Archive for the ‘Inspiring design’ Category

The horrors of wordpress + e-commerce

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

Having just spent several hours testing and hacking through the promising but woefully under-developed and under-supported wordpress e-commerce plugin I thought I’d share a few links to nicely built shopping sites that I’ve been looking at while working on another design for a different client. It’s difficult to criticise the wp e-commerce developers for what they’ve built as it’s a hugely promising plugin for wordpress but I’d have to say if anyone is looking it up with half a mind to use it. I’d probably recommend something different that’s a little further down the development line than this one.

Some nicely designed e-commerce sites

Shoe Guru

That said, and while working for a different client, I’ve come across some really nicely designed and developed shopping sites which in no particular order are:

Recreating Hitchcock

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

Vanity Fair decided to recreate some of the classic scenes from the films of Alfred Hitchcock using modern day actors and actresses.

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Solar, with lyrics

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

Beautiful work as usual from flight404 creating a solar effect based on the timing of the beat and incorporating the vocals this lovely flash movie.

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