Case Study for Rio-Mints

Lucas Liang | July 15, 2011

The Challenge

Rio MintsThe Sweet Life group is an innovative producer of high quality sweeteners, breath mints and semi-pharmaceutical products. They have sales offices in Switzerland, the Netherlands, Russia, Hong Kong, and China. Boasting a European standard manufacturing facility located in the heart of the Pearl River delta in China, Sweet Life combines the best of both worlds to produce a creative range of sugar-free and special nutritive products. Sweet Life entrusts BysoftChina to develop a new website to present their company image, products, events and etc.

The Solution

Tailor-made Design:

Our senior designer in BysoftChina has created a whole set of cool and fancy looking visual elements, toreflect the style and feelRio mints websiteaccording to the customer’s requirement. A huge amount of images with vivid colors make sure that the customer’s brand image will be easier to be remembered and liked by most of the Chinese market.

Content Management System:

  • The project was built on world famous Joomla! CMS platform to help Sweet Life to easily manage entire website contents from a single menu item to page content.
  • BysoftChina provided an easy-to-use product management system along with the CMS for products manipulation.

Multilingual Website:

The website is available in both English and Simplified Chinese, to meet the needs to promote the product and brand image to both Chinese and foreign end clients. Sweet Life could even add more and more language versions autonomously in the Backend.

The ResultsRio mints website 2

With this new website based on the Joomla! Content Management System, Sweet Life can now easily update information, create new product, events, news and articles any time he wishes, using the powerful Backend interface of the system autonomously. This significantly reduces the trouble and the cost of demanding a third party company to modify codes for the website, just to add a presentation of a new product.

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Social Networks – Alternatives in China

Lucas Liang | June 3, 2011

Since 2009, most of the world’s famous social network sites are successively blocked within China. But as usual, if one service is no more accessible, a local alternative will start to emerge from the market.

What are the Chinese equivalents for the known social networks?

Social Network Site – Facebook type: RenRen and Kaixin001.

Renren.com LogoRenRen (人人网), previously called “XiaoNei”, started in May 1999 as an alumni system for the Chinese university students. The website works quite the same as Facebook, it reflects the real relationship of the students in Universities. XiaoNei provides to the students a platform to share contact information, send messages or organize events. The first requirement to have a XiaoNei account is that you must register with a university .edu email address, and limited to a block of IP address matching your school. This was the method XiaoNei used to assure that only students are in this network.

With the rise of Facebook, XiaoNei decided also to expand their service: in 2009, after years of the limitation on the students, XiaoNei decided to change the brand name to RenRen (direct translation: Everyone), and to remove this limitation and allow all people from the society to be able to create an account. The official reason for this is that most of the students have graduated and stepped into the society, and it’s more convenient for the graduated students to still log in to their XiaoNei account without this limit. But the real reason of this delimitation is that RenRen wishes to become a SNS serving the whole Chinese society, but not only to the students.

After the opening of the platform API, RenRen and other 3rd party web application development companies have developed thousands of RenRen applications, including blogging, photo sharing, music and video sharing, and therefore, gained many new users. In 2010, the number of RenRen registered users has passed over 150 million. Read more »

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Web Design Tips: 5 Laws of Ecommerce Navigation Design

Florence SONG | May 4, 2010

To avoid the pitfalls of a site design that is too confusing, too ugly, or too experimental to be effective, the ecommerce site owner must strike a balance between leading-edge techniques and technologies, effectiveness, and aesthetics. So, in this article of “Web Design Tips” we will outline the laws for ecommerce site navigation design based on our projects experience to help any ecommerce business. Read more »

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Web Design Tips: 5 Laws of Ecommerce Navigation Design

Florence SONG | June 11, 2009

To avoid the pitfalls of a site design that is too confusing, too ugly, or too experimental to be effective, the ecommerce site owner must strike a balance between leading-edge techniques and technologies, effectiveness, and aesthetics. So, in this article of “Web Design Tips” we will outline the laws for ecommerce site navigation design based on our projects experience to help any ecommerce business. Read more »

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Design Integration Guideline of Magento Development

Florence SONG | October 27, 2008

In this topic, you may find Standard development workflow/Prepare working environment/Layout comprehension/Introduce Block/Understand header and footer elements
design-integration-guideline.pdf

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