Well, signwavesgroup.com, for a UK sign making company, lacks anything overtly EEish about it, but the client got the added bonus of being able to edit and choose the sort order of their product lines.

The sexy bit is the enquiry form, using the code that powers the clipping mechanism at iht.com.

Nice work, Adam.  I think examples like this where it isn’t immediately obvious what’s powering the site are some of the better examples of what EE is capable of accomplishing.  Not sure I understand what you mean about the “enquiry form”.  Assuming you’re talking about the one that appears below an entry on the individual page I don’t see anything sexy.  I didn’t actually submit one, either, though.

Thanks, Chris.

Sexy in that it uses a cookie to remember your list of products. Sort of like a shopping cart without $ that stays onscreen as the visitor browses the products. Sexy to me anyway because I haven’t done it before.

I’m going to propose adding a “discuss this product” section underneath the enquiry form, visible and addable-to only for logged-in registered customers. That’s an original idea, at least to me: having the extranet be the internet site with added features. Easy with the “if logged in” functionality.

Sexy in that it uses a cookie to remember your list of products.

Cool…that wasn’t obvious to me when I first looked. Of course, like Chris, I didn’t try the form. I think the form scares people off as they think it’s going to be submitted right away.
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So, how are you doing that?
I can see a lot of uses for something like this.

I think the form scares people off as they think it’s going to be submitted right away.

Hmm, yes. Hadn’t thought of that. Design should be tweaked slightly to illustrate that.

how are you doing that? I can see a lot of uses for something like this.

Yes, as we await the shopping cart module! See clippings.

Thanks Adam!

Adam…I presume these all get entered into a form for submission…haven’t dug deep into it yet.
Hows it been working for the client?

Forgot about this thread—and the design tweak that should have been made but wasn’t.

For this site I’m three steps away from the client and haven’t received any feedback.

I would tell you how the form works except my login seems to have been removed. I’ll let you know once they give me my superadmin account back. I think though that it’s just the regular EE send-an-email form combined in some way with the IHT clippings business.

Adam Khan - 05 December 2005 10:48 AM

Forgot about this thread—and the design tweak that should have been made but wasn’t.
For this site I’m three steps away from the client and haven’t received any feedback.

That’s too bad :-(

I would tell you how the form works except my login seems to have been removed. I’ll let you know once they give me my superadmin account back. I think though that it’s just the regular EE send-an-email form combined in some way with the IHT clippings business.

If you get in, let me know…thought it was a nifty feature when you first posted and still do.

PXLated,

Still trying to get a password but not sure if it’ll happen. There’s quite a lot you can see in the page’s source code, I’m a bit ashamed to say. Every item in the inventory gets thrown into a javascript array, as you can see at the bottom of the page. I never did understand how the IHT clipping thing actually works.

You can see the javascript at http://www.signwavesgroup.com/en.php?css=signwaves/clippings_js as taken from www.smokinggun.com

And the #clippingsmenu css style is also on each page for some reason.

Note that there’s a hidden field in the form (id=“clippingsSender”) which is somehow how the data gets sent.

I don’t think there’s actually too much in the template beyond what you see in the source. Anything that says “clippings” on it relates in some way.

This should set you on the path even if it’s not a complete explanation.

Update: Fellow at the agency who worked with the client said he’d give a go trying to get an account on the site again.

Is this worth writing an explanation for once I reconstruct what I did? Or will it be superceded by new stuff in 1.4 or the mysterious public something Paul has hinted at?

Is this worth writing an explanation for once I reconstruct what I did? Or will it be superceded by new stuff in 1.4 or the mysterious public something Paul has hinted at?

I think I would wait and see what is in 1.4 but I do think it’s a nifty feature. Almost all companies have literature to send out and I thought it was a unique way of handling it rather than a list with checkboxes, etc. A nice addition to EE as a CMS.

Adam…Did you ever get into this again?