If, like me, you enjoyed Mary Portas’ TV Series ‘Queen of Shops’ then you might find this article on the BBC mobile site interesting. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16153541
Ms. Portas courted criticism from some predictable sources when she published a report concerning the parlous state of Britain’s ‘High Street’. It’s a nebulous term that I guess means the town centre, although how that translates to a specific locale will need a bit more tailoring.
The report was scathing of what it sees as obstructions in the way of small businesses, and that side of it I feel is spot on. If there [...] Continue Reading…
It may not be a new phrase to you but I first heard “bricks-and-clicks” just last week, while I was researching a case study I’ve been working on for the cookware retailer Art of Living who have two shops and an eCommerce website.
It refers to a business model just like theirs; part retail and part online. Nothing unusual, but the way you marry together two different sides of the same business is crucial, and I think our b:web team should be proud of their work on the Art of Living website. Anyway, enough backslapping.
It occurred to me [...] Continue Reading…
I am really excited to be able to finally share the DietHeaven project with you. DietHeaven is a new eating plan that is set to take the UK by storm in 2012. We have worked closely with founders Karen and Liz to create a brand, logo and online solution that will set them apart from the competition.
DietHeaven was born as a result of Karen’s own experience in making some changes to her lifestyle and loosing an amazing 5 stone of weight. The concept behind DietHeaven is to provide [...] Continue Reading…
eCommerce websites have a unique set of requirements: they are a combination of technology, intuitive design, gorgeous graphic design and personality. Driving traffic to a website is a carefully blended mix of SEO, SEM, email campaigns, social media, advertising and PR. The long term success depends on the fulfillment and customer service provided (usually) off-line.
In order to celebrate the diversity and complexity of eCommerce websites we are hosting The BIG eCommerce Conference 2012 – London| South East on May 29th at the HG Wells Conference [...] Continue Reading…
We recently created the branding, logo and a hand-crafted beautiful single page website for Oko.
We absolutely loved the project. We were able to flex our geeky muscles and used some of the following technologies on the build: HTM5, Google fonts, CSS3 transitions, CSS3 transform, jquery and some Ajax (phew!).
Since the launch a few weeks ago we have been busy working on a blog design that would compliment the main website and use all the lovely branding that we have put in place.
Here is the main page design.
Home page
Here is the post page [...] Continue Reading…
