Denhams is a Fine Art & Antiques auction house based in West Sussex.

They hold two 1000 lot auctions every month and have a large client base of national and international clients

Denhams initial requirements were an online presence with the ability to :-

• upload and host their auction catalogue.
• advise customers when a new catalogue was available.

They were also open to suggestion on how to offer as many of their business services online.

The new Denhams website is mainly dynamic and offers new and repeat visitors constantly refreshed content. The site offers users many business services that few if any other auction house web-sites offer.

Due to its dynamic content the site maintenance is minimal. All site management is therefore done either via an admin section within the web-site, or using supplied applications running on an office PC.

The DENHAMS website offers several business services which allow users to :-

• Register an members account with the site and receive e-mails informing them of when a new catalogue is available online. Members can also receive newsletters and auction catalogues
• Specify keywords on their account so that they will be sent an email informing them is any items in an auction matching their keywords.
• Add items to their personal lot basket (the resulting list can sent to the auction rooms with bids)
• Place bids online.
• View/request condition reports of items. When a condition report is uploaded, users who requested it are e-mailed a link to the condition report. All other users can also view existing condition reports on the online catalogue

The main area of functionally revolves around the online auction catalogue. Users can browse the auction catalogue by specific category or they can search the catalogue for items that interest them.

The online catalogue page offers the visitor a choice of navigation menus. A basic categorised menu with five sections or an advanced menu of over 60 categories which is automatically generated via a supplied application.