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publicgriefjunkie

The new publicgriefjunkie website integrates a wordpress blog into a custom ColdFusion e-commerce system. The system is designed to focus attention on their newest product ranges, whilst giving equal attention to the unique company persona that has been fostered over many years of market trading.

With template design by Afovea, and extensive collaboration with the people behind publicgriefjunkie, the new website has been very well received by their existing fanbase and subscribers.

Visit live site: www.publicgriefjunkie.com

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Sally Bourne Interiors

Muswell Hill based Sally Bourne Interiors sells unique hand crafted items for the home and garden, as well as offering arts and crafts workshops.

Their new website, utilising a bespoke e-commerce system and an in-house design, compliments their retail outlets and allows them to offer a select range of items and tickets to their popular workshops.

Visit live site: www.SallyBourneInteriors.co.uk

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Choosr

An internal project, Choosr.co.uk was created alongside Afovea as a simple solution to our collective indecisiveness. The site enables users to quickly generate a random yes/no answer, or enter in custom questions and multiple answer choices.

In the future, we're planning to expand the service to include dice rolls, poker hands and destination choosers.

Visit live site: www.choosr.co.uk

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Sold Out Trainers

Sold Out Trainers specialise in sales and management training and work with several high profile organisations.

Their site uses a custom built content management system that gives full control over the information displayed to potential new clients, as well as allowing them to maintain an online portfolio of the training courses they offer.

The system automatically generates their portfolio in PDF format for easy download, and has a contextual search feature to help customers find the right course for them.

This was a joint project with Afovea.

Visit live site: www.soldout-trainers.com

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Geller Business Machines

Geller Business Machines are the UK's largest independent supplier of electronic cash registers and EPOS systems, with a network of over 140 dealers.

Their site utilises a bespoke content management system, giving them complete control over the wealth of product and company information available.

The site also allows for the cross referencing of EPOS features across their product range, allowing niche customers to find the system best suited to their individual needs.

The new site sports a slick new design from Afovea.com.

Visit live site: www.geller.co.uk

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Suay Design

Suay Design offer an array of unique titanium, steel and silver jewellery - however their online sales were suffering from an outdated and cumbersome website.

Utilising a custom e-commerce solution that is specifically tailored to the requirements of jewellery retail, the new system combines a beautiful new design by Afovea, with semantic markup and a slick user experience.

The new site has rejuvinated the Suay Design online brand and resulted in a dramatic increase in sales.

Visit live site: www.suaydesign.com

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Epos Essentials

Geller Business Machines are the UK's largest independent suppliers of electronic cash registers and EPOS systems.

They required a custom e-commerce solution to provide epos peripherals and accessories to their network of dealers across the UK. The bespoke system, built entirely to their specifications, features several bespoke enhancements to aid in the B2B business model.

Visit live site: www.eposessentials.com

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Splatt! Jewellery

Splatt! is a popular market stall in Camden's famous 'Lock Market', offering unique silver jewellery.

Splatt's owner Martin, needed a website that reflected his own personality, as well as the ethos of his business. Along with a simple and fun design created by Afovea, the Splatt! website is run by a custom built and easy to use content management system, allowing Martin to keep his customers up to date with latest news, events and photos.

Visit live site: www.splattcamden.com

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Ed Watts

Celebrity photographer Ed Watts, required a simple to use gallery system to run his website.

With hundreds of online photography portfolios to sift through, Ed felt that image researchers would appreciate a cut down style that would allow the photography to stand out on it's own.

Ed's site uses a bespoke gallery system, custom built to meet his requirements. It is easy to maintain and allows Ed to concentrate on taking great photographs.

Visit live site: www.edwatts.co.uk

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Afovea

Afovea design studio specialises in branding and web design. I've been working with them for some time now, coding websites and applications for their clients. Recently most of my clients' sites have been designed by them.

Their website utilises a custom built content management system to allow them to communicate with their clients and show off their design work.

Visit live site: www.Afovea.com

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RetroGT.com

When I'm not making websites, I make t-shirts based on old-skool retro video games.

RetroGT.com was the first installation of the Simian Enterprises bespoke e-commerce system. This initial system allows for customer reviews, automated order processing and customer notification, cross product promotion and a full text contextual search, among many other features.

Built to be automatically optimised for search engine rankings, each new t-shirt design generally ranks highly across major search engines without any extra effort.

Visit live site: www.retrogt.com

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Simian Enterprises is the trading name of Gary Stanton, a freelance web developer working by the sea in Brighton, UK. Gary's been creating websites since 1996 and still loves it. Read more

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