about

the business

mindgear makes productivity software for handheld computers. read more about mindgear and rickmer's approach to

requirements

the desired functionality of the web site was multifold. functional requirements from a user standpoint were:

• provide information about mindgear and mindgear's products
• make demo versions of the products available for download
• provide an interface for product ordering ("registration")

additional functionality required and implemented (which would not be accessible by a regular user) was:

• process incoming orders and store them in a database
• send customized registration emails to customers
• provide an interface to the customer database
• allow generation of custom emails
• automatic insertion of promotional messages into registration emails
• allow easy distribution of software updates to existing users