Plumb Supply
Plumbsupply.com
Progress Report
Bryon Nicholson
Michael Mangold
What was Plumb Supply?
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Previous Site Content
– Links to Product manufacturers websites
• Difficult to navigate for the contractors
– Online order entry system
• Rarely used because of the difficulty of navigating to it.
– In the best month, only recorded 2% of the company’s total sales
– Information on company trips
• Displayed on the index page for every customer to see
– Bulky images
• You all saw them
Plumb Supply’s Audience
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Internal Users
– Salesmen and Warehouse Workers.
• E-mail usage, contact information for other branches.
– Management
• Easily accessible customer information
• New product development information
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External Users
– Homeowners
• Showroom hours of operation
• Product pictures
– Contractors
• Product specifications
• Online order entry system
• Trips to the Bahamas
Site Design Credits
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Where the information was gathered
– Meetings with the Plumb Supply IT department, and management
– Taking customer comments on the website, and what they wanted
• Site Design ideas
– Retail and similar websites in different fields
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Amazon.com
Ferguson.com
Barnesandnoble.com
Plumb Supply Management
So what’s left?
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Finishing Sub linking navigation structures
– Finishing links to separate branches
– Adding the links for the company trips and photo albums
– Shrinking the pictures they currently have to manageable sizes
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General Page information
– Copying and editing existing pages base text to fit into the new site
Testing the webpage design
– Different browsers
• FireFox
• Netscape
– Different computers
• Plumb Supply Office
• Home and Campus computers
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Possible redesign of Plumb Bob
– Giving him that more “modern” look