Product News and History

Where did WEBmarketeur come from ?

Our years of software development and support have taught us that being proactive is better for our clients and us.

Rather having start every client's site from scratch and spending your budget having to test every line of code , we decided that it would be better to invest our resources into building a product which would support all our clients needs , allowing us to test it once , and share the cost amongst our clients.

This gives you a more professional stable product at a price lower than if it was individually constructed for each client.

Future Developments

We are currently investigating the following new modules

• Loan Calculator
  Using your interest rates and payment period , show the monthly payments required to purchase this item

• Exchange Rate Converter
  Allow your clients to view the product price in various international currencies using daily mid-rate exchange rates

• Graphical Statistics
  x Sample your product viewing habits graphically for an instant snapshot.

• Document update
  Upload ms-word/pdf documents for download by your clients.

We are always looking to add new ways to increase sales avenues to the product , and will welcome any suggestions that you believe would suit you or your market sector.

Product History

Since conception in early 2000 we have added to the core to provide more feedback to you , and various modules to increase ways of display your product information , and to get and keep potential clients until you make that sale.

• Q3 2003
  Module Release 3
  • Weekly new product mail subscriber
    Automatically e-mail new products on a weekly basis to users who subscribe. This allows you to keep in contact with a potential client even if you do not have the right item on their first visit.
  • E-mail templates. Removing email layouts from code into templates giving the opportunity for emails to be tailored for each client.

• Q2 2003
  Core Release 2
  • Block caching output implemented to improve performance
  • Standardise block processing

• September 2002
  Modules Release 2
  • RSS newsfeed of items
  • All item page generation to aid search engines

• June 2002
  Modules Release 1
  • Featured items.
  • Latest items.
  • E-mail item details to any email address

• April 2002
  Switch to Smarty templating engine for web screen presentation

• March 2002
  Switch to imagemagick for image generation

• January 2002
  Core completed. Investigate addition 'plug-in' modules to increase sales avenues and monitoring

• December 2001
  Create the concept of agent and application manager

• November 2001
  Build statistics monitoring into core in order for client to see viewing habits of users.

• October 2001
  Add record count functions to core

• September 2001
  Add data driven search functions to core

• August 2001
  Add image resizing functionality to improve web page delivery time

• July 2001
  Add image upload and display functionality

• June 2001
  Field types enhanced to support number and yes/no fields with automatic formatting on all field display and entry.

• June 2001
  Create dmchost to Internet host product for clients

• May 2001
  Initial text version developed supporting Price and text description fields , and maintenance screen to add new products.

• January 2001
  Core Technical specification produced. PHP and mysql chosen as the development tools.

• December 2000
  Core Requirement produced. WEBmarketeur will be data driven , and the core code should be able to support any product that can be has a price , images and a set of data fields.

• November 2000
  Decision to build WEBmarketeur