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Zollinger Samen Website launched

by jcf. Average Reading Time: about a minute.

Today we launched a new website for one of our customers: Zollinger-Samen.ch. Zollinger Samen is a family owned business, that cultivates more than 200 plants (vegetables, flowers, herbs) and sells the seeds. They have operated over 20 years and have been pushed into the internet age by their sons.

Zollinger-Samen-Tn

The website was built with Rails and and a heavily extended Radiant for the catalogue and the shop. The wonderful design was inspired by the 20 year long history of printed catalogs and implemented by HTML and CSS wrangler Keith Bingman. We spent a wonderful time working with Zollingers on transferring catalogue and brand from print to the web. Personally, this was one of the most rewarding projects to work on, because I believe that the work Zollingers are doing on keeping genetic diversity up and cultivating the old, non-hybrid plants is very important. I have trouble with seeds that will not reproduce, so that they have to be bought again and again.

So go and visit the website, buy seeds and let a 100 flowers bloom.

And merry x-mas to all of you!

6 comments on ‘Zollinger Samen Website launched’

  1. Pupi & Maria says:

    Fantastic ! ! !

  2. Name says:

    Application error (Apache)

    “Change this error message for exceptions thrown outside of an action (like in Dispatcher setups or broken Ruby code) in public/500.html”

    Sigh…

  3. Name says:

    It’s back!

    But… how come “Choux de Bruxelles” becomes “Rosenkohl”?

    http://www.zollinger-samen.ch/fr/catalog/1/genus/1
    http://www.zollinger-samen.ch/de/catalog/1/varieties/13

    Note how the language selection gets lost between the categoy page and the detail one!

  4. Name says:

    The markup needs to be cleanup as well:

    http://www.zollinger-samen.ch/de/catalog/1/varieties/13

    line 101 column 46 – Warning: unescaped & which should be written as &

    line 102 column 47 – Warning: unescaped & which should be written as &

    line 103 column 47 – Warning: unescaped & which should be written as &

    line 18 column 3 – Warning: attribute “href” lacks value

  5. Administrator says:

    thanks for your hard work tracking errors down. The crashing is totally unexplicable – but we moved pdf generation and mailing of confirmation emails into a background process. That seems to have solved that problem.

    The choux that turns into Rosenkohl bug has been fixed – thanks for pointing that out.

    Markup validation will follow in the next round… But it doesn’l look to disastrous… :)

  6. Name says:

    Under the search:

    http://www.zollinger-samen.ch/fr/search?q=moutard

    There is a missing method or something:

    undefined method `title’ for nil:NilClass

    Also… a couple of resources are missing or something:

    http://www.zollinger-samen.ch/fr/catalog/4/

    GET /assets/1669/Sament%C3%BCtei1square.jpg HTTP/1.1
    Host: http://www.zollinger-samen.ch

    HTTP/1.x 404 Not Found
    Server: nginx/0.5.8

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