It’s a mobile future – make sure you’re ready for it!

It’s a mobile future – make sure you’re ready for it!

What is called the post-PC era is rapidly gaining pace according to a raft of recent statistics. For those of you baffled by this term, the post-PC era is defined as the trend of declining PC sales in favour of mobile devices such as Smartphones and tablets. You might think such an event is something for the future but actually (according to VC firm KBPC) global PC shipments were overtaken by…… Continue reading

Product Testing for Samsung

Product Testing for Samsung

Our friends over at Cheil.com recently asked if we’d spend some time testing and reviewing their range of Windows 8 smartphones. As I was the wrong demographic (blame Cupertino) the task fell to Miles who (still suffering from a cold) was whisked off to a very bleak Richmond Park for an interview and photo shoot. The full article can be viewed in Samsung’s online magazine. … Continue reading

Superyacht Anyone?

Superyacht Anyone?

If you know any Oligarchs or just want to see how the other half live you might want to point them over to our new site www.marinelightcorp.com. The company is a division of The Lightcorp and specialises in designing and producing lighting for Superyachts. To show the work at it’s best we’ve incorporated full screen images and browser detection so you only get the image size you need. The product section links directly into The Light Corporations…… Continue reading

Good Earth Coming Soon

Good Earth Coming Soon

Looking forward to launching our latest Mystery project a rebuild for London based Chinese restaurant and take-away chain Good Earth. The sites due to launch next week but until then we’ve got a fancy holding page where you can order from. … Continue reading

Revealed! the top 300 companies using social media

Revealed! the top 300 companies using social media

Internetretailer.com have released a ground breaking study into the figures behind the use of Social Media by US companies. A key metric followed by Internet Retailer was the percentage of web site traffic retailers receive from social networks, measuring how effective the merchants are at using social media and social commerce. The leaders on the list include Petflow.com at number one, followed Fab.com and Coastal Contacts in third. Of the three,…… Continue reading

How are you feeding your E-commerce store?

How are you feeding your E-commerce store?

Feeds are not just for news; you can certainly boost your e-commerce hits and hopefully, your sales but providing feeds to the correct engines. You are probably aware of Google offering products to buy whilst you are searching a product. The shopping results area, launched as froogle, is often used as a fast route to an e-commerce purchase. Google uses submitted Product feeds for the Google Shopping area and, for the moment,…… Continue reading

Chinese Language Update for Cutler & Gross site and blog

Chinese Language Update for Cutler & Gross site and blog

We’ve just made the Cutler site multilingual and have worked with Applied Language to put a Chinese language version on the site live. We’ve updated out bespoke multilingual module so that new languages can be rolled out from the client side. For the blog we have utilised WordPress native multi-site capabilities which allow different content and contributors to share the same themes. Triggers have been setup so that translators are updated whenever…… Continue reading

A beautiful looking new site for W Athletic

A beautiful looking new site for W Athletic

Admittedly the content helps this site look superb but we are equally thrilled with the clean design and the responsive framework. W Athletic are Europe’s Top Sports & Lifestyle Agency and have particular eye for style and detail. The finished site includes:- Responsive templates from large 27″ screens to iPads Ecommerce using our bespoke cart Automatic image optimisation on upload Automatic PDF generation of Model’s Profiles Simple administration system for both Models and Client Save and Share…… Continue reading

New e-commerce site for Curious Duke

New e-commerce site for Curious Duke

We’re proud to announce the launch of our new site for the Curious Duke Gallery. The site is built using our own hand coded e-commerce framework and utilises responsive layouts on the front end. The gallery features som great new artists including Nathan Bowen who was recently featured on The Apprentice and is a great place to buy original art and limited edition prints online.     … Continue reading

HTML5 evolution for our latest site for Sarah Kaye Agency

HTML5 evolution for our latest site for Sarah Kaye Agency

We’ve worked with Photographer and Stylist Agency Sarah Kaye  since 2003 and the latest site represents our 3rd major update in almost 10 years. Our aim from the beginning has always been to allow advertising agencies and art directors an easy route to browsing either a specific photographers portfolio or browsing a particular type of photography, homes and interiors for example. Over the years we’ve adapted the site in line with the prevailing webscape switching from Flash based slideshows…… Continue reading

it’s FAB

it’s FAB

Is it all in the Design – how was your 1st year of trading? Fab has switched from a social network for gay men to the online destination for 4.5 million design fanatics. In just 11 months, they’ve sold over 1 million products — 2.6 per minute. The design is first class, the buyers on trend (sic) and the offers limited.  It goes to prove that your basics should be correct…… Continue reading

Kicking off the month with a new site for Xen-do

Kicking off the month with a new site for Xen-do

Mystery have been working with Xen-do for a while now developing their brand identity and helping re-postion Martial Arts. The client wanted to get away from cage fighting and more in touch with the art form and as a way of keeping fit. Our new site helps move this on and allows visitors to find the clubs, view the schedules and learn a little more before hopefully singing up for a free…… Continue reading

New WordPress site for Blackjack Promotions

New WordPress site for Blackjack Promotions

Blackjack are based in offices just round the corner from us and we closely with them on both their own and clients sites. Over the years we’ve developed inventory control systems for L’Oreal, promotional support for Kraft foods and analytics systems for monitoring immigration queues. Our latest project has been a rebuild of their own site and for this WordPress was chosen primarily to enable staff to update the site while…… Continue reading

E-commerce site for Watt Works

E-commerce site for Watt Works

A few years back we helped Watt Works develop their corporate identity with a new logo and WordPress site that allowed them to publicise their courses and training sessions. This week we’ve launched an updated web site that now includes full e-commerce using Jigoshop. We’ve previously used Jigoshop on the Renaissance web site and it’s pretty neat system which allows for conventional delivered sales as well as digital downloads and virtual…… Continue reading

Bespoke E-commerce for Cutler and Gross

Bespoke E-commerce for Cutler and Gross

We’ve just built a brand new site for Cutler & Gross replacing a Flash and separate e-commerce site we’ve helped them with for them for the past few years. The new site has been built from the ground up and brings both sites under one domain providing a showcase for current collections, collaborations and blog areas. The online store supports filtering, 360 views of products and lazy load which means that on the viewable images are requested from the server delivering fast load times. More…… Continue reading

One Little Indian

One Little Indian

We recently launched another Magento website for music label One Little Indian, which has since been added to the Magento Showcase. One Little Indian is an independent record label based in London. We imported their entire catalogue and assigned them Magento product types. This included Simple, Grouped, Configurable and Downloadable products. … Continue reading

4 Performance Car WordPress Site

4 Performance Car WordPress Site

Latest in our series of specialist motor insurance sites is 4 Performance Cars. Another SEO tuned WordPress site lots of editable menus and tools to help our client update the blog and all pages. This site was turned around in 3 working days from brief, through design to launch. … Continue reading