Design Musings

An existing client asked us to turn their simple five page website with gallery into an e-commerce shop. Stargazey, a gift company with two shops in West Cornwall, initially only wanted a basic presence online, allowing potential customers to have a taster and a point of reference. More recently, though, they wanted to expand their shops online as well. The client wanted to keep the same style as the design we had originally created for them, as this seaside feel was very suited to the homely gifts they specialise in. Our challenge was to expand the site to focus on visitors being able to buy those gifts, but not to compromise the original design. I created new artwork keeping within the style, adding a quick link button to the shop, updating the fading image animation and adding a shopping cart as well as an editable section to the home page for the client to keep repeat visitors up to date. The shop itself has six categories in a tool bar which we added to the left hand si...