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01225 436109Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
We have been working with the Dive Zone in Melksham for some time now. We originally stepped in when their previous web company evaporated, leaving them with no website no email and a bit of a mess. We managed to sort them out and get them all back and running and from that took on the maintenance of their website.
When Mark Alexander at the Dive Zone managed to get a contract to sell the premium Kowalski diving torches, we were therefore the first people they called.
They needed a website to sell the torches, which they could update and maintain themselves and yet would be clear and easy to use with a strong design not too far away from their existing corporate image and also using Kowalski branding. Mark supplied the main photograph for the background, which is actually him under the sea using a Kowalski torch.
We asked Gareth Coxon of Dot Design to do the graphic design for this project and he absolutely nailed it! The design is striking clear and easy to use. With this sort of shop the navigation needs to be very clear as with only a few dozen products you need to direct the customer directly to the good stuff.
We used ZenCart as the engine for this one. ZenCart is free and Open Source and also under constant development with lots and lots of useful add-ons which made it a good fit. For instance we can supply a list of products to Google Base, Google’s shop like thingy. The shop is also fed out to Dive Zone’s Facebook page. DiveZone already had a contract with WorldPay, so it was easy to add on the payment module
The result is that DiveZone can now present a unique branded presence for Kowalski in the UK as well as sell products and maintain the shop. We like it a lot.
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
Marcel and Sara Floyd run a clematis nursery business based at Norrington Plants about half a mile down the road from Godjira Worldwide headquarters. Joe Almond from Norrington Plants is already a happy Godjira customer so when Marcel mentioned he wanted to sell plants on-line Jo pointed him in our direction.
Marcel is a specialist Climber and Clematis grower and wanted to be able to offer the plants on a website that was easy to use, easy to find and performed well in search engines.
We put together a solution based on Zen Cart, the open source e-commerce software. We figured this was going to be a shop first and foremost, so the site must look like a shop and behave like a shop and have all the bells and whistles that go with a shop.
The design needed to be in keeping with his competitors, but we hope we have added the regular Godjira touches that make it bright, clean and easy to use. Of course being Godjira, we went the extra mile with things like dynamic image resizing, search engine friendly URLs, an XML sitemap and publishing the feed out to Froogle (Google’s shop thing)*. We helped Marcel set-up PayPal to take the money and sorted out the shipping rules and helped with the terms and conditions as well, we figure we have done this sort of thing before, so it’s only fair to help.
* if you want to know what this stuff means, give us a call and we will be happy to explain!
As a result, Marcel and Sara have an on-line shop that lets them earn money while they sleep as well as represent their business on the web. Godjira have gained another friendly and happy customer.
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
CJS Services is a redesign and a re-work of a previous website we had built for John Francis and his extraordinary valve amplifiers and cleverly constructed speaker cabinets.
John had finally decided to take the plunge and give up his day job, being something very clever for Motorola, to concentrate 100% on his real passion, clever electronics for amps, speakers and guitar pedals. As a result, he needed the ability to sell on-line as well as use the website to power his on-line marketing. We didn’t want to go too far from the existing design, but wanted to freshen it up a bit and make the structure something more flexible.
We chose WordPress as the engine to build the site on; adding on the WordPress e-commerce plug-in to give John the ability to sell his upcoming range of pedals on-line. We chose WordPress in line with our published marketing method, to give John the ability to use news to power his on-line marketing and his Facebook business page. We also added on a couple of cute things like the Facebook “like button” that lets anyone with a Facebook account to quickly and simply add a link to John’s website.
We like John and we like his products. We think we’ve given him a website that is professional looking site, full of functionality to sell products and provide a base from which to power his on-line marketing. What we would really love however, is to give one of his Soul Destroyer valve pedals a long term test drive!
