Butler Sourcing Wizard
Client: Butler Sourcing
Role: Backend Developer
When: 2009
So it’s not the prettiest site to look at, but it’s got some of my best code under the hood.
Butler Sourcing, a manufacturer in China, approached me through recommendation in December of 2009. They had a very complex vision that they were having trouble realizing with their outsource teams. They wanted to create a template for a series of websites for specific products. The template would need to be tweaked visually for each site of course, but it also needed to feature an interactive quote wizard that a user could use to “build” a customized product.
I developed a custom Wordpress plugin and a Wordpress theme to achieve this. The plugin allows Butler to set up an arbitrary number of “steps” for each site, and then an arbitrary number of options for each step, each with an image. The design will automatically flex for any combination, and accommodate option images of wildly varying shapes and sizes. Butler has the ability to let a step accept only one selected option, or multiple options.
I also developed a custom Wordpress plugin to display a dynamic jQuery slideshow of examples for each site.
I delivered all of this to Butler in less than one month.
Try my wizard out on a live site here.
