Innovative ecommerce website design and hosting

Nvisage is an innovative ecommerce website design companyfocusing specifically on the SME sector, i.e. businesses that range from start-ups through to those turning over about £50m pa.

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Full service ecommerce web design and ecommerce hosting

Whilst we are a full service ecommerce web design, development, marketing and hosting company, we are genuinly different to most other ecommerce website design companies. We do not take a one size fits all approach and offer a truly tailored solution which takes into account our client’s specific needs based upon:

  • their market
  • their audience(s)
  • their budget
  • their specific needs

Our ecommerce web design process

The design process strangely does not start with design. It is broken into the following phases:

  • Discovery Phase
  • Wireframing and Prototyping Phase
  • Graphical Design Phase
  • Implementation and Programming Phase
  • QA and UAT Phase
  • Go live
  • Support and Maintenance

Discovery Phase

The Discovery Phase is where we get to know about your aims, your business, your customers and how we go about the process of aligning what you have to sell with what your customers want to buy, even if they don’t know it yet.. We look at:

  • your target audience profiles
  • why they are likely to buy from you
  • what their motivation is for buying to identify good key phrases for search engine promotion
  • how you want to engage with your audiences e.g. social media, newsletters, social ecommerce
  • any specific features you would like incorporated
  • any specific integrations you would like incorporated

Wireframing and Prototyping Phase

 

A wireframe is the blueprint for a website and is a high effective process in order to ensure your site thoroughly meets the needs of your audiences and aligns with your business needs. this is achieved through HTML prototyping without applying the design. The core benefits are:

a)   The site is always focused upon core business objectives and desirable outcomes
b)   Consequently you focus much more upon the visitor types and what they need to achieve
c)   This makes for a far more effective user centred site with a greater conversion rate*
d)   You can see all of the different templates in the final site
e)   You can get a good understanding of how the content relates to the site
f)    You get to be able to amend the site much more quickly and efficiently than with finished design
g)   You focus upon the visitor and what they need from the site rather than design
h)   You can see how the pages interact with each other

Graphical Design Phase

Implementation and Programming Phase

QA and UAT Phase

Go live

Support and Maintenance

New Magento ecommerce site launched for RSPCA

We are really pleased to announce that we have just launched the new ecommerce site for the RSPCA selling virtual gifts. The system is based upon the Magento ecommerce platform and to keep costs down the client chose a ready made design template to use.

New RSPCA magento ecommerce site

The site is a major part of the RSPCA fund-raising efforts and sells virtual or real cards along with a fixed price donation which goes to a specific part of the RSPCA’s work such as:

  • lost pet B&B
  • wildlife incubator
  • animal rescue kit

As well as the cards and virtual gifts you can also by physical items such as chocolates and add them to your shopping cart.

The site is updated daily by an XML feed from the third party fulfillment house to ensure all stock is displayed on the site at accurate levels. Sales are fed back to the fulfillment house via another XML feed which provides all of the fullfilment information and allows each card to be printed on demand.

If you are interested in a magento ecommerce solution or a charity based virtual gift solution, then please get in touch with Clinton Porter.

Magento ecommerce development options

Magento is rapidly taking the ecommerce world by storm and has already established itself as one of the leading ecommerce platforms in a very short space of time. There are three options for developing a Magento ecommerce site, namely:

  • Magento Community Edition
  • Magento Enterprise Edition
  • Magento Professional Edition

We will concnetrate here upon the two most popular versions, the Community and Professional Editions.

Magento Community Edition

The Magento Community Edition is the free to use open-source version of the software. This is its main draw, but, it is not supported and needs a good level of knowledge to get the most from it. Typically it will be used by experienced ecommerce developers or expereinced in-house development teams.

There is a large support community and many thousands of additional modules have been developed to allow the platform to be customised in just about any way that an ecommerce owner could wish.

Magento Professional Edition

The Profesisonal edition as the name implies, means paying for it. And for the payment of  $3,000 USD pa the site owner gets the following principle benefits:

  • support from the parent company Magento
  • gift certificates physical and virtual
  • customer store credits
  • rewards points

However, the site must be installed and developed through a Magento Professional Partner. For most stores the community version is sufficient and provides the optimum value.

For an informal discussion about how we ca help make the most of your ecommerce site call or email us now.

Magento ecommerce developers and development

Magento is one of the leading ecommerce platforms on the market today. It is an open source platform and provides the option of a free starting point with its magento community ecommerce platform. This is obviously very atractive as it allows businesses to have access to a high end and powerful ecomemrce platform without the usual costs associated with developing such a site from scratch.

However, it is a double edged sword, because the community version of the mageneto platform is unsupported and Magento themselves state that it is only suitable for experienced magento ecommerce developers and development teams. Magento is a powerful but complex environment and to get the most out of it you do need experience with installing its complexities and getting the most out of it.

At Nvisage, we are building on our highly expereinced web and ecommerce development team to offer a complete Magento  solution. We have all the necessary skills in-house to bring your ecommerce project to fruition and add real value to your business. Unlike taking on a freelancer or a one-man band, with Nvisage you get the complete package. We can undertake enterprise level ecommerce development through to small start-ups all based upon the Magento ecommerce platform. Our team includes:

  • Business Analysis
  • Information Architecture
  • Web and ecommerce specific design
  • Best practice in accessibility and usability
  • Full team of highly expereinced web developers
  • Ecommerce specific web developers
  • Full range of on-line marketing services including SEO and PPC
  • Mobile web development

We can provide a complete team or a team based upon the specific services you need. All of our team are highly qualified in their own disciplines and out project management team are Prince 2 Practitioners.

We also understand that not everyone has as much budget as they would like so we also offer a streamlined offering with the same high level of skills and service levels but at a lower price.

Give us a call or email us, we’d love to hear about your web project and discuss how we can help make it successful.