Sainsburys
At a glance
- Site
- www.sainsburys.co.uk
- Info
- Online shopping portal for one of the largest UK supermarkets
- Role
- Front-end maintenance of the existing site and constructing new sections (XHTML, CSS)
Snapshots
Details
Sainsbury's is primarily run off of the .NET framework with MCMS providing the back end to the site and allowing users to take control of the content through a web interface. The various parts of the site are developed and maintained through Visual Studio 2005/2008 and changes are tracked with Subversion.
All of the site pages are based around semantic HTML & CSS layouts, allowing maximum accessibility and ease of maintenance.
The site content is managed through a web-based interface, with a workflow system and various WYSIWYG input boxes that allow the average user to take charge of the page content. A script also exists to transfer plain text into image based headers so that a custom font can be used across all browsers.
What I did
- Building new pages based on pre-designed PSD files using HTML & CSS
- Slicing page designs in Photoshop to allow development of static HTML pages
- Working with Software Engineers to integrate HTML & CSS code into dynamic pages
- Performing maintenance by analysing and solving bug requests in the JIRA system
- Creating new builds of the site onto UAT servers for QA testing and client review
- Constructing HTML emails that render correctly in various email clients
