DesignbyStevie

October gave me the pleasure of completing the Extract Coffee Roasters’ website. Based on a cracking design by Superfantastic, this site gave me another opportunity to stretch my HTML5/CSS3 legs, but more importantly to learn how to use the excellent Big Cartel e-commerce platform to create the consumer shop part of the site.

I’ve used a few different e-commerce platforms and plugins for WordPress but it goes without saying that, so far, Big Cartel’s is the easiest to use and implement. Utilising a simple HTML templating language (and you can create your own template from scratch, even using HTML5) the possibilities are pretty much endless, especially as you can host images and Javascript on your own domain, very useful if you want the shop to look and function similarly to your main site. Only problem I came across was that Selectivizr won’t work on Big Cartel because of the cross domain issue, so you have to be a bit clever with your use of CSS3 pseudo selectors and getting them to work in IE. Overall though, great platform at very reasonable prices.

So if you’re a coffee-lover, and you want to try some of the best artisan coffee out there, I’d highly recommend you check out Extract Coffee Roasters, I don’t think you’ll be disappointed!

Proud to announce that the Keene PA site I’ve built for Superfantastic is now live!

The Winchester Cathedral website that I helped to build with Superfantastic is now live!

Superfantastic are a world-class team of designers and marketing experts that I’ve had the pleasure of working with on many of the projects featured on this site. One of them was their own website, which I helped to build and launch in December 2010. And my efforts scored me an iPad as thanks, how lovely is that!

Lawfully Chic is a fashion, art and travel blog run by Mishcon de Reya. I designed and built the site for Well Studio, the agency that looks after Mishon’s portfolio of websites.