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After initial consultation, we designed the top banner logo and set up the web design.

Instant Magic Tricks is a video learning site, where people can see street magic tricks being performed, and then purchase the solution. The solution is an electronic download product in the form of a video file.

Originally the site went live early 2005 before an osCommerce advanced e-commerce facility existed in the sitebuilder. E-commerce was originally provided by the external PayPal basket, but even for around 20 products this became unmanageable since cutting and pasting of HTML code was involved whenever a pricing change was needed, and PayPal isn't really geared up for electronic product delivery.

Once we moved over to using osCommerce for the online shop section of the site, everything became much easier to manage for the client, and osCommerce's electronic product delivery, with our own customisations to allow download from external websites, made things much easier.

The site also demonstrates the use of Flash for embedded video clips.