Purpose

Woolcheque is a web based wool pricing tool, developed for Australian Wool Innovation (AWI) and Australian Wool Exchange (AWEX). WoolCheque has enabled wool growers to do the following:

1. Search the AWEX sales data for their wool (see Eclipse2).
2. Get an up to date market price for their wool.
3. Generate charts of historical price movements.
WoolCheque Pricing

Technology

Woolcheque has been developed using an ASP.NET front end, .NET business layer and SQL Server 2000 data layer. All prices are calculated dynamically based on data in the database, which can be updated intra-day via a separate administrative user interface. Charts are drawn based on these prices hence are also generated dynamically.
WoolCheque charting

Requirements

Almost all intended users of the Woolcheque are based in regional areas of Australia hence have minimal bandwidth and screen resolution resources. Talman designed the site in order to keep the downloaded size of each page to a minimum, and to keep the pages within a screen resolution of 800 x 600 pixels.
WoolCheque