FCS Web Design blog

New Zen Cart site for Hearrings.co.uk

Nick - FCS Websites — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:24:53 +0000

New Zen Cart ecommerce website for Hearrings.co.uk

Here we have a new Zen Cart ecommerce website for audiologist Kate Cross and her new “Hearrings” brand. Hearrings are designer jewellery made to fit onto hearing aids to accessorise them.

The new site uses a completely bespoke template with Lightbox style product images, automatic watermarking and our custom Paramita admin side theme. The site also runs on our eco-friendly green web hosting.

Equestrian web design from horsey-sites.co.uk

Nick - FCS Websites — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 10:00:54 +0000

Equestrian web design from horsey-sites.co.uk

We’re very excited to announce our new brand offering equestrian web design in Nottingham and beyond – horsey-sites.co.uk

With our equestrian web design you get an easy to update website running on our green web hosting, with your logo and colour scheme added so it matches your business. The site is updateable from your mobile phone so you can blog about your horsey business while you’re out and about or competing!

Your site can also be linked up to Twitter and Facebook so every time you update your equestrian website, your Twitter and Facebook pages are automatically updated for you, saving you time and effort.

Check out the new site, our blog and the portfolio at http://www.horsey-sites.co.uk/

Zen Cart ecommerce site for Beth Strutt Jewellery

Nick - FCS Websites — Wed, 18 May 2011 10:31:20 +0000

Launched this week is a new Zen Cart ecommerce website for Beth Strutt Jewellery, a small business near Nottingham. We completely redid the Zen Cart templates to give Beth Strutt a bespoke design, integrating lightbox and slick popup effects. The online shop also features guest checkout so that people don’t need to sign up for an account to purchase jewellery from the shop.

The site is powered by our green web hosting which is wind powered and environmentally friendly.

Check out the range of silver jewellery, charm bracelets and pearl jewellery at BethStrutt.co.uk

New website for Brilliant Bunting, Nottingham

Nick - FCS Websites — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:45:10 +0000

We just launched this wonderful new bunting ecommerce site for Nottingham based textile company, Delicious. It features hand drawn graphics and font, with a drag and drop shopping cart that helps you build up your bunting flags to say whatever you want!

We started off with Drag and Drop cart, then customised it heavily to suit the bunting shop. It’s connected to Paypal and has an easy to use control panel so Delicious can process their bunting orders. It also runs on our green web hosting server, powered by wind turbines.

Benchmark Graphic Design Nottingham

Nick - FCS Websites — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:17:32 +0000

Another new Textpattern based website launched today for Benchmark Graphic Design Nottingham. Caroline designed the clean, minimal layout and we transformed it into a content managed website. Textpattern 4.3 has just come out and allowed us to use a fantastic new control panel theme that makes updating the site even easier!

Benchmark design also runs on our green web hosting server, completely powered by renewable energy. As well as working with small businesses to produce their business websites, we also work with other graphic design and web design companies in Nottingham. If you are a designer looking to offer web design to your clients, drop us a line at info@fcswebsites.co.uk and we can have a chat.

Ken Ware Engineers Newark

Nick - FCS Websites — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:11:50 +0000

We’ve been extremely busy for the last few months, January/February is often a quiet time but this year it’s been busier than ever! Because of this, we have lots of new sites to show you, including Ken Ware engineers Newark. We replaced the old, static HTML site with a new version running on the Textpattern content management system.

Our brief was “make it minimal” – a perfect match as we reckon less is often more when it comes to the design of web pages. Another aspect of this project was getting the business on Twitter and Facebook, branding their pages up to match their company image and linking the news section of the new website to automatically update their social networks. Ken Ware have already been posting to their Facebook page – introducing their amphibious welding squad!

Postcode maps for business intelligence

Nick - FCS Websites — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 14:14:22 +0000

A new Zen Cart site selling UK postcode maps from Talking With Maps – UK postcode maps for business strategy and intelligence. Postcode region, district and UK wide. The site runs on our green web hosting and uses our shiny new templates and admin theme for Zen Cart, making it easier to use for customers and also the site owner. Logo design by Nottingham graphic designer Rob Horseman.

Serenitie organic skincare Nottingham

Nick - FCS Websites — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 14:06:03 +0000

We recently built a new Zen Cart ecommerce website for Serenitie – running our massively improved templates & admin theme and hosted on our green web hosting.

Shop for organic skincare products, designer handbags from Lollipop Paris, cosmetics from Almay, Benefit, Calvin Klein, Clarins, L’oreal, Lancome, Max Factor, Revlon, Rimmel, Yves St Laurent, organic skincare from Paul Penders, Organix and Caribbean Blue, jewellery, home decor, accessories and gifts such as Bench, Casio, Charles Conrad, Claude Valentini, Ed Hardy, J Springs and Krug Baumen watches for ladies and gents.

Ullswater self-catering accommodation

Nick - FCS Websites — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 14:00:03 +0000

Another new site for Distant Horizons, this one shows off their Lake District self catering accommodation. The site is built using Expression Engine with the Multiple Site Manager plugin which means Distant Horizons can reuse their growing library of website content that has been uploaded as part of their main website and the 3 Challenges site.

The site uses a stunning background image of Ullswater, with overlapping textured panels to break the boxiness that websites can end up with. Having stayed in the Ullswater Lodge I can heartily recommend it – it is very cosy, very quiet and the lodge is located in a beautiful part of the Lake District.

Learn to Drive – Nottingham Driving Lessons

Nick - FCS Websites — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 13:54:59 +0000

A new site for a new business offering driving lessons in Nottingham and the surrounding areas. Gavin has some great testimonials and images of his students learning to drive, so we gathered everything together and made a fresh, modern looking site to advertise his driving lessons in Nottingham. Most driving instructor sites are home made bodge jobs so this one stands out a mile!

The site runs on our green web hosting and uses the open source content management system Textpattern.