Web Design News

New Retail Guru Webstore

Ilateral have been working with Retail Gurus since the business setup 10 years. They were happy with their existing website and how it worked, but had been through some evolution and now had new, very different branding and customer focus. We helped them to create a new version of the website, supporting all the new branding and some additional background...

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New Joya store online

Joya started life as a boutique gift store in the pretty Cotswold town of Nailsworth. We met them several years ago and created an online store to help showcase their products. Then came to bamboo revolution - a wonderful fabric that was ideal for socks and clothing. After some research and many overseas buying trips, Joya began to supply beautiful,...

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Antique Silver Spoons Online Store Live

This week Antique Silver Spoons went live - it's been an interesting process as this project was to rebuild an existing well established-store. However, it was originally built in Magento using a templated theme and this theme was no longer supported, which meant that there was a limit on updated Magento. Consequently, the Magento install was stuck in an old...

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New online store live

Extons are a well established, family run retailer, offering high end fashion from their 3 stores - in Abergavenny, Monmouth and Raglan. They had a poor web history, with a previous web company disappearing on them and then trying to set up their own store using Shopify. They did not find this particularly intuitive and in the end aborted the...

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Chocolate Strawberry Live

Sarah Jones of the Chocolate Strawberry in the Forest of Dean makes amazing cakes for all occasions and runs workshops on baking and cake decoration (particularly the delicate skill of painting). A simple design was needed that would showcase her designs as well as direct customers to her tutorials and recipes. She also needed to be able to set up...

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Joya eCommerce now open

Joya are now online with their own store full of unique and unusual gifts. Based in a beautiful shop in the Cotswolds, Joya specialises in housewares, bags, gifts and jewellery, including their range of lovely necklaces called Indie-Pendants.

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ProvenMentor site live

New site just gone up for ProvenMentor, a digital marketing tutoring practice. They are an accredited provider of the DMI Professional Diploma in Digital Marketing and wanted a website where prospective students could find out about the course, test their current knowledge and easily book a course. For more info, check out our work section, or take a look at...

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River Music is here

The first phase of river music is now live, giving full details of all the stock available online and in store for River Music in Ross on Wye, Herefordshire. Check out the new site and logo:

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The many faces of selling

Just read a very interesting article by Nick Atkinson about the changing face of retail, from the High Street to the internet. It appears that consumers are starting to value a more customer service based experience, rather than just 'I can buy it cheap on the internet'. Could this be a return to the face to face experience we used...

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How video can help product sales

Recent studies on consumer behaviour for ecommerce have shown a marked increase in sales when video is used to on a product page as well as images. Figures show that the most gains are for videos that are under 30 seconds in length, although there are still gains on anything from 60 to 180 seconds.

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