Oakwood Recruitment are a new London based recruitment agency specialising in the financial sector. They asked us to develop them a brand that fitted solidly within the financial sector, whilst working with the companies modern outlook.

SAL Electrical have been clients of ours for several years, so it was an obvious move for them to commission us to build their new website. They wanted full CMS control of the site without it costing the earth, so the logical solution was to relaunch them on the WordPress platform.

Form more information on Crossroads Design can help to brand your new venture or redevelop your current web presence, please contact one of the team on 01789 205 394.

We are pleased to annouce the launch of

Annamarie approached us in January to help get her new venture of the ground with a new brand identity, business cards, advertising and website.

Knife & Fork provide outside catering for dinner parties and lunches in and around Stratford-upon-Avon & Evesham as well as home made ready meals.

Having reported a strong first Christmas trading period, they have come out of the blocks running in 2011 with some strong sales figures, a doubling of the stock offered on the website, including the ever popular Keep Calm & Carry On and the new The Thoughtful Gardener ranges.

Richard Peachey, Managing Director of Not The Usual, said “we are really pleased with our current growth and are looking forward to the rest of 2011.”

To find out how we can help your business grow, please give one of team a call on 01789 205 394.

They took over the site from another publishing company before Pryority Publishing took it over. We moved the site over to the Pryority Publishing servers, brought the site upto date, and the clients advertising platform installed.

All of this was done with a couple of days to ensure the smooth transfer of the site.

If you would like to know more about how Crossroads Design can help to build your buisness, then please call one of the team on 01789 205 394.

Auto Therapy, an alloy wheel refurbishment company from Doncaster

The solution was to use the WordPress blogging platform to provide the content management platform for the site and automatically linking the system upto their Facebook & Twitter accounts enabling them to automatically send their blog posts to their Facebook & Twitter subscribers in addition to their normal posts.

The WordPress platform also enabled us to work very closely with Auto Therapy to search engine optimise their site for several different keywords.

To find out more about how Crossroads Design can help to grow your business online cost effectively and quickly, then please call one of the team on 01789 205 394.

BigCommerce, a leading provider of hosted shopping cart software, today announced the latest release of its software that enables small and mid-sized merchants to significantly increase their average order value using built-in tools designed to facilitate upselling and impulse buying.

“There are only a handful of metrics that can be measured and improved to increase the profitability of your e-commerce business, and average order value is one of the most critical. This new release includes features such as InstantAdd, our new suggestive cart upsell system and free shipping coupon codes, both of which can significantly increase the average order value for our merchants. Best of all, these new features can be configured in just a few clicks” said Mitchell Harper, co-founder and co-CEO of BigCommerce.
Today’s new release includes over 100 new features and improvements. Notable features include:

• Free shipping Coupon Codes – Merchants can now choose to offer free or discounted shipping when creating a coupon code. More than any other feature, free shipping coupons can increase both average order value and conversion rates.
• InstantAdd™ Suggestive Cart Upsell System – Instead of taking shoppers to their cart, InstantAdd pops up a window with the contents of their cart and focuses on upselling and cross selling related products before the shopper reaches the checkout process.
• Category Fly Out Menus – Displays categories and subcategories instantly in a fly out navigation menu, meaning fewer clicks to find the products shoppers are looking for.
• Limit Coupon Use by Location/Shipping Method – Use of coupons can be restricted based on the shoppers shipping location and/or shipping method, allowing complete control over coupon distribution, usage and termination for promotions.
• Free Shipping Eligibility Message – BigCommerce merchants can easily setup a discount rule which will entice customers to increase their average order value to qualify for free shipping. A message such as “Spend just $34 more to quality for free shipping!” can be customized and shown in various places during the shopping experience.
• Archive Orders – Instead of deleting orders, they are now archived and be restored with just one click if required.

“Our merchants work hard to promote their online stores and need to make sure their customers spend the maximum amount possible in every transaction. These powerful and innovative new features make it extremely easy for them to do just that” added Eddie Machaalani, co-founder and co-CEO of BigCommerce.

Impressively, all features in this release came directly from ideas and votes submitted by existing BigCommerce clients. “We focus on transparency and really champion the voice of our clients. They suggested and voted up the features in this release using our digg-like community voting system and the feedback so far has been amazing” added Harper.
Learn more about this release and read feedback from existing clients on the BigCommerce blog.

Easy to Use Shopping Cart Software
With packages starting at just $24.95 per month, BigCommerce gives tomorrow’s e-commerce leaders an integrated set of advanced capabilities that allow them to quickly and affordably grow their business online.

“The old days of paying more for enterprise features are dead. The Internet, especially SaaS, has leveled the playing field and we want all BigCommerce merchants to have access to enterprise-level features that make them more successful, regardless of their industry, budget or experience” added Machaalani.

To find out how Crossroads Design can help you get your e-commerce business really moving with BigCommerce, then please call one of the team on 01789 205 394

After working with Pryority Publishing

They chose CRD for our ability to provide the complete one stop solution, with us initially creating some simple holding pages for both Pryority Publishing and My Cruise Guide as well as looking after the firm’s web and email hosting.

MyCruise Guide is the UK’s only bi-monthly cruise magazine dedicated solely to UK passengers.

Not The Usual challenged CRD to build a cost effective, expandable website with full e-commerce capabilities. They also wanted to start their business using PayPal with a view to moving to a more permanent payment service provider at a later date. That combined with BigCommerce’s built in Facebook & email marketing intergration, made it the ideal choice.

To find out how Crossroads Design can help get you ebusiness online, give on of the team a call on 01789 205 394.

We are hoping to bring you the very best Ski & Snowboard News and Ski & Snowboard Reviews from around the globe along with some features of the trips that we have done and researched.

BigCommerce 6 have this week announced that they are upgrading existing customers stores to version 6 of their software.

This is an exciting new upgrade for all users of the SaaS e-commerce platform, but the upgrades to need to be done with care as your templates may well need improvements after the upgrade.

BigCommerce 6 is a very worthwhile upgrade with eBay, MailChimp and price comparison site integration.

If you would like help with your stores upgrade, then please do call one of the team on 01789 205 394.