Web and
digital design
The art of creating a visually stunning yet highly intuitive and user friendly web design is something the Sparkstone team have been fine tuning for years. Our graphic designers and web development specialists work closely to create solutions that aim to be future proof both in terms of visual style as well as any under-the-bonnet technology used.
Programming Languages like HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, ASP and .NET might seem like rocket science, but our talented team are much more than just trained web monkeys. We'll put you on a course towards best practice solutions that will take your business further than you thought possible.
Our brochure website and Ecommerce stores are amazingly easy to maintain. Using our Advanced CMS you be able to edit text and image content all within a recognisable page structure. You can add dynamic content from News stories and even Product pages right within the CMS itself. Overall it's a much more streamlined and intuitive way of working than you might be used to in products like IBM Websphere or Umbraco.
Why you need good design
Branding, print and POS
Design Portfolio
Featured design case study
Sigma Sport
Sigma are a leader in the pack of cycle retailers throughout Europe and the UK. With their ecommerce website and professional racing team they have a wide reach and distribute globally as well as being the Specialized Store partner for London. Because of this partnership with Specialized they wanted a website to reflect both their own branding and some design elements from Specialized's own style guidelines.
They also wanted an ecommerce web solution that would enable them to update content frequently as well as being able to create new landing pages for product offers and news events. We introduced them to our CMS (Content Management System) and worked closely with their new marketing team to create a range of page templates that would enable them to react quickly and consistently to the every day challenges of running an ecommerce business.
On Sigma's new homepage design we implemented a jQuery carousel of products that are selected from within the Sparkstone EPoS software. Rotating carousels are a great way of getting more content on to your website homepage and have valuable SEO benefits as they help to boost the amount of indexable content that Google or other search engines will find interesting or relevant. With the latest relaunch of Sigma's website (March 2012) we added new functionality to our product carousels, which enables them to identify the category landing page they appear on and subsequently which products to show.
A big change in the Sigma site this year is the intr duction of CSS media queries. This new technology allows us to create different page layout for different viewing screen sizes. Although we haven't gone down to mobile screen sizes in this update, the site does fit nicely onto a range of devices from iPads right up to 1920 x 1080p monitors.
The March 2012 update of the Sigma site also saw the introduction of more functional 'product stamps' on category and search results pages. Customers can now add to basket and check product availability without even entering the product details page.
