Air Compressor Bot
|
|
Home |
How it works |
Projects archive |
Contact Us Air Compressor Bot |
|
| The Career Path of Freelance Programming Jobs |
Custom Computer Interface |
 |
Bidding Time: |
01/09/2005 17:50 - 11/09/2005 00:00 |
Budget: |
$300-1000 |
Status: |
Closed |
|
|
|
Job Type: |
|
Description: |
will have the same basic point as www.PugetSystems.com / www.AlienWare.com / www.PCsForEveryone.com and a variety of other like-wise custom computer companies with online interfaces (Dell even has one) I have uploaded a demo (something I quickly put together) of the front-end "customization interface" available here: www.PoweredPC.com/testing [This is the actual interface the user will see - there are 2 control panels (admin cp and user cp) in addition to this page]. Basically there will be 25 or so catagories (tables - processors, hard drives, graphics cards, monitors etc) with all the diferent things that go into (or peripherals) the computer. The user can select parts (most will be radio butons although some, such as software, will be check boxes) for each of these catagories. Each time a radio button is selected the details about that product should update next to it (Name/Brand/Other/Price/Image will be constant throughout every catagory, while FSB/Socket/Frequency as specific to processors, Cache/Interface/Capacity specific to hard drives, and so on. Basically each catagory will have 2-4 specific detail fields and they all share the same 5 global fields (with different values of course). At the bottom of this 'customiation' page there will be 3 options: "Save configuration", "Submit Configuration", "Buy configuration now". There will also be a text area where they can input comments about their computer (basically the same way Puget has it set it), they can write "I want the fastest computer you can make", or "I want an excellent gaming computer that is also relatively quiet", etc. "Save Configuration" will basically save the configuration in the user cp. The user CP will be a very simple page, the user can save configurations, edit saved configurations, buy saved configurations, and view status of any current orders [if the user just bought a computer it will show details of their purchase (basically an invoice), and the current status (will explain this later)]. The user will have to login to access the user cp (and to save any configurations). To login the user must be registered, so there has to be a registration form as well. "Submit Configuration" means the user will submit it (they do not pay) to us for review. We can then reply with suggestions about their configuration, they can still edit it (acts as a saved configuration in that sense), and they can choose to buy it at any time. "Buy Configuration" is exactly what it says, 'buy it now'. This will bypass the "submit configuration" where we respond with suggestions. This will immediatley buy the computer (will take them directly to an order form where the user inputs personal and payment information - when the user chooses to 'buy' one of their saved or submitted configurations it also brigns them to this same order form). So the user cp will be pretty simple, nothing too fancy. The admin CP is what will drive this entire customization interface. I have an example here: www.PoweredPC.com/admin Those are all the features that should be listed. in the Admin CP we should be able to add/edit products. All the catagories/fields we have are listed in the "add multiple products" link. We should be able to add these items, and then edit them later (price changes etc), and also delete a product if we stop offering it. That is all pretty trivial, the 'Custom PC' area would be a bit more complicated. Basically we want to offer a few different 'default' PCs (If you look on Alienware's site they offer abuot 10 different default settings, same as Puget, but 90% of the products you can customize are the same). We want to have 4 basic catagories for our 'Custom PCs' (Gamer/Office/Media/Silent), each catagory might have more than 1 default PC as well, maybe a "Budget Gaming PC" and an "Extreme Gaming PC". The whole point of this is for default parts (you can see this on customization interfaces for other sites as well, when you select a PC all the default parts are already selected, but you can change them all). Over 90% of the parts will be the same, but we do not want to offer a very loud power supply in our 'silent pc' (this psu may be available in every one of our setups except this one silent setup), just as we would not want the default processor for our 'budget gaming pc' to be the most expensive one we have (although we may want to still ofer that processor). We just want to set up a base that the user can customize, each 'custom PC' will have its own defaults, and each will have its own list of parts (although 90%+ will be the same throughout all the computers). All of this will be set by admins in the admin CP. The hardest part (I believe) of this interface will be compatibility. I am not sure if you know uch about hardware, but not all processors are compatible with all motherboards (Sockets differ), not all fans are compatible with all processors, not all graphics cards are compatible with all motherboards (PCI Express or AGP), and so on. Luckily the only issue is the MOTHERBOARD. Anything that has a compatibility issue will be with the motherboard. I can give more details on all this later, but basically it goes as I said above. The sockets of processors/fans and motherboards must match, input types of graphics cards must match (PCI Express / AGP), hard drives must match (SATA or IDE), many motherboards are compatible with both SATA and IDE, so that needs to be accounted for as well, RAM must match (buffered / unbuffered), etc etc. when I add products I want to be able to select which is which (ie: When I add a motherboard I want to select which types of things it is compatible with (Socket 775 processors, unbuffered RAM, SATA *AND* IDE Hard Drives (or just SATA, or just IDE), AGP graphics card) and things of that sor. so when I add a processor or another product I want to select which motherboard it is compatible with (socket 775), same with other products. The compatibility 'rules' should be dropdowns (basically the exact same as it is showed in the "add multiple items" demo I have linked you to, and the other detail fields (Name/Brand/FSB/Frequency/Price etc for whatever product it may be) should be text inputs. I want to set up this compatibility in the admin cp when I add parts so it will be displayed correctly in the customization interface (when the user hits a radio button for a motherboard compatible with only a socket 775 processor, only socket 775 processors are shown.. same with a socket 939 processor, and so on with all catagories). The compatibility in the interface should be fully automatic (after we manually add all the products, and set up the "custom PCs" etc. I understand you might not understand the "Custom PC" area of the admin cp (hard to explain) so I can explain it more later, but I have the basic point above. The last part of the admin CP is the 'orders' area. 1) We want to see everyone who is registered 2) We want to see all the saved orders on our site (who saved them, any comments they left, etc) 3) We want to see all 'submitted' orders and be able to make 'comments' on these orders (emails to the user) 4) See all 'buy now' orders and all the info. 5) We also want a status system where when we get an order it will say something like "Step 1"(this will be shown in the user CP as well, and updated in the admin CP). After we processor credit card we can update it to "Step 2" (This also gets updated i nthe user CP. There will be multiple 'steps' (they will actually be more like "We have recieved your order", "Your credit card has been processed", "Your computer has been shipped", and things of that sort), around 7. When we are on the last step ("Your order has been shipped"), we can then input tracking number (viewable by the client as well). This is basically all I can think of, but there are probably a few other details I might have forgotten to mention. I know this is very long but I included every possible detail for the best understanding of this project. Related Projects:  Metasearch site emulti.pl upgrade Modify Photostore Script Modify Template Selling Script Mod Need For Dating Script Quick ProjectThis project is the proprietary information of .
Click here to remove this project from OUR database.
|
Operating System: |
(None) |
Database System: |
MySQL |
| <<< back |
|
| Home | Projects archive | RSS | Resources | Links | Contact Us | © 2004-2008 ProjectsList.biz /1.203 |