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carhartt streetwear (rather big corporate site)
we’ve just launched a project, that i’ve been working on for the past few months. it’s the relaunch for carhartt streetwear, the streetwear brand of the american workwear manufacturer carhartt inc..
the site is rather big and there was quite a lot of custom development involved, so i’ve thought it might be interesting for you to also get a little bit of background information…
carhartt-streetwear.com (maybe you’re still getting the old flash site, that’s because we just changed DNS settings)
some info & background:
- news
- the core of the new site, blog-like.
- also note the event calendar, done with zem_event plus some customizing for the filter options.
- products
- gbp_permanent_links with regexp for the url scheme
- custom-built extension that builds the entire catalog from one excel-file (the one that is also used to generate the print version of the catalog)
- pdf generation
- about
- nothing special here, uses the excellent lightwindow.
- stores
- stores frontpage displays one random store out of the latest three stores (thanks to wet for wet_randomizr!)
- custom-built extension for the store management in the backend
- stores are separated from articles in the back-end but in fact are articles, so that we can use the same tags for displaying.
- custom-built search
- skate & bmx
- these parts are not yet integrated in the site so we’re just linking to the corresponding microsites. this is subject to change in the coming months.
- other
- fullpage-caching is active (asy_jpcache), search is done with a customized version of rss_live_search, zem_contact_reborn for the contact formular and tons of other plugins, in fact too many to list here.
the experience with textpattern was once again a good one. the custom plugin-development went really well and the client is comfortable with administrating the site.
Last edited by sthmtc (2007-07-31 11:38:00)
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I still see the Flash version at this moment in time, but given the brand this is one for the Featured site page on textpattern.com :)
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That looks great Sven, great to see Textpattern working on high-profile commercial sites.
I’m particularily impressed with the way you have zem_event working – any chance that you might tell us how you got the filter bar and entry tooltips to work so well?
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Probably a great site! It’s completely not my scene so I don’t know your audience at all. But there are lots of things to click and explore and get immersed in. At first I thought it was too many clicks to get to a product, too many click/hover states and that there were too many repetitions, but I suppose it’s a bit like a sweetshop with lots of goodies and you don’t mind hanging around for a while till you get served. Nice one! (And it didn’t break anywhere for me)
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Absolutely fabulous!
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Brilliant work Sven.
Very impressed it was seamlessly integrated in to Textpattern, and thanks for the breakdown of how the site is structured.
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Last edited by Sam (2007-08-02 10:52:47)
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thanks for the kind words, everyone.
decoderltd wrote:
I’m particularily impressed with the way you have zem_event working – any chance that you might tell us how you got the filter bar and entry tooltips to work so well?
well the tooltips were no problem at all, you just put all the information you want in a bit of extra markup and let JS handle the rest. as for the filter options that’s a bit of a different story and i’m not going to be able to explain it as my partner did the code. i’ll let him explain. we even thought to contribute that functionality to the plugin but that could take a while because he’s away for a few weeks now.
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Sven,
One of the best sites I’ve seen here in a long time!
Contacting you about some Zem_Event stuff now.
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Wow, this is a beautiful site. Nice work!
I’m curious how you dealt with the “navigation” of the products area. It seems like the hierarchy goes pretty deep. Since TXP doesn’t have support for subsections yet, did you just use categories? Or some other sort of navigational tool?
Thanks!
bludrop studios .::. Creative Expression
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blumie607 wrote:
I’m curious how you dealt with the “navigation” of the products area. It seems like the hierarchy goes pretty deep. Since TXP doesn’t have support for subsections yet, did you just use categories? Or some other sort of navigational tool?
there is one large link rule for gbp_permanent_link which generates the URLs (regexp) and the content is handled within a custom made extension, not using the ususal section/category/article medaphoar.
Last edited by sthmtc (2007-08-20 22:11:19)
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sthmtc wrote:
there is one large link rule for gbp_permanent_link which generates the URLs (regexp) and the content is handled within a custom made extension, not using the ususal section/category/article medaphoar.
Ah, I see. That makes sense…
bludrop studios .::. Creative Expression
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sthmtc wrote:
well the tooltips were no problem at all, you just put all the information you want in a bit of extra markup and let JS handle the rest.
Many thanks for the feedback Sven. I’m afraid I’m a bit of a beginner when it come to JavaScript, could you elaborate on the extra mark-up and JS you used?
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