Armed Forces Art UK

Armed Forces Art UK sell greeting cards and limited edition aviation prints generating income for various charities.

This sales site contains over 1000 aviation images and products which are continuously increasing. All images featured have the option to purchase as greeting cards, various sizes of fine art prints and canvases. The image listings are managed via the administration control panel giving full control of the items, offers, shipping and payment modules. There is even a section to enter special coupon codes which will give the customer special promotional discounts.

Individual pages host all the product information with special selection options such as size or colour etc. Inset images allow the user to see larger images and to see certain items in more detail. Each product can have a selection of related products to help encourage the viewer to other items.

Full shopping cart feature stores the selected item in a smooth drop down menu with the option to progress to checkout or hold the information while the viewer explores more features and products on the site.

Read how Wicko Design helped The British Bee Charity increase website traffic and sales by building the charity a new e-commerce webstore.

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Cotswold Bowls Centre

E-commerce online shop

Cotswold Bowls Centre required a new online shop to sell their lawn bowls products. The website needed to be clean and simple to manage, allowing products to be updated easily.

Since the launch of the website, Cotswold Bowls Centre has successfully processed regular sales. They have been able to adjust pricing and change product details as required.

The site is built on a responsive template that works for mobile and desktop devices. We adjusted CSS styles to improve the overall look and feel of the website from desktop, tablet and smartphone devices. There is a meta tag manager in the site for all products and pages within the website. This has helped set all meta details for the site, build a sitemap and submitted it to Google. The site has seen progressive organic growth within the Google search engine.

Built on the latest Joomla CMS with VirtueMart shopping cart on a gantry template, with a one-page checkout and PayPal payment gateway, the shop allows customers to choose, checkout, and monitor their orders progress. An SSL certificate on the server protects customer security. Using Wicko Design’s website maintenance servicethe site receives regular site audits, admin protection and full site backup to another server, ensuring all details are protected.

Visit Cotswold Bowles Centre and browse the bowls products.

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Kid-A

E-commerce website for get go fone

Working with our client, award-winning creative solutions agency Kid-A, we designed, developed, tested and launched this e-commerce website for a new mobile phone accessory brand get go fone. Our brief was to create a website that delivered a seamless, hands-free retail operation – with the additional challenge that it needed to be up and running within just 12 weeks!

We developed the website in WordPress, selecting to use this off-the-shelf platform because it allowed us to deliver a fully functional e-commerce website in a fraction of the time and for significantly less budget than a bespoke solution would have required.

The versatility of WordPress gave us the creative scope to design a visually impactful website that reflects get go fone’s branding and provides an attractive showcase for the products being retailed. We utilised the WooCommerce plugin to optimise future scalability and to ensure the site has the capability to integrate with virtually any service provider.

We incorporated a wide range of functionality, integrating the website with other e-commerce systems, including solutions for stock management and customer payments (we introduced our client to their payment gateway partner Gr8pay). The website delivers an intuitive user experience. Visitors can browse by accessory category or use the search tool and can zoom in on images for high-resolution detail.

A key design consideration was making checkout as clear and straightforward as possible. We achieved this by auto-populating information, minimising mouse clicks and clearly showing shoppers where they are in the checkout process. Customer security was also a priority, and our client engaged a specialist company to undertake ‘penetration testing’, in order to make sure the site we built conforms to the highest compliance standards.

Wicko Design continues to work closely with Kid-A. We have responsibility for all aspects of get go fone’s web presence, including editing and uploading new content, adding features and functionality, ongoing updates and maintenance – in addition to hosting the website on a dedicated server and regularly backing up data.

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Visit the get go fone mobile accessories website

Read our case study to find out what Kid-A said about the website we created for get go fone

Ecommerce webstore

Hit Desires is an online webstore for adult sexy lingerie and costumes in the UK.

Wicko Design created the overall look and feel of the webstore to appeal to an adult audience, with a straightforward layout and navigation to maximise the use of imagery that clearly showcases the products.

We also developed the site to incorporate a back-end content management system so that products and prices could be quickly and easily updated, an intelligent search facility, shopping cart, secure log-in and payment functions, a comments area for people to leave reviews about products as well as links to twitter and facebook pages.

Lady Sew and Sew Warehouseand Sewing Centre, fabric and haberdashery online webstore.

Lady Sew and Sew have a proven business selling fabric and haberdashery for the last 20 years. They already had an existing site on a Cre-Loaded system that they required assistance with to update and add more features.

Wick Design produces and manages the rotational banners on the home page ensuring they are kept up to date regularly. We also added Social networking icons and links, a new blogging section to add news to the site and SEO modules to help manage SEO data throughout the site.

Lady sew and sew also run regular course  and seminars which are also available to book online.
The site stocks over 4000 product lines with over 20,000 orders and users.

http://www.ladysewandsew.co.uk

Mystic Games website

Customer: Bart Bols
Company: Mystic Games
Industry: Retails and events for the cult gaming market

mysticgames.co.uk ecommerce website

Mystic Games are an established retail store base in Witney, Oxfordshire. They are passionate about gaming. They sell a range of games for the enthusiast from their shop such as Boardgames, Trading Card Games, Table Top Games and Role Playing Games. They stock popular brands such as Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, Magic the Gathering, Warhammer, Star Wars X-wing, Blood Bowl, Alien as well as all the support accessories such as Paints, Dices, Sleeve and model buildings.

Bart Bols - Owner of Mystic Games

Came to Wicko Design for expertise in building and maintaining a WooCommerce website for members.  
Converted the website from WiX to a manageable WordPress platform. Add Membership options with members only content areas as well as incorporating an Events area to promote fund-raising events.

About Mystic Games

Mystic Games are an established retail store base in Witney, Oxfordshire. They are passionate about gaming. They sell a range of games for the enthusiast from their shop such as Boardgames, Trading Card Games, Table Top Games and Role Playing Games. They stock popular brands such as Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, Magic the Gathering, Warhammer, Star Wars X-wing, Blood bowl, Alien as well as all the support accessories such as Paints, Dices, Sleeve and model buildings.

Moving existing site to a more flexible platform
With their initial site built on Shopify, which Mystic Games found difficult to adapt and offer all the features they wanted. Wicko Design moved the site to a WordPress platform with WooCommerce commerce system with built in events management.

Event calendar
The events calendar enabled Mystic Games to offer regular games events held throughout each week. Easily adding new dates with ticket and subscription options. These have been incredibly popular on the site.

Popular bands
With many popular brands available on the site the user is able to view all products by brand. By generating individual brand pages there were able to create additional landing pages within the site to attract search engines.

Filters and Search
Dynamic filtering options are available on all product category pages allowing the user to filter the results to find the products they are looking for. A large search field in the header enables the user to search for with predictive search results as the user enters their query. A product of initial search results displays the product image, title and price with an option to view all search results on a separate page.

Google Merchant Center
All product were published to Google Merchant Center making them visible within the Google Shopping search option generating additional linking traffic back to the website. Bu incorporating with AdWords they were able to ensure their Shopping Shopping ads appears at the top of search results leading to greater traffic and sales.

SEO and Analytics
Making the site search engine friendly by adding meta details, schema and keywords to pages and products. Connecting with Google Analytics, Search Console and Merchant Centre to help websites process and acquisitions.

Ongoing support and training
Continued support is offered with a website maintenance program to ensure the site is always kept up to date, backed up and secure. Training and advice give for members with admin and editorial access to update and add new pages, products and events.

Increase in traffic and sales
Since the website has gone live the site has continued to gain awareness with increase traffic and sales.  

Experienced e-commerce website development
If you would like help and support to build and your e-commerce website for your business. E-commerce website maintenance and drive more traffic and sale then get in contact with Wicko Design to arrange a meeting to discuss your requirements.

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If you have a retail or wholesale business and want to sell online then you should consider how your website can help you.

What kind of businesses spring to mind when you think about online sales? It will most likely be business to consumer retailers, using the internet to sell their products directly to customers. Certainly, most retailers will have an e-shop, using it either to sell exclusively online or perhaps to complement a physical store.

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