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Online Bookstore Get Me Books

Challenges:

The getmebooks.com is a Yahoo eCommerce website. Get Me Books specialize in Russian Books for sell. Their customers are mostly in Toronto, Canada. This site provides pertinent information on books written in the Russian Language. Extensive graphic were needed for this site in replicating book covers on the homepage. International characters are not supported through the Yahoo small business services in databases used for merchant solutions. These characters can only be displayed by substituting it through use of the escape characters. In our research, we found that Starintek Corporation developed a C++ database managing program that allowed customers to create and modify texts in the Russian Language and export them to the HTML escape code. This new state of the art program also allowed our team to create cross links for the products automatically with minimum configurations. This was completed with no extra user intervention afterward. The newly developed program employs a flat-file transported from the website as a database. The new program can work on the flat file without using the database engines. This removes the costly need to install and support other databases. Once editing is complete the flat file is sent in a Coma Separated Value (CVS) format. That format is read by the Yahoo database engine allowing the client to continue to utilize the Yahoo e-commerce website. For the client, it is now the best of both worlds. We also had to make some minor changes to the Yahoo RTML-engine scripts. The changes allowed the HTML pages to start from scratch. This helped to make timely database changes that could be imported into Yahoo. Because of these upgrades and additions, the Yahoo e-commerce store now served dual purposes. It could be used to describe the products using the Russian Language, with all of the proper characters being used, and the website is absolutely ordered, in terms of page hierarchy and links. That fixed the common problem of lost and or broken links. Those issues don’t exist anymore for this site. Usually only HTML code is readable from most slow speed computer, but this fix allows for quick reading even using java from evem the slowest computer. The website is rocket fast and bullet proof from hackers utilizing the protection from Yahoo’s security system.