Nubianbooks.co.uk

Because he liked my approach and design so much on his son's project QTReporter so much (?), the owner of this ill-fated site requested a website for his pet project, an online bookstore for the topics of Nubian culture within the UK. The site was never populated with products and as of writing, is no longer a valid domain name.

The site was run off of a shopping cart package called ZenCart which was free and sure showed it. <table> tags roamed freely. Although I have much love for the idea of a free eCommerce package with such extensibility, ZenCart was, in essence, a horrendous mess. The difficulty in simply getting a USD to GBP locale conversion set up was compounded when the software wouldn't recognize a UK postal code with it's wacky numbers and letters and whitespace characters.

The ZenCart community was very small but helpful and in the end I was successful. Even had a root certificate running.... but never got a phone call from the client after that. Lost interest I guess.

I was a bit frustrated and took the site off of my hard drive, but managed to find a near completion .jpg from an AIM conversation we had: Nubianbooks.co.uk