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Client

AromaSteam is the first and only portable full body steam bath in the world with the added magic of aromatherapy. It has won countless awards and is protected worldwide by robust trademarks and patents.

Challenge

AromaSteam required a completely new website to promote their products and create an online resource for distributors in the UK and worldwide.

Develop a comprehensive website which would include promotional media materials as video and pdf documents. A registration area, a login facility, exclusive area for distributors, including a photo gallery.

To create a dynamic website with a news system, options for subscribtion to the latest newsletters and a download area which gathers information regarding requests for downloading the company's brochures.

The ablity to edit and manage text and photographic content thourought the website.

Solution

RichardPI created a site that has a professional look, simple feel and clear navigation.

The website is developed using Joomla, an open source Content Management System - customised for specific the needs of our customers. The CMS has features which enable the client to easily create and modify all content within the website. The CMS also allows easy inclusion and editing of news stories, additions of photos to the gallery and many more useful options.

The video section uses flash technology which is present on more than 90% of all computers. This technology enables video that is well optimised, high quality, cross-platform and doesn't require any additional plug-ins such as Windows Media Player or Quick Time.

Technology

Customised CMS based on Joomla
LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)
XHTML, CSS, W3C compliant
Flash video: FLV
Level A of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 , including all Priority 1 checkpoints.