3D miniatures online shop web site

Drunken Guard Logo and Web Site Design

Supporting young local start up business’ is at the heart of COG media’s ethos. So when someone very close to us needed a brand and online shop web site for their 3D Printing company we were delighted to get involved. 

3D miniatures online

Having known Fionnbharr from The Drunken Guard since he was a young lad we didn’t much in the way of a “getting to know you” meeting. This meant the logo and branding were in the bag very quickly. On the the eCommerce website. Wanting to keep the site clean but still appealing to the target audience a cartoon look was the route we went down. With pretty much all the imagery on the site coming from the various licences The Drunken Guard a few elements and styles were created ready for hand over.

Running a online shop

With server space and load times more and more important now, when the Woocommerce website was ready Fionnbharr came in for one on one training on good practise on how to add products and images. As all his 3D printed models are available in a number of sizes and delivery styles each variable product needed to be created with a few rules in mind, Very soon Fionnbharr was populating the site like a pro. 

Continuing Website Support

With some of our own projects in mind we continue to help and support The Drunken Guard to add new suppliers tweaks to the site… Still cant get him to blog, but you cant win everything. 

Need brand and website update?

COG media can help you get your company web site designed and start selling to the world. Contact our web design team today and get our offer on website hosting! 


    Mobility Brand and Website update

    Mobility Brand and Website update

    After the even if we say so ourselves “sterling job” we did for sister company BATHlifts.net the guys at Relax Mobility tasked us with their brand and website update. Drawing on the look and theme from the Bathlifts website the user expectance was a simple process. So it was on to the logo and colour scheme to set the brand rules for the website update.

    Keeping the same font across the both brands with a colour change for the Relax Mobility logo we added an avatar this time which was incorporated into the text of the logo. With recline a major part of all the products a reclined chair element became the X of relax. The client was unsure at first but was the logo was dropped in on the website header and marking materials the penny dropped and the logo was put to bed.

    Relax Mobility Logo

    When’s a shop not a shop

    Because of the nature of the products sold by Relax Mobility customers would require a home visit from one of their sales team to run thru the options, designs and fabrics available for both beds and chairs. With demo units and fabric books even Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen would be proud of customers can pick some funky colour schemes and bespoke finishes so their mobility furniture doesn’t have to have that care home look, perfect for the younger customer. To all the website to still function as a eCommerce site we had all the forward facing products listed as portfolios instead of products. This would allow the customers to read up and view all the benefits of the rise and recline products and then using the call to actions book and in home free visit. 

    Once a bed or chair had been selected the sales team can log into the site to gain access to the eCommerce part of the site. With all the variations and various discount structures all at the click of a dropdown and selection from a plethora of options and upgrades and accessories. A payment gateway allows for deposits and payments in full to be and with order forms and VAT handovers all being printed out onsite. Siting down with Mark to get an understand for the sales journey for both the client and sales person allowed us to work out the best and simplest route to market.

    Need brand and website update?

    COG media can help you get your company web site designed and start selling to the world. Contact our web design team today and get our offer on website hosting! 


      Website Design The devils in the detail

      online shop website design

      Website design old school

      In the world of website design one thing that will aid the development process is content and information… the two important things in website development is content, information and imagery… the three most important, you get the idea.

      Steamed Studio’s online store will be selling steam bent wooden mirrors, lightshades and lamps initially with a number of new products already in development. Running along side the online shop an informative blog with information not only about products and wealth of articles on the wood they use, the environmental impact of deforestation and the history of wood in the world of design.

      It was a pleasure when our latest client came to us arm to the hilt with pds’s, logos, word documents, a drobox full of images and months worth of blog post content. After an initial phone call and getting Gary from Steamed Studio confident with our design process and agreeing in on a time scale and budget. Our first meeting Gary was enlightening. In true craftsman style Gary had page after page of A0 paper with layouts, photo of image placement and menu styles. Before Gary had left the websites holding page was up and style for the ecommerce side of the sites had been confirmed. I wish more sites could be like this.

      Steamed Studio used a professional photographer to get product images in both a clean and lifestyle format. This is perfect for creating image galleries for customers to get a great idea of what the product looks like.

      So you want a ecommerce site designed

      COG media can help you get your company web site designed and start selling to the world. Contact our web design team today and get our offer on website hosting! 


        Web site update for Vanta Staffing

        Vanta Staffing Website Design

        Recruitment company Vanta Staffing after four years of trading were in the market for a web site update. With content being changed and amended internally and via external agencies the site had become disjointed. 

        With a second office being opened, new recruitment sectors being added and staffing updates the web site needed new fresh look. With a website development area in place we set about creating a new fresh look based on Vanta’s existing marketing materials. A new colour scheme had been introduced which gave us a great scope for jazzing up every pages look. Bold colourful imagery showcasing Vanta’s values, Commitment, Balance, Honesty, Development, Different and Fun  are all extremely important to the brand and we upheld those values in our approach to the look and feel of the webiste. 


        Need a website update?

        COG media can help you get your company web site designed and start selling to the world. Contact our web design team today and get our offer on website hosting! 


          Web site update we can solve it

          wecansolvit web site update

          When one of our clients came to us with an urgent need to rebrand and get a new web site update designed we jumped on the task. Requiring just a name change Savi Recruitments old logo element could be recycled for the new brand. Our good friends as Savi Recruitment were required to go thru a name change earlier this year… wanting to keep it “the same but different” we could re use the colour scheme and logo element that had already served the company well. Becoming SolvIt Recruitment a funky domain name was chosen…  www.wecansolvit.com is now the new home for Scott and his team. A short and quirky name will allow the new web site be rememberable. Keeping the new web site clean and simple its an easy task to find the job you’re looking for then get hold of the Solvit team.

          Need rebrand and website update?

          COG media can help you get your company web site designed and start selling to the world. Contact our web design team today and get our offer on website hosting! 


            Serious About FIFA website and brand development

            Serious About FIFA Website and Brand Development

            COG media and please to now be working with SAF (Serious About FIFA). SAF is an eSports Team and community for hardcore FIFA players and pros looking to have in depth discussions around gameplay, tactics, news, esports, and more.  Serious About FIFA is the worlds largest paid SIP Discord in the world for the past two years. Taking on their existing website which required a lot to improvement to say the least. Firstly we updated the existing site to perform and comply with Google and corrected the imagery to match Serious About FIFA’s demographic.

            Then we set about updating the website to our tried and tested platform. Moving away from the Visual Composer back end to the more flexibly Elementor. Lifting the existing wording and imagery the site was quickly taking shape. Updating all the existing product line photos with new clean imagery all compressed for page speed the new site was close to being ready to go live. Whilst we were working on the back end of Woo-commerce online eCommerce shop we realised that COG media could bring a lot more to the SAF brand as well as the site. Taking on our own back we have a couple of prototype new products produced sporting the new slogan we came up with “I PLAY THEREFORE I AM…” 

             

            Product Development

            Once we had the mocks ready we drop a quick message to SAF and they were round to go over the ideas we can come up with. Embracing the new branding with the addition of adding gamer tags to the certain products we started to expand the items in online shop. Chill E Sports Bottles, Snapback Caps and Beanies were the first of out new items to hit the store with the first orders coming in only 24hrs after they added. 

            Moving on from the initial products we set out adding the the SAF brand. To keep the costs down we turned to 3D renders and Photoshop to create and develop new ideas and expand on existing one item products.

            SAF Snapback Cap BLACK front
            SAF eSports Hoodie BLACK front
            SAF eSports Hoodie BLACK back
            SAF Chill E Sports Bottle 500ml
            SAF Chill E Sports Bottles
            SAF Mens Polo CYAN Logo Close Up

            Read all about it…

            Bringing a new way of blogging to Serious About FIFA… Put it up and keep it up! Blog posts were being removed after they had served their purpose. Blogs are an important part of search engine optimisation, with information and details based round your organisation. A suite of imagery was created for new team members, eSports news and all things FIFA. Keep the brand across the entire site is key.

            Serious About FIFA Mug Designs

            So you want a web site designed

            COG media can help you get your company web site designed and start promoting to the world. Contact our web design team today and get our offer on website hosting! 


              New Website Design for Norwich Design Company

              New Website Design for Norwich Design Company

              Time for a new website design

              Taking advantage of lockdown, not able to take my Grand Tour through Europe it was  new website design time for COG media. Firstly upgrading our WordPress Technology to include the same editor we’ve been using for our clients over the last year. Secondly to take advantage of all the new projects we’ve been working on. New services came online as well adding marketing to our products.

              Website Design First steps…

              Backup all existing content Drawing on the existing website we backed up all the blogs and pages ready to drop into the new framework. When we revamp existing WordPress websites doing this backup will keep the site structure. This is always good practise to keep Google and other search engines happy. Now we had the old site ready to start designing the new look.  

              Fresh New Website Look

              Go big or go home… Moving away from the boxed look of the old COG media website we wanted to use the full screen available where possible. Keeping the site responsive on all platforms templates where created for full width image based headers. Our latest development platform allows us to quickly add control on how the page will look on desktops, tablets and mobile devices. Website performance is very important part of page design. Posts like the one you’re reading now got a full width feature image which greets you when you get to the post.  

              New Marketing Services

              Expanding our product offerings With our new website comes new services. Ed Colman joins COG media as a marketing consultant. This now means we can offer your business copy writing, email marketing, Public Relations and Communications. Along with a fresh approach to Social Media Promotion. So if you just starting out in business COG media can support your from your initial idea to launch day.  

              Website Search Engine Optimisation

              Getting our website design pages found

              Keeping up with all the new innovations with SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) we reviewed all our pages and blog posts. Ensuring that the likes of Google and Bing could index our website. Adding to our blog posts with cleaning and informative content tells the world what your business is all about. So we have been back the the COG media vaults posts articles on past projects. So if you’re only just getting a business website blogs and posts can be back dated to keep a timeline of past work.

              So you want a web site designed

              COG media can help you get your company web site designed and start promoting to the world. Contact our web design team today and get our offer on website hosting!