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We developed this site as a result of an established working relationship between Adam and the client, Sheryl Brennan, from working together on the School of Nursing & Midwifery website at the University of Tasmania.

Originally we designed & developed the site under a Shopify account, nursingstories.myshopify.com, with the whole design based around the first book by Sheryl, Contradictory Stories - An Oral History of 1960s Nursing Students.

Upon publishing her second book, The Fence on the Precipice - Child Welfare Nursing 1918-1930, we incorporated both books into a fresh redesign which can easily expand if the author expands upon her releases.

Although Shopify is a reasonable system, the fees involved (5% of each transaction + e-gateway fees) means it can get expensive, and we had just finished a simple shopping cart application (soon to be launched at Drag'n'Shop), so we implemented the design into our new system. NursingHistory.com.au uses a simple PayPal checkout, which accepts all major credit cards, and is simplified if you have a PayPal account.

We also helped to setup and manage a Google AdWords account for the site - queries for "nursing history australia" and similar will constantly yield results.

Pages can be added, edited, published/unpublished, sorted in the menu or deleted. Editing is via a WYSIWYG editor uses our image library module.

Products can also be added, edited, sorted or deleted. Products have multiple variations per book (eg paperback, pdf, etc) which can be added/edited/sorted/deleted. Editing a product uses the same WYSIWYG editor and image library as the pages for consistency.