The Rick’s Dog Deli website was constructed using Shopify and is for a local company in Central Florida selling nutritional dog food. The website is a custom Shopify themed website using Shopify templating language Liquid, CSS and JavaScript. The objective was to take the existing website and update the website with a new design and updating functionality to the online store. The new design was created in Sketch, and I was tasked to create the new website, along with the new feature of the new “Meal Builder”.
The challenge was to take an Excel document from the store owner that has all the data to calculate how much food someone would need to buy for the breed, age, weight, and activity of their dog. The backend will take that information and give the recommended meal and quantity the pet owner will need and automatically add the food to their cart on the website. I was able to create this new functionality by using Shopify’s API and get to work with the formula taken from the Excel document to supply the user’s cart with the recommended food for an easy check-out experience.
