HomeStore.ie

HomeStore

Website: www.homestore.ie

Project: Homestore.ie is a new online furniture store for Ireland. Featuring a massive catalog of over 12,000 individual products across a wide variety of styles you’re sure to find what your looking for. The plan is to turn this into Ireland’s Largest Online Furniture Store so we’re working not just on the design and product catalog development but also on a complete online sales & marketing strategy.

Web Design Cork

There are literally hundreds of web designers in Cork but there is just a handful of professional web design companies that actually understand what a company needs to be successfull online and we are one of them.

Online since 1999, we’ve worked with hundreds of clients throughout Cork, Ireland and beyond. We have clients as far away as Thailand who’ve been with us since we started and there’s a very good reason for that.

Great Design, Excellent Rates and First Class Customer Service

Wide screen web design

Dell have confirmed that they will discontinue traditional screen sizes in the coming months and it’s widescreen by default from here on out.

This may not seem like a big deal but it is. Theres a whole load opportunity for starters. In the begining when we built for 800 X 600 pixels, we struggled to display all the important stuff on a single page. 1024 X 768 came along and helped us address that issue but brought with it some new issues. Fluid or flexi-width pages became the next big thing and for a long time the world settled into an internet world on 1024 X 768.

This worked quite will for us as content on a screen tended to be roughly the same width as a book, somewhere between 15 – 20 words per line and there was just enough space left over to give us a menu or peraps some relevenet advertising down the side. Today however there is almost 600 new pixels to the right that need filling.

Personally I dont think letting your main content stretch that far is a usefull option for the same reason that broadsheet newspapers are written in columns. 1600 pixels is too wide to scan with your eyes. You could use it for additional menu or advertising blocks but now you have decide which items are unimportant enough to put on a block that many people will not see. The result of course is a block of unimportant content.

Mike Madaio has an intersting article on using javascript to move your menus about based on the screen resolution if you decide to go down that route.

My sugestion is to use the space for a big juicy call to action. Depending on the site it may be an invitation to contact or enter a competition, etc. Now as it happens we are redesigning the snapiweb website and have decided to give it a try so I’ll update this blog with the design comps and let you see where we go with it.

HomeSpace.ie launches

have you ever wanted your own swimming pool at home? well we’ve just finished up working on homespace.ie for a Cork based client and thats exactly what they do.

HomeSpace have a range of stunning timber buildings that are perfect for all sorts of things such as swimming pools, games rooms, saunas and such. The’ve also go some smaller but very cool summerhouses, ideal for dining alfresco(ish) which seems like a good idea given our summer weather.

The website design is very much photo driven and uses our own in-house developed ajax photo gallery. Given the nature of the product we though it best to give users as visual an experience as possible rather that heaps of specs and text. The result is (in my biased opinion) a well layed out website that sells the products well.

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