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If any of you have been wondering where I have been or been upto leading up to October, it has been working on the new T2 Tea website.

T2 offers Australia’s largest range of beautiful, fragrant teas from around the world. The website offers ways to further create the experience offered in their award-winning stores; browse for teawares and learn the delicate art of brewing tea developed over many centruries.

The T2Tea website (powered by Radiant Logic PTY LTD we have won a IMA award) has been a completely revamped version of the 2005 XMas site we did last year, and has been redone completely in Flash. It allows visitors to interact with T2 through the web in completely new ways, through interactive tea selectors, learning how to brew and interactive shop creating a whole new experience for the visitor.

Working with the talented new media team at Carbon+ (now Rich Creative), Radiant Logic PTY LTD had the task of designing and developing the Ecommerce and Content/Product Management for the project, as well as creating a fast system for the Flash Designers and Developers to access and search the information, and, process orders, with zero impact on their design. Using Flash Remoting and my own developed Ecommerce and CMS products this developed the foundation to power the rich interface (RIA) architecture with zero impact on the design/presentation of the interface. Staff can quickly update all content, including products, news and pages, staff area, employment etc. The ecommerce system accepts online credit card transaction, calculated australia post shipping and optinal gift wrapping services as well. There was never a break across to HTML like many other Flash ecommerce sites, this site kept the user in the site the whole time while still providing a Safe Secure system for visitors to process their purchase orders online. The system saves time for various wholesaler and resellers by allowing ordering to occur online instead of a paper based system.
Please check out the site and have a browse of all the interactive features, I hope you enjoy:

http://www.t2tea.com.au/

NOTE: As well as this project I have been working on several other flash driven sites, all content managed, as well as another flash ecommerce project to be launched shortly. I will keep you posted.