Winter in Chicago often brings cold winds with a chill to freeze an unwary soul. But it does have its upsides. For one, fashionable, sexy boot season begins downtown! So in honor of this wonderful time of the year, and Amazon’s aStores coming out of beta, I’ve begun work on reBootzu.
reBootzu is an online boutique of sexy women’s boots. The boutique was built using Amazon.com’s latest storefront API, the aStore. The new API makes it very easy to quickly set up an Amazon affiliate storefront with very little html required. Calling it an API isn’t really accurate. Storefronts are set up using a wizard on Amazon.com, almost anyone can do this, but like most things on the web, those with more web design experience will get the best results.
I had a lot of fun looking picking out boots for the site. But for me the real fun was in building something new. In this particular case, I want to see just how much I can do without resorting to PHP scripts and in as little time as possible.