PixelMEDIA Inc.

For the majority of my career I’ve worked on and around e-commerce sites, and I’ve seen a broad range of database designs and site architectures. Within that broad range I’ve seen many good and bad practices, and one of the worst is to design an e-commerce site that can’t scale to meet the business’s future needs. These sites tend to be havens for odd bugs and are likely to become maintenance nightmares. Read More…

In mid-July, two hockey sticks showed up on the desk of designer Onur Orhon. These weren’t the ordinary sticks you’d see at a sporting goods store: they were prototypes straight from the headquarters of Bauer Hockey, of the updated One95 stick and the brand-new Vapor X:60. All the hockey fans at PixelMEDIA crowded around and hefted the sticks, inspecting the technical innovations and admiring their lighter weight.

The sticks stayed in the office through the fall, as the PixelMEDIA team worked to bring them online. Bauer Hockey hired PixelMEDIA to tackle the MY BAUER project, a rich Flash application where players can purchase and personalize Bauer’s top-of-the-line sticks. From choosing a pattern, grip, and color to printing a player’s name right on the stick, MY BAUER walks users through their choices and gives a three-dimensional preview of their purchase. Read More…

Business Challenge
When ViaLuxe, a premier retailer of luxury watches and goods online, decided to launch a new shopping experience, they started by talking with PixelMEDIA. To launch their new venture, ViaLuxe needed a developer who could support a catalog that changes daily and the rigor of fast-paced sales.

PixelMEDIA Solution
PixelMEDIA came to the project with years of experience supporting the MainStreet e-commerce platform. Pixel had already built customized administration interfaces for ViaLuxe’s in-house CRM system and business users – from sales representatives, or “concierges,” to administrators and third-party retailers – and the development team extended those interfaces to support ViaLuxe’s new business model. Read More…

Business Challenge
BuyECCO.com originally launched with an off-the-shelf hosted commerce solution that was quickly outgrown. In order to meet the growing needs of the business, ECCO needed a partner that would provide a custom solution that would evolve as business needs matured, providing more robust tools that support their critical business activities, including: Read More…