SEO marketing Brighton » Web Design

Multisite Search Suggest

Pinakin Patel — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:31:37 +0000

Beadazzle run two jewellery sites online. One site www.beadazzle.co.uk sells official Pandora Jewellery and the www.beadazzle-boutique.co.uk site sells all other non Pandora Jewellery products. Due to Pandora’s strict selling guidelines, they cannot sell any other products apart from Pandora on a single site.

This meant that if they wanted to buy item Pandora and non Pandora products they would need to place two separate transactions. To make it easier to find products I implemented a Search Suggest feature which is licensed from Code Canyon and modified it to work on Digishop. Then wrote a php script to pull product information from Beadazzle Boutique into the Search suggest script.

Customers can now type in the search box and products from both sites will be suggested to them, and click on a non Pandora product will result in a new window opening for beadazzle boutique. This will hopefully show loyal Pandora customers that Beadazzle sell more than just Pandora.

This script can also be implemented in X-Cart which is what I will be implementing in Beadazzle Boutique.

New Batmitzvah and Wedding London Photographer Blog for Graham’s Images

Pinakin Patel — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:55:38 +0000

Just put Graham’s Images Blog live. Built in wordpress the Blog is being used as an SEO tool to target visitors from Graham Photo Events to his main photography site: Batmitzvah and Wedding London Photographer

Weddings, Bar/Batmitzvahs and parties london

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Snowflakes at Beadazzle Pandora Towers

Pinakin Patel — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:24:46 +0000

Dave has put the Christmas theme live on the Beadazzle Pandora Charms site. Adding a Christmas theme, or Christmas “skin” is a great little way to effectively market to your customers without investing huge amounts of time and money.

pandora christmas theme

Xmas Skin has been added to John and Ginger Online Stores

Pinakin Patel — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 10:19:04 +0000

Dave has just put the Christmas Skins live for the three John and Ginger Online Stores.

John and Ginger are official stockists of Dermalogica, Dermalogica Clean Start and Decleor

John and Ginger

John and Ginger 4 Teens

John and Ginger Beauty

Impressive Jquery slider on Code Canyon

Pinakin Patel — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:28:44 +0000

Just come across an impressive jquery slider on the code canyon website. It does animation and look ideal for an online store.

Try it out here : http://codecanyon.net/item/jquery-onebyone-slider-plugin/full_screen_preview/684613

Full product Information : http://codecanyon.net/item/jquery-onebyone-slider-plugin/684613

Ipad browser testing

Pinakin Patel — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 20:53:40 +0000

We have just got our hands on an old Ipad 1 which we bought from John at John and Ginger. So we can now fully test new site builds on Safari for Ipad and Safari for Iphone. The safari for Ipad give pretty much an exact copy of a site as Firefox and Google chrome, but do not expect your site to work the same on an iphone.

We have even cleaned it up and bought a new leather case of Amazon for it. Who needs an Ipad2 when the first one does the job anyway.

Another day another design

Pinakin Patel — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 08:09:01 +0000

Today I’m designing for a VOIP website template that has the flexibility to be rebranded as required. I think a trawl through iStock and Shutterstock will get the ball rolling if I can avoid too many 3D images of globes and mobiles.

Off we go!

Dave F

Website for Brighton Antique Gift Shop

Pinakin Patel — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 13:25:43 +0000

This website is coming soon!

Dave has used his graphic skills to create a strong graphic styled website that sells this high street shop’s unique product range. This site will be content managed and built in Drupal.

Beadazzle Boutique X-Cart store goes live

Pinakin Patel — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:43:27 +0000

We have just put Beadazzle Boutique’s new X-Cart e-commerce store live today.

The new design is very strong and the functionality is bang up to date.

Visit: www.beadazzle-boutique.co.uk

‘Why is it so expensive to pay a developer to migrate my store?’

Pinakin Patel — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:45:36 +0000

‘Why is it so expensive to pay a developer to migrate my store?’

Migration

First of all ‘migration’ is a misleading word as there is no magic button. Migrating from one e-commerce platform to another simply means building the whole site again.

The devil is in the detail

Re-creating a website design to match its present state often means catching up with several years of design tweaks and modifications by the site owner. For example, if a site owner has added extra images, links, videos or html styling, these areas have to be first identified and then re-created manually.

In other words your site design doesn’t truly end at the homepage.

Exporting and Importing Products

Product data – Product Name, Description and Prices, are exported into a CSV and then re-imported into the new software but all extraneous html has to be stripped out before a clean import can be achieved. This html then has to be re-created manually (See last paragraph)

Shipping, taxes and countries

These settings can often be quite complex and the new platform may handle these differently – no two platforms are ever truly ‘like for like’

Cross Browser Testing

Everything also has to be thoroughly tested across IE, Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome for layout and functionality.

I hope this helps to explain a little