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Update:

Kreglinger Wine Estates now have € online transactions
so that International Gold Club members in Europe can purchase
Kreglinger, Pipers Brook, Ninth Island and Norfolk Rise wines online.
We have developed the € transactions to be processed via the
Ogone e-commerce gateway.

Australian customers will continue to benefit from the security and proven functionality of the past couple of years of sales via e-commerce gateway giant, Eway.

Way back in 2005, we made the Kreglinger Wine Estates website with Jaffa. Like a good wine, it has aged well. With a 100% flash interface - it is still massively impressive, only matched by it's amazing technical capacity: the site is actually a dynamic flash system...

This kind of system was extremely rare worldwide at the time (launched March 2006), and was one of the very first to be implemented in Australia. The PHP backend and the dynamic XML generation were written exclusively by us, and we worked with Jaffa on the dynamic flash.

Adam studied mathematics extensively at university, along side his computing degree, and also taught and tutored maths for many years. This mathematical strength helped extensively in the animation and transition algorithms when he worked on the flash interfaces with the wonderful designer James from Jaffa.

The home page has the main body text, along with the news items all managed by the system we have written.

There are four vineyards in the system: Kreglinger, Pipers Brook, Ninth Island and Norfolk Rise. Each vineyard has wines for sale in the system... it uses the backend to manage the wines, and the different prices for each wine for each user type (public, wine club member, gold club & international gold club). This then maps to the flash-based shopping cart.

The vineyards (left) and cellar doors (right) maps are also managed by the CMS. The accordion-style text fields are able to be changed, points on the map can be controlled, as can the popup windows from each point. These pages also link to The Vintner's Diary (below left) which we also helped on the transitions and animation algorithms.

There is a links page (left) managed by our PHP system, along with the media library (right). The media library allows full-sized digital images to be uploaded by Kreglinger staff, tagged with different categories and then downloaded for newspapers/publications etc straight from the website.

Other major areas of content management include the news, people and winemaking sections. They all use the same admin/public interfaces... all items can be fully searched, have intro pics and summary text along with full detail popup windows, all info editable via the admin interface.