Alabama Farmers Cooperative is a regional federated, supply and marketing agricultural cooperative with 46 member associations, which include approximately 90 retail locations with annual revenue of over $300 million.

AFC has grown to include more than 2,300 employees through a series of joint ventures and is now one of the largest farmer-owned agriculture related businesses in the Southeastern United States.

In April of 2008 ASI completed development of the new Alabama Farmers Co-Op (AFC) website. With any organization of this size, development translated to various needs in their web presence.

In all, ASI developed 7 database components, including a custom calendar application and a PDF database. In addition to data components, we also built a custom map tool to not only illustrate the coverage of locations around Alabama, but also provide a rich experience in gathering information on AFC stores.

The calendar application was created exclusively for AFC, combining their site's unique look, crisp functionality, and social networking to Facebook, Digg, and del.icio.us for calendar events.

For the development, ASI was given an existing PhotoShop design to which we created a clean CSS & XHTML 1.1 based layout.

Work also included a back-end administration tool for AFC employees to manage the site and content. The site is expected to launch Q2 2008.

http://www.alafarm.com

Developed for The Barco Firm