2006-09-01  New C&W BooKstore Site launches

Loopdeloop Interactive has today launched a new web site for the BC Children's and Women's Health Centre Bookstore.

C&W Bookstore commercializes education resources created by health professionals for families, patients, and clinicians.

Since its inception in 2003, C&W Bookstore has exponentially increased the number of products offered to accompany the growth in their sales. This increase cluttered the website's interface and made it difficult for people to quickly find what they were looking for.

As a solution to the problem, the database was modified to allow the website to differentiate between resources targeted to professionals--doctors, nurses, counsellors, etc.--and to those more suitable for families.

In addition, a fresh website look was created. The fast downloading new design matches the recently redesigned Provincial Health Services Authorities logo while maintaining the bookstore's own identity.

Finally, to accommodate more content, a new top navigation bar was added to link to new added pages.

This project was successfully achieved in cooperation with the Family Resource Library at BC Children's Hospital.

The challenge:

To redesign C&W Bookstore Website in order to accommodate new content, enhance its visual layout, and upgrade its functionality.

The solution:

http://bookstore.cw.bc.ca

• CSS based layout with a clean design, ease of use and optimized to be compatible with different versions of major browsers
  
  
• Enhanced ability to search for an item according to not only its subject but its target audience (i.e., families or professionals).
  
  
• 'News & Events' section added as well as 'Copyright & permissions' .

Please, tell us what you think of the new C&W Bookstore website .
Thank you!