing parts. As we kept adding more, we were left with a large number of online stores to manage using various e-commerce solutions. After trying to maintain 11 different stores and having to make the same template changes on all of the stores, as well as developing new sites we came to the conclusion that the best thing to do would be to migrate all of our e-commerce sites into one Magento install and use it to run all of our sites.

We wanted to create a single theme that we could use accross all of our websites, while also being able to control the skin of each site and also the option to override templates for a given site. My co-worker, Greg Halbert, did the design work for the site and the illustration of our new company mascot, Kaptain Kully and did a lot of the site specific CSS. I had the task of importing all of our data from the old stores into the new site, as well as creating the skeleton template and skin as well as several custom modules, including a skin module that allows us to use a default css file for all of the sites that controlls the structure, while being able to specify a css override file for each site easily. I will be posting info on that module later.

We currently have 3 sites transferred over, Flushmate Repair Parts, Zurn Products and SharkBite Plumbing, with several more to be relaunched in the next few weeks.

GregHalbert.com

J Smith — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 03:56:40 +0000

Talented Caricature Artist Greg Halbert recently had me assist him in setting up wordpress to allow him to more easily update his portfolio. Make sure to check out his Obama Caricature. I set up wordpress, created a theme based on some PSD’s that Greg gave me, and set up 301 redirects for all of his old pages to point to the new locations to make sure that he kept the benefit all of his previous inbound links.

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Modern Cafe

J Smith — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:29:26 +0000

This was a slicing and xhtml / css coding project I did recently for Justin over at Big Business Worldwide who did the wonderful design work. Make sure to check out the video clip of the episode of Diners, Drive-ins and Dives that the restaurant was featured on.

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Big Business Worldwide

J Smith — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 12:49:55 +0000

Justin over at Big Business Worldwide recently had me create a new blogfolio site for him. I created a Wordpress theme based on his design ideas.

Twin Cities Real Estate – SouthMetroHouses.com

J Smith — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:08:16 +0000

This site was created for the Scislow Group, of RE/MAX Results in Apple Valley, MN to replace their old outdated template site.

It is mainly built using Textpattern with quite a few custom and 3rd party plugins.

The site also features a Featured Listing system for displaying the companies listings. The system was created with CakePHP and features Google Maps, Lightbox photo galleries, and xml data feeds out to many real estate search portals such as Trulia, Zillow, etc.

All of the forms on the site are integrated with Top Producer, a real estate client management program.

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