michaelbain has successfully completed a website and e-commerce project for delifresh.

The striking design of the project was conceived and implemented by Rebellious (aka Anja).

The delifresh online shop displays all their products, allows the visitor to build a basket of products to buy and allows the visitor to check out. Site visitors do not need to be logged in to shop (but if they do register their details are remembered on future purchases) and can choose to pay later by EFT or in real-time with a credit card.

Built on the popular WordPress platform and also utilising the VCS payment module for WP e-Commerce plugin,  the site owner can manage all aspects of the e-commerce solution through an admin interface.

The site also sends invoices to buyers on confirmation of payment, purchase orders to each supplier involved in the basket of goods and a waybill to the courier. The whole process is automated.

Meet Wendy and Stefan:  http://www.delifresh.co.za/about/

Why don’t you pop in and have a look at all the delectable deli products.

Contact michaelbain for your e-commerce requirements

michaelbain has successfully developed and deployed a photo-blogging website for the freelance photographer, Jessie Slabbert.

Jessie needed a photo-blogging and journaling platform to use as a showcase for her freelance photography website, SnappedPhotos – and on a tight budget too!

She needed social media integration and reader interactivity as well as an easy way to manage and update her own content: WordPress theming and customisation to the rescue!

The design called for a smart, but not too busy approach so that the website itself does not detract from the real art – her photographs – but still provide a modern, relaxed, yet professional showcase for her work.

In Jessie’s words:

I am all about freelance photography.
SnappedPhotos is all about freelance photography.

Contact michaelbain so that we may discuss your particular needs and tailor-make a solution for you.

michaelbain has successfully delivered a complete website solution for Tartan Manor.

The website features the following functionality and components, all neatly tied together:

• The tried and tested WordPress CMS with which the administrator can manage their own content
• A custom design with an easily manageable image slider
• Featured content area on the homepage
• Social media integration
• News items and blogging
• Visitor commenting and interaction
• An events calender
• Image galleries

Tarton Manor is a fun and dynamic new stable yard, just 4km from Greenhills, Randfontein, a stone’s throw from Maple Ridge and 20mins away from Featherbrooke.

Visit the Tarton Manor site for more information and contact michaelbain to discuss your needs for your website project.

michaelbain has successfully completed a website project for www.hajime.co.za.

Hajime needed:

• The WordPress content management system installed
• A custom theme designed and developed
• Their content transferred
• Their photo and video galleries set up
• Their Facebook page integrated with the website

michaelbain obliged with all of the above within a very short time period and within an extremely affordable budget.

Contact michaelbain for your website, content management and web development needs.

michaelbain has successfully completed a small website project for www.heatherdale.co.za.

Heatherdale Guest House needed a new look and feel, an easy to use content management & publishing platform and some facebook integration.

michaelbain met these requirements by creating and implementing a custom WordPress theme for them.

“Heatherdale Guest House  is an accredited member of the National Accommodation Association of South Africa. We have been awarded four stars by the Tourism Grading Council of South Africa. We have 2 Executive suites, 7 luxury rooms and 2 self catering units plus 2 conference / function venues, catering for up to 75 delegates or up to 15 delegates. Facilities include U-shaped, classroom, boardroom and cinema style seating plus executive facilities such as plasma screens, data projectors and wireless internet connections. Our venue allows for outdoor team building activities”.

For more about Heatherdale Guest House, visit www.heatherdale.co.za.

michaelbain in conjunction with pixelmagic is proud to launch the DarkCarnival Online Store.

The store is part of phase 2 of the www.darkcarnival.co.za project.

We have provided DarkCarnival with a full-on interactive shopping experience for their customers and a acomplete self-managed store management system for the website administrators to manage the store with.

The project was developed by michaelbain using PHP, MySQL and the stable and secure WordPress platform with custom developed plug-ins, widgets and theme functions.

Theme design and implementation by pixelmagic.

Secure credit card transactions by Virtual Card Services.

The user shopping experience features include:

• Browse products, with different listing views
• Search product
• Browse products by categories
• Share to facebook and other social media
• Featured slider
• Shopping cart
• Checkout as guest
• Registation and checkout to remember details for future purchases
• Product detail pages
• Product detail image zoom
• Related product to the one being viewed
• Discount coupons
• 2 payment methods: Online by credit card or offline by EFT

The shop administration features include:

• Product management
• Order management
• Shipping cost management
• Payment method management
• VAT calculation and management: caters for VATable and non-VATable products
• Coupon management
• Multiple product image management
• Variation management (weight, colour, size etc. with different prices for each variation)
• Blogging management for writing articles about products

“Dark Carnival Retail CC is a South African company committed to providing its customers access to the latest Comic Books, Graphic Novels, Collectables and related merchandise from around the world.

We, at Dark Carnival, aim to provide our customers the most recent and up to date information and products relating to the Comic World through our easy to use website. We also offer various delivery options at very affordable rates to help you receive your products in the shortest space of time.”

For more on DarkCarnival, visit http://www.darkcarnival.co.za

For your website and online store requirements, contact michaelbain

michaelbain (in conjuction with pixelmagic) is happy to present another successfully completed web project.

Rapidwave had very specific style, landing page, user interaction, navigation and content requirements with regards to their web presence and as such michaelbain developed and delivered the following for Rapidwave:

• pixelmagic effectively translated Rapidwave’s corporate identity into a design that was implemented as a WordPress template.
• The WordPress content management system was installed and extensively modified (by way of a custom template and custom plugins) to meet their needs.
• A custom landing / home page was developed (thanks pixelmagic for the design) with JavaScript and DHTML functionality that simply, but effectively gives the user of the site an overview and a jump-off point.
• A custom navigation system (incorporating a navigation bar listing sub sections of the currently viewed page, block-image navigation with remembered history and breadcrumbs) was developed. These were developed and implemented as custom WordPress plugins.
• A custom contact form was developed as a WordPress plugin.
• The site frames in their existing offering where their clients can log into a back-end management system.
• The client can manage their own content without any special skills or tools, online, in real-time.
• All of this was tied together effectively to form a neat and usable user experience.

Thanks to Adi for the excellent copy.

From the Rapidwave site:

“We are a privately owned broadband infrastructure company providing data and wholesale Internet services to small, medium and JSE listed enterprises

Rapidwave is powered by a dedicated staff with a passion for excellence and success. In a short space of time we’ve established ourselves as the network and infrastructure providers of choice.”

Please vistit www.rapidwave.co.za for more information.