Client:
Running Press Book Publishers
Job Type:
Database-Driven Catalog Web Site with CMS
About This Project:
This Web site for Running Press Book Publishers offers a complete listing of the company’s cooking, food, and entertaining titles, along with excerpts, recipes, and interior illustrations from the books.
All content is database-driven and dynamically served. Book listings and information, excerpts and recipes, author features, photos, and biographies are completely searchable through a dynamic, intuitive keyword search. Users can also browse by subject, author, or title, plus sort listings by publication date, alphabetically by title, alphabetically by author, and more.
Other site features include:
- A comprehensive Content Management System—a set of Web-based pages and forms Running Press staff can use to add new content to the site, edit existing content, upload images, change homepage features, and more—all without knowing any HTML or other code.
- “Email This Page” function that allows users to send one another recipes, book listings, author profiles, and other pages with a direct link embedded in the email.
- Keep-it-simple search box: You don’t need to specify “search by title” or “ISBN” or “author” or anything else—just type in your search words and the site will figure out what to check them against.
- Automatic page reformatting for printing purposes: Any time a user prints a page from the site, all irrelvant Web links and other distracting information are dynamically stripped out. At the same time, extra “watermark” content—such as copyright notices and the Web address for the site—is dynamically dropped in and printed. The result is that any one holding the hard copy will have complete references for where the content originated and how to find it and explore it further on the Web.
