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!
Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Go-go Wear is a shop website for a range of sexy shoes and boots.
We were asked to make it clean clear and simple to use with a focus on the products themselves. We were also asked to come up with a logo and branding.
We decided to use ZenCart, the free Open Source shopping cart software. Zen Cart is fully featured and has lots of available add-ons. Plus it’s free, which is the best price!
We came up with a logo design and site design that we felt reflected the nature of the shoes. Quite often these shoes are sold with a range of other products like lingerie and we wanted a look and feel that separated us from that market, hence the groovy chick in a seventies stylee.
We also wanted to promote the site using a blog, rather than throw it all in together and risk losing the clean nature of the shop site, we added a separate WordPress based blog at blog.gogowear.co.uk and then linked to two together by putting RSS feeds from each site on to the other. (Something you have to use a third party feed manager for, in this case we used Feedburner).
We also set up a Facebook Fan Page at facebook.com/gogowear and a Twitter feed at twitter.com/gogowear and populated both with the RSS feed.
We really like this one. It’s simple, elegant and yet technically very clever with lots of integration going on behind the scenes. The shoes also rock !
