Safe'n'Sound
Safe'n'Sound was a web developer job I undertook while studying for my degree in Computer Science. The company sold car audio and security equipment and performed in-car installations on the premises.
I was asked to redesign the existing website which was built by another developer using the osCommerce framework (see first screenshot). I decided to perform a clean install of the latest version of the framework on the hosting server and integrate a template design which was agreed on by myself and the owner of the company.
The template we decided on needed to be heavily modified which involved editing the design and layout on most of the pages of the website using HTML and CSS. I learnt a lot about how the framework was implemented and was able to add my own custom components such as a quick search of products based on vehicle make and model by adding new columns to the existing database tables and writing PHP functions to return search results.
I was then asked to update the product catalogue with items available from different wholesale providers such as CEL Trade and Connects 2. This involved writing an osCommerce add-on which read the product data from the provided CSV files and inserted it into the database. I also worked on a separate add-on which could be used to select individual products or entire categories and export the data to a CSV file compatible with the eBay Turbo Lister application.
The source code for the Safe'n'Sound osCommerce PHP website can be found on GitHub here.
