For those interested in how this site is built here is some technical info

Six sites are hosted together sharing some pages and elements. Recognition of the domain used means that some pages appear differently when called from a different site.

Additionally there is a Secure Server

The site specification includes

  • HTML Information pages
  • Searchable database catalogue pages
  • Secure Order System with full back-end Sales Order Processing (SOP) system, handling Discounts, Vouchers and Trade Accounts; Members saved baskets
  • Secure Credit Card and PayPal payments
  • Membership System; User Preferences; Wish List
  • Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system
  • Customer Mailing handling both HTML and plain text messaging

Additional services are added using the same technology

  • Clubs Directory *
  • Stores Directory *
  • Weapons Dictionary *
  • Name Generator
  • Wargames Opponents finder
  • Design Your Own Miniature

Certain components ( * Y-Components) are available for linking in to 3rd party sites

Catalogue Data is exported to Froogle using ASP routines

 Developed in FrontPage and a plain text editor using
  • HTML
  • ASP
  • JavascriptL
  • XML/XSL

It utilises

  • MS Jet Engine DataBases
  • Persits ASP Mailserver
  • external RSS News Feeds

It is hosted across multiple servers

  • Microsoft Server
  • Mail Server

This site and its suite of Web Content Management applications 1SecureWeb are written and maintained by Paul Ashton and the core ordering system was originally written by Aidan Rustage-Towers of GConnect.

For information on this site, Y-Components and web development email: webmaster@amazonminiatures.com