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My First Shopify Site is Complete

Hannah — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:39:07 +0000

I recently designed and developed my first Shopify online store for a small start up company.

Alfresco By Design sell a wide range of outdoor goods ranging from picnic sets and barbecue cutlery to gardening bags and bucket candles. The brief was to design and develop a modern and clean looking site ready for the spring/summer trade season.

You can see the completed site at www.alfrescobydesign.co.uk.

Stay tuned over the next few weeks for a review of Shopify and a comparison with my experiences of Cubecart.

Happy Xmas to The Curious Caterpillar

Hannah — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:38:19 +0000

After Launching the site successfully I have put together a quick christmas theme for The Curious Caterpillar to enjoy over the festive season.
You can view it on their shop until January at : http://www.thecuriouscaterpillar.co.uk

The Curious Caterpillar is Launched!

Hannah — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:21:02 +0000

Over the last few months I have been designing and building an ecommerce site for for my sister in laws party bag company. The site is now live at: http://www.thecuriouscaterpillar.co.uk

The Brief

The brief for this project was to redesign and rebuild The Curious Caterpillar site. Their current site was not functioning as required and was far from user friendly with a design that required left and right scrolling for 1024×768 users and lots of clicks for users before they could locate the desired product.

Before:

The Solution

I designed a site that was more user friendly and had bundles more fun. The site was built using cubecart,PHP, XHTML and CSS. I have had several oportunities to use cubecart prior to this project and find it one of the easiest shops to theme and build, and one of the few that adhears to web standards.

The caterpillar is featured across the site (on top of the shopping basket, on the titles and progress bar for the shopping cart.) to reinforce the branding.

Home Page:

Product Detail Page:

Progress Bar:

Conclusion

This site has been a real pleasure to work on, its allowed me to be really creative with their identity , and was an excellent opportunity to brush up on my cubecart skills.

Jewellery Design

Hannah — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:02:59 +0000

A friend (Gemma Sherwood) and I took up a hobby creating jewellery a couple of years ago and ever since we have been beading away in our spare time. As its coming up to that festive present buying time of year I thought I would do a little self promotion…

http://www.exquizite.co.uk

Wedding Table Plan and Menu

Hannah — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:55:35 +0000

My table plan and menus were styled using the same illustrations and colour scheme as my invitations.

Wedding Stationery

Hannah — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:53:27 +0000

I designed all the stationery for my big day and now its all over it seems a shame not to keep some kind of visual record of all the hours I put in working away in illustrator, printing and trimming. So here it is the finished collection of invites…

You can see the full collection on my flickr.

Exquizite Stationery

Hannah — Mon, 07 May 2007 21:56:32 +0000

In preperation for the craft fair we will be taking part in at Cressing Temple Barns, Essex. I have prepared some business cards to hand out and stickers to place on the purchased and wrapped jewellery. I am quite pleased with the final product. I have really enjoyed branding this small venture.

Mirador Villa Holidays Magazine Advert

Hannah — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 22:01:46 +0000

I was asked to create a small magazine advert for Mirador Villa Holidays as part of the some branding work I have been carrying out. Here it is all printed, how exciting to see my work in a real magazine for the first time.