About the Project
Recently, in partnership with Spitfire Media Group, we successfully launched ourcardmember.com which showcases businesses in small towns around Georgia. We were contracted to create all pre-planning documents, manage the IA (interface architecture), and to perform all PHP / Flash development of the site. OURcard required a fairly quick turn on the project so the design and coding were completed in tandem. Spitfire Media Group began working on the design while we worked on the database architecture and PHP-driven logic. Once designs and logic were completed we applied the awesome design work from Spitfire Media Group to our logic, completed testing, and launched the site.
One of the unique features that make up OURcard are changing the multiple templates based on the time of day. If you visit the site at 9pm EST you will get a different look and feel than you will at 10am. We also worked very hard on is a fluid integration with Mail Chimp’s API that allows administrators to quickly compose an email newsletter to all (or a subset) of its members with little or no HTML knowledge. Business’s can control their latest offers, half off an entree for example, and those offers are dynamically added to the next OURcard newsletter.
URL: http://www.ourcardmember.com
Information Architecture: LogicBomb Media / Spitfire Media Group
Design: Spitfire Media Group
Developer: LogicBomb Media
Fun Fact: The site layout changes based on time of day
What we learned
By utilizing the Mailchimp API we had the opportunity to heavily utilize another web service seamlessly behind the scenes. Mailchimp is a newsletter engine that allows you to send hundreds of thousands of emails to newsletter subscribers. We are now much more familiar with Mailchimp’s API and how to get an awesome newsletter signup on our customer’s sites. Not only can we execute and track newsletters from a website, we can populate them, stylize them down to the smallest details to make them stand out against the competition.
URL: http://www.ourcardmember.com
Information Architecture: LogicBomb Media / Spitfire Media Group
Design: Spitfire Media Group
Developer: LogicBomb Media
Fun Fact: The site layout changes based on time of day
About the Project
Recently, in partnership with Spitfire Media Group, we successfully launched ourcardmember.com which showcases businesses in small towns around Georgia. We were contracted to create all pre-planning documents, manage the IA (interface architecture), and to perform all PHP / Flash development of the site. OURcard required a fairly quick turn on the project so the design and coding were completed in tandem. Spitfire Media Group began working on the design while we worked on the database architecture and PHP-driven logic. Once designs and logic were completed we applied the awesome design work from Spitfire Media Group to our logic, completed testing, and launched the site.
One of the unique features that make up OURcard are changing the multiple templates based on the time of day. If you visit the site at 9pm EST you will get a different look and feel than you will at 10am. We also worked very hard on is a fluid integration with Mail Chimp’s API that allows administrators to quickly compose an email newsletter to all (or a subset) of its members with little or no HTML knowledge. Business’s can control their latest offers, half off an entree for example, and those offers are dynamically added to the next OURcard newsletter.
What we learned
By utilizing the Mailchimp API we had the opportunity to heavily utilize another web service seamlessly behind the scenes. Mailchimp is a newsletter engine that allows you to send hundreds of thousands of emails to newsletter subscribers. We are now much more familiar with Mailchimp’s API and how to get an awesome newsletter signup on our customer’s sites. Not only can we execute and track newsletters from a website, we can populate them, stylize them down to the smallest details to make them stand out against the competition.
