Freelance Web Design & Development Manchester » Cubecart

Alpha Batteries

Michael — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:13:34 +0000

Alpha Batteries needed a complete web design package when they called me. Whilst they’d built a growing eBay store they felt they were missing out on a potentially lucrative eCommerce store and I had to agree. We also decided that the brand as a whole needed building into a name that people would recognise, we started slowly with both Website Baker and Cubecart in order to test the demand – and what demand it was! At present we’re around 3 months into the project and the eShop is performing so well that we’re ahead schedule and already looking into further investment into the website and I cant wait to start.

When I first spoke to John I told him that when I join a business in a web project my aim is for the long term and to be still working with them in 10, 20, 30 years time. I can truly say im looking forward to those years to come as Alpha Batteries are an excellent client and a genuine good bunch of people and we’re working together to make their web presence a great success.

www.alpha-batteries.co.uk

Topdog Fashion

Michael — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:15:56 +0000

(I looooove that Chihuahua – something tells me the Husky might eat it though)

This is a small business idea cooked up with my fiancé. At the moment it is based on CubeCart as it was extremely quick to skin. Unfortunately like most of my own projects it’s currently half completed, but the good news it will be getting rewritten early in 2009 to Magento, giving us a much fuller featured shopping cart experience.

Intially I performed some keyword research to select the key terms to use throughout the site, with the redevelopment will come a second round of Search Engine Optimisation focusing fully on getting top ranks across these terms.

I’m quite pleased with the overall design of this site, whilst not all of the intended features were eventually implemented the colour scheme and branding really hit the nail on the head – we wanted a boutique feel for our designer dog accessories and I think we achieved that. Now to take over the petwear world!

A word of caution if you visit – the store is live and functional.

http://www.topdogfashion.co.uk