5 Practical Tips for Software Design

By now, you’ve experienced the wonder of web-based software. Virtually everyone in the modern world uses it when they get online. A few examples include online banking, maps, web-based email, photo-sharing sites and Facebook. Web-based software does just about anything you can imagine with data. For the most part, well-designed software doesn’t make you aware […]

Real Estate Websites

The Beauty of Uniqueness In a world of data overload, real estate is an industry that has one of the highest rates of data exposure to its clients. That can be good or bad, depending on your perspective. A Realtor’s website typically relies on the same data as all of the other real estate websites. […]

ReturnLoop E-commerce

As people’s belongings continue to become smaller and smaller – and more and more important – ReturnLoop stepped up to provide a simple way to retrieve your lost stuff: serial numbered labels that people purchase and adhere to their belongings. For Mike Starr, Founder of ReturnLoop, we set up an e-commerce solution using CRELoaded, an […]

3 Steps to Choosing an E-Commerce Solution

In the past several months, we had the opportunity to work with four different e-commerce shopping cart packages. We compared ZenCart, CRELoaded, OpenCart and Magento. All carts are open source, meaning that the code is completely editable by professionals. CRELoaded is supported by a single company whereas the other three are supported by a community […]

Sang & Serena E-commerce Site

Sang and Serena is a high-end ecolux furniture manufacturer. For their e-commerce project, we started with OpenCart as a base. With a combination of built-in features, extensions and custom programming, we were able to match their workflow needs to a tee, while making their online storefront imminently more attractive. All stores are different when it […]

Indoor Biotechnologies Website

We overhauled and launched inbio.com, an educational and e-commerce, CMS website for Indoor Biotechnologies in Charlottesville. I wrote earlier about our approach to the package design we created for their Ventia product. Just as packages require design expertise (layout, colors, visual hierarchy) and technical expertise (printing, production, folding, etc), websites require similar attention to user […]