E-Commerce

Marina Music

Marina Music sells jazz sheet music for Big Band, Vocals with Big Bands and Small Ensemble Charts. However, the website for this unique and successful business was beginning to look at bit dated. Plus, the store was run on a no-longer supported e-commerce platform, Jigoshop. Clearly, this put the store in a rather precarious position.

Marina Music Original Homepage

Andrea Herrick  provided an updated layout and colors for the site including new call to action boxes.  The  Marina Music website retains the general look and feel of the original site including branding and the rotating banners.  The site now incorporates a responsive layout, allowing customers to shop on their mobile devices.

Marina Music New Homepage

Since this site was already on WordPress and WooCommerce was initially a fork of Jigoshop, we decided a conversion from JigoShop to WooCommerce was the best approach. The project was launched on a staging site and then moved to the live site when it was completed. We used Cart2Cart shopping cart migration service for the initial port to WooCommerce. The migration worked almost flawlessly!  The categories acquired new IDs in the process leading to a few coding changes but this was a very minor issue.

Once the shopping cart migration was complete, the next step was to replace all the Jigoshop actions and filters with similar code from WooCommerce.  For example, we needed to make sure that customers knew which items had sample audio files and, of course, we would need the ability to play them.

Marina Music Original Category Page

The client wanted to remove some of the widgets from the sidebar as part of the redesign and some elements were rearranged.

Marina Music New Category Page

Cornforth Images

Cornforth Images was originally launched in 2012.  It was a custom WordPress theme featuring a WooCommerce shopping cart that was tailored to meet the photographer’s needs. The jQuery Isotope plugin was used to display the shop’s categories.Horsepower Design created graphic design for the site.

The site’s unique layout emphasizing the photos was feature in the WooCommerce Blog.

Cornforth Images Category Layout

However, as time went on, some of the cart customizations began to cause issues during updates. Plus, the site layout was not responsive so it was difficult to use on a mobile device.

Moving forward, we wanted to keep some of the unique features of the site such as the category layout and the ability to view the main image as it might look in a home, hotel, office or restaurant.