Client: Lattelekom Runs: SiteSupra VCS 2.0 Pro on Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP. Geographical span: Latvia. Development timeframe: three months. "Mister postman look and see Is there a letter in your bag for me I been waiting a long long time Since I heard from that girl of mine"                                    The Beatles.

Sends your email to any postbox in Latvia. Who's done what?! - point with your mouse over team member pics below. The project idea was born in the heart of Lattelekom R&D unit, where young and innovative professionals are restlessly looking for the ways to leverage huge telecom giant's resource base for developing new businesses. The new service idea was born when R&D professionals realized they can deploy the existing invoice and letter print-out routine Lattelekom outsourced to LEP for developing publicly available email-to-postbox service. The idea was then immediately turned into a RFP and then a project that Vide Infra has won.

Our objective was to create a web interface to the print-out and mailing system run by Latvijas Elektroniskais Pasts. The interface should have included the payment facility with instant payment and pre-payment features, some easy-to-use address books and letter templates features as well as stats tracking system. All in all the system we were going to build should have look and feel of a common webmail facility. The only differences were the payment module and perhaps preview function, since the users will definitely like to check the look of the actual letter to be delivered by a postman. We designed the system on a paper and then got to the actual development. While the zMail features' programming was going according to the earlier-developed system specifications we focused on the website's outlook. We wanted the user interface to be simple, functional and easy-to-use, but at the same time we didn't want to stay with something common for all web mail systems. At the end we developed original headers almost for every page on the site and equipped it with a historical collection of all Latvian post marks.

OK, a few words about how it works indeed. When you finish your letter you pay for the postage using Bank Link interface - a system that communicates with the Hansa Banka. After the payment confirmation is received zMail forms a RTF file and sends it over FTP to the LEP facility, which takes care for printing and mailing your letter.

On some extremely hot August day we took a series of pictures for the website. Igor Plyusch, the design lead for zMail, developed a list of ideas for the shots, we got out of the office, borrowed a table from the nearby coffee shop, and within 15 minutes we had all shots we needed for the site. Thanks to Nick's EOS D1, the shots were great. "Who has a few santims to spend?" - while testing the payment module almost all company was asked to get involved in running test payments. We needed to test the interface with the bank, so some some serious amount of 1 santim (1/100 of a Latvian Lat) payments was transferred.