University Garage Sale
University Garage Sale was a web startup company that was just getting started when they found me and hired me to do all the PHP development. The site’s goal was to encourage and facilitate the selling and buying of items among college students. Users were to be able to post a classified ad for an item they had that they were trying to sell. Photos, details and a price would be included for each item. Anyone could browse the site looking for items. They could search by school or the entire site. There was no payment methods built into the site as the users had to contact them and arrange that on their own.
They owners purchased a PHP classifieds software package but it didn’t quite fit their needs and so they hired me to tweak, add, change and revamp it. I added some new features such as a wishlist and streamlined the posting process to a one page AJAX process. The site is currently not operating due to marketing problems although the owners are in the process of revamping their business model.
Technology Used:
- PHP
- Smarty Template Engine
- (X)HTML
- MySQL Database