BrandNewMail Administration Web Site

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Based on the same business logic as our own Client Account Site, this web site interacts seamlessly with the backend database for an n-tier distributed system.  The target web site user was a system administrator at a company who has deployed a BrandNewMail product, and they log in to their system account via the web site to perform tasks such as viewing and updating data held in the database, deploying products to new users, and managing their products and licenses in general.

Figure 1 - Security is paramount; the user logs in

The web site was designed from the start with easy to use navigation controls, common formatting guidelines, and a site-wide page layout.  The purpose of the site provided for a simplistic task oriented approach to navigation (i.e. "I want to...").  Two methods or achieving tasks and goals where exposed to the user - a traditional link-and-description based approach and the task oriented "quick jump" menu, both shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2 - Showing the task-oriented controls

The database provided a view to the site of all of the data available to the system, thus allowing the user to keep control of their company's data, whilst exposing powerful methods to sort and filter records on a number of key parameters.

Figure 3 - Comprehensive sorting and filtering of data

The web site also provided a means to update certain data held in the system, providing intuitive forms to the user and performing complex data validation and integrity checks - sometimes in real time.

Figure 4 - Interacting with the backend database

This project was able to utilise a lot of the knowledge and logic we used when developing our Client Account Site and thus was delivered in a fraction of the normal development time.

 

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