International Fleeces

We love alpacas. Spinners also love alpacas for their fine fibre. Through Twitter our shared interests meant we knew many spinners and fibre workers. So we were excited to receive an email asking if we could create a brand identity and build an ecommerce store to sell rare fibres and spinning accessories.  We knew the target audience and got to work with some great fleecy photography. From the beginning it felt like a good project and it turned into a great one.

The result: www.internationalfleeces.com.  It’s a Wordpress site with a customised WP e-Commerce plugin powering much of the functionality. We delved deeper into WP e-Commerce than Gandalf did in Moria so we could smooth out some of its rougher edges and present a refined customer experience. It’s also smart: for the client this approach means they can use the familiar Wordpress interface to update content and products across the site. It is all client-editable; a truly empowering approach.

The client’s response? “I love you”. It doesn’t get better than that.

Holodeck

“Create a feeling of a world within a world.” Interesting brief! The client was a fan of a hand-drawn, illustrated style, so we used this as a foundation to create a site that uses illustrated characters and patterns to give the user a feeling of being in another world. Depending on screen resolution and platform used you might see design elements others would not, making this a design that rewards exploration using different devices.

Work in progress

WaterAid USA

Wateraid helps people in poorer countries by providing access to clean water. The charity already had a strong global web presence, however, the Wateraid USA section of the site required a re-design to appeal to an American audience.

This design was one of two initial concepts presented (and although it wasn’t the one chosen by the client, we thought we’d show you it as it’s still one of our favourites!)

*designed on behalf of dotAgency

Go bananas for Fairtrade

This year Fairtrade invited everyone to ‘Go Bananas for Fairtrade’. This involved signing up to the Go Bananas microsite and then eating your very own Fairtrade banana on the 6th March. The aim of this site was to make people more aware of the work that Fairtrade does by breaking the world record for Fairtrade bananas eaten in one day.

To prove that you had taken part in this historic event you could also post a photo of yourself, accompanied by your banana, on to the site for all to see.

This design was one of the first concepts created for the Go Bananas microsite and was designed on behalf of dotAgency.

Wine Tours By Bike

In most cases, wine plus bicycles doesn’t equal fun. However, gliding down empty roads between olive and wine plantations in the beautiful Marlborough region of New Zealand with pannier bags full of stunning wine is the exception to the rule. When the Web Design People founders went on a wine tour by bike day in the region they spotted a business in need of some help. Our overhauled website resulted in a major increase in bookings and enquires and is now the most important booking and awareness-raising channel, in part due to strong SEO performance.

Built using the Wordpress publishing platform, the client is responsible for site updates.