HitCaster is a music web store launched on August 2009 by the Oulu-based mobile software company Hitmedia. As the web store grew in features, it be-came apparent that the store required an efficient administration tool to ease the upkeep and monitoring of the site.

The purpose of this thesis work was to design and implement a web-based administration site to the web store for Hitmedia. The goal was to develop an easy-to-use and comprehensive tool with which the administrators of the web store could quickly and efficiently monitor and maintain the operation of the site.

The work began with a planning phase, during which a requirement specifica-tion, a draft layout of the site and a preliminary menu structure were created. This was followed by a development phase, during which the layout and func-tionality of the site was implemented with HTML, CSS, PHP and SQL using the PostgreSQL database server. Finally the site had a trial run in a test environment, after which all the found bugs were fixed.

The site was designed to be easily extended, as it was known that the web store would be enhanced with further features in the future. The developed site was deemed to comply with the requirement specification, and was handed over to the client of the thesis work on the fall of 2010.