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Branded3 has developed an all-new e-commerce website for growing make-up brand, Illamasqua.
Focusing on the user-journey and incorporating Illamasqua’s strong imagery and ground-breaking videos, the new site seeks to provide the customer with an unforgettable shopping experience.
The design and development experts at Branded3 have launched a fantastic newly-designed free reminder service for Interflora, focusing heavily on usability and user experience.
Dedicated to reminding users of upcoming birthdays, anniversaries and other special dates; myReminders will not only boost Interflora’s conversion rates, but offers customers a valuable service.
We recently did an upgrade for a small web app which went from the older ASP.NET Web Forms technology to the latest ASP.NET MVC 3 framework.
When we do redirects on new .NET websites, we tend to use the IIS URL Rewrite plugin, but because this site was not using the latest version of IIS we decided to make a simple redirection controller inside the application.
Picture credit: Apple Inc.
With Apple’s highly anticipated keynote last night concerning the release of its new iPhone model, it is arguable whether the technology giant pleased or disappointed the vast crowds watching with bated breath.
Announcing the iPhone 4S, a new iPod Nano and a new iPod Touch; the keynote was surprisingly lacking in an announcement of the iPhone 5. However, even with the absence of a new design the iPhone 4S is still crammed with useful features.
The keynote began with Apple’s usual highlight of how they’re dominating the music industry, the smartphone industry, and now the tablet industry.
Last night Microsoft finally revealed the Windows 8 operating system to the world. For business users this may not be the most exciting release ever, but for consumers and developers it’s very good news.
Here at Branded3, we love WordPress. It is a brilliantly easy-to-use CMS, based on industry standards making it easy to develop for. It’s also very powerful, going beyond the ‘blog’ moniker that made it famous originally.
WordPress is used to power a very large variety of websites, including sites for: eBay, Yahoo!, Ford, Sony, Samsung and Mozilla Firefox – to name only a few. Whilst these big brands aren’t necessarily running their main websites on the platform, they do entrust it to power microsites and blogs that support their site.
After walking you through adding CMS pages in my first post – Magento: First Class – I thought I’d walk you through importing attributes into Magento.
Recently, we’ve been working on a few Magento sites where the client already has an existing e-commerce site. Rather than making the client spend time setting up all the attributes that are required for the products, we can build an import script to easily import the attributes from the existing site.
Our .NET development team have worked with quite a few CMS platforms over the past years and it seems like a new one is released each month, but recently there seems to be a few that are stealing the limelight and offering that little bit more than the others.
In this article I’m going to take a look at some of the top CMS platforms we’re working with, and the pros and cons they all bring.
We’ve worked with Magento quite a bit in the past and created some top-notch websites for our clients. The developments we’ve done have mainly been new site builds, meaning we can start from a fresh install and give the admin backend straight to the client, and familiarise them with it really quickly.
Recently, we’ve been working with a couple of existing e-commerce sites that need to be migrated to Magento, so we’ve started putting together some scripts to automate importing categories, product information, attributes, options, cms page etc. I thought I’d put together a series of posts that go into a bit more detail about each of these scripts.
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) has been around since the dawn of time. Well, since 1999 when the W3C started work on it at least. I remember doing some at University and needing various plugins depending on which browser you wanted to render the end result in.
Due to the recent anticipation and uptake of HTML5 compliance in modern browsers (allowing for elements such as <canvas> – which allows developers to harness the power of vector graphics directly on web pages).
It’s interesting to look at how much we copy learn from nature, duplicate implement others work, and sometimes overlook and ignore fantastic findings. Whilst producing software, we come across the classic dilemma of how much and how long to design, create and test the functionalities.
The solution is found in a completely different world - the world of economics – in the principle of 80-20 by Italian economist Vilfrodo Pareto.
In the last six months we’ve noticed a considerable increase in demand for our Social Media campaigns, this of course includes Facebook and Twitter, but also requires integration with blogs, news feeds and websites in general, and this is where I have to tell people: “What you need is a digital strategy.”
Developing digital strategies is what our consultancy service is all about, it’s looking further than just your website or updating your Twitter feed, and looking as well at all of the digital channels which you want to engage with your audience, and most of all ensuring that there is consistency within your brand message.