Now we have researched, designed – today we have finished the installation of the bare shop system on our customer’s Loved and Found web site. That means that the naked, very ugly, system is there. We can now start changing the look and feel to the design the customer has chosen and soon the site will be ready for testing and inspecting by our dear customer Geordie.
Loved and Found installed
February 5th, 2010brochure for Body Control Pilates
February 2nd, 2010We have been working with our dear friends at Body Control Pilates for a few years now, about three I think. At the moment, we are revamping their big A4 brochure which describes the entire company offering in a nutshell. Nearly finished! We have already set the entire text, it has been proof-read various times, all photos are chosen and we are re-sizing and finishing them to add them all into the finished layout. It is looking beautiful.
online shop site taking shape
February 1st, 2010The shop web site we researched for last week is taking shape. We have sent our usual three design suggestions to the customer and she already liked one of them very much, so the design phase for this particular project will be very short and speedy. Usually it takes a few rounds of going back and forth, perfecting a design, adding elements in or taking them out.
This shop is called Loved and Found. It will be selling vintage clothes and accessories as well as offering window dressing services. Fab stuff – watch this space, I will show you the site soon!
my favourite blogs
January 29th, 2010Here’s a few links to the blogs we built in the last few months (to years) which I like best:
http://www.calverts.coop/blog/
http://allycapellino.co.uk/blog.php?cat=3
http://www.beautifulthings.co.uk/blog.html
http://boutiqueprovencale.co.uk/shop/information.php?info_id=1
http://www.catherinehayward.co.uk/blog/
Hope you like them.
working on a blog for a web site
January 28th, 20102010 must be blogging year. We have added blog systems to customers’ web sites for some time but now they are selling like hot cakes. We usually use Wordpress and if it’s an existing site, we upload the blog system onto the customer’s web space, take the design of the site, transplant it on the blog, add a link to the web site and voila, a blog is added to the customer’s site that looks exactly like their web site and fits in seamlessly. This usually takes us a day in working time. At the moment, we are working on one for www.midascorporateconsulting.com.
project management tool
January 26th, 2010We’ve set up a new little project management tool for ourselves. It’s okay but not great – I wish we could just magic one out of the sky, I have been looking for one that does (the FEW!) things I would like it to do but helas. This one is called Feng Office. We shall soldier on trying it out and maybe improving it or hoping for it to be improved by its creators.
Of course it is open source, as everything we work with is open source.
research for an online shop site
January 25th, 2010We have a new concession of an online shop and are researching the style the customer likes.
There is a really nice blog of a lady whose site our customer likes: http://abigailahern.wordpress.com/.
More to come soon! 
a small new contract
January 5th, 2010We have just been commissioned to build a small ecommerce add-on to a very upmarket bag manufacturer’s site. It’s a Flash site, so it cannot be seamless, as we don’t work with Flash and specialise in making our web sites as accessible and user-friendly as possible. It will be interesting!
back from home
January 4th, 2010Hello,
Stephy, Jenny and I are back from a nice break. It went down to minus 17 degrees at times in Germany! Airports were a nightmare, I had a 30 hour interlude at Heathrow before I could finally have a nice gluehwein in a German winter wonderland.
I hope you are all relaxed and renewed for a nice 2010, I am sure it will be a great year!
Anuschka
it is schneiting!
December 16th, 2009I told a customer of ours that “es schneit” and as he is a photographer and sits in his dark room in his dark cellar, he didn’t know what I meant and had to call his wife. Now he says it is schneiting and asked whether we’d continue working on his web site or go out and play. No play for us! Stephy and I just squeezed our noses excitedly against the window and are now back – I am doing the design mock-ups for our photographer’s web site, and Stephy is doing the HTML coding for our architectural psychologist customer. But we put a cheesy Christmas CD on!