Complete Code Solutions

Boutique Online Store

Above The Fray

Website, eCommerce

View Website: http://hilltribeart.com/

Background

Above The Fray founders Maren and Josh travel to the mountains of northern Laos and Vietnam, and team with local artisans to import unique and individual products. I worked with them years ago in getting an initial store online so they could reach more customers. Fast forward to 2018 - and it was time to redesign the site and update their look. Their web designer contacted me with new templates, and we discussed plans to rebuild the store on a more modern platform.

Technology

The store is built on a PHP+Laravel Backend, with MySQL as the database. Composer manages PHP dependencies. Voyager is leveraged to create an admin interface for the client, where they can manage their product catalog. Google Analytics is used to track visitors on the site. The site is hosted on our servers here at Complete Code Solutions.

Interesting Challenges

Importing existing products

Products existed in the database from the previous incarnation of the site, and needed to be retained. In order to migrate them smoothly to the new system, I created migration scripts that read the old data records, imported them into the new database, copied the product images, and applied a new categorization hierarchy.

What people are saying

Excellent communication, easy to work with.

I do not trust many developers to work in a freelance capacity, because they need to be disciplined. Matt definitely has the discipline and motivation to work in a freelance and remote capacity.

Easy to work with. Very responsive. Goes the extra mile.

Matt is a thoughtful and detail-oriented engineer with a natural curiosity and passion for web and application development.

For me to be able to pick it up and understand it says a lot.

Awesome.... What I liked about the coder is that he is confident enough to create his own direction which is sometimes useful, I recommend this coder.

I was tremendously pleased and relieved. [Matt Rabe] was prompt, courteous, knowledgeable and offered some other thoughts on making improvements.

Thanks for everything, Matt. It's guys like you that make working with contractors good.