[ic] New IC Site Launch

[Ron Phipps]

> From: Thomas LaCicero
> 
> On Wed, 2003-05-21 at 13:38, Ron Phipps wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > We launched another Interchange site recently.  Take a look at:
> > www.ncsxshop.com.  This site sports a full professional design,
custom
> > menus, data driven news, data driven faq, email this item to a
friend,
> > product reviews, and linkpoint integration.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Ron
> >
> 
> That is a very nice site. This is going to be my first experience with
> interchange. I spent most of the day on the demo site playing around
and
> it seems fairly easy to configure, but this is some site. I would be
> curious to know how you went about deploying this site. I mean did you
> do the site design and layout first and then put it into interchange
or
> did you develop the entire site using the interchange interface.

Hello Thomas,

Our sites are built by two people, a designer and a programmer.  The
designer starts by mocking the pages up in photoshop and then once they
have been approved they are cut into html.  At that point the programmer
takes the design and integrates the Interchange code.  We used
dreamweaver, photoshop, dhtml menuing, and ultraedit to build the sites.
We do not use the Interchange interface to build the different pages.

> If you do not mind me asking how long did it take to do this site? And
> how long did it take your developers ( you ) to learn interchange
enough
> to do something like this?

It usually takes 2-3 months for us to complete a site like this, with
one person working half time and another person working full time.  I've
been working with Interchange for about 3 years now, during the last
year it's really the only system I have worked with.  

-Ron