25 September 2006
Today we've launched a great new service that most of you will never get a chance to see. Usborne Books at Home Organisers can now purchase professionally designed USBAH branded web sites that they can customise via an easy-to-use web based admin system.The site includes a built-in database driven catalogue of Usborne's titles, online shopping and customisation for the organiser's personal URL, contact details, messages, home page layout, Special Offers and Events.
Of course most of you are not Usborne Organisers, and will never see the very cool and powerful ways that these sites can be customised... but fortunately for us the Client can. Here is an extract from a note the Managing Director of USBAH sent to each of us on the project team, including ourselves, Mark Franklin and Bryony Bishop at Usborne Books at Home, and Chris and Rick, USBAH's technical partners at Fourfront.
"WELL DONE EVERYONE – WE ARE SUCCESSFULLY LIVE!
Thank you all for an amazing effort of co-ordination – I think as a team you could be an example to at least the U.N., if not the England Football team.
Seriously, thanks to you all for all your hard work and in particular, brain power."
Nick again. We've been working on this system since I gave a keynote at USBAH's eConference in February. It's great to see it launched, and to hear from reliable sources that a 'shedload' of sites have already been sold to Organisers. Well done everyone!
Posted by Nick Warren at 6:12 PM
