Little Fire for Bespoke Web Development in Central Bedfordshire
At Little Fire Digital, we have been developing bespoke websites nationwide since the beginning of the internet. We’ve solved a lot of intricate issues and created some great solutions.
In our history, our team have: written stock control systems for a Sheffield supermarket franchise, integrated the Brightpearl Retail Operating System with bespoke websites, created custom products to sell maps from interactive browsable maps, bonds to help finish the Plough Lane Stadium for AFC Wimbledon; and a simplified checkout page to sell adventure trips online.
Custom Web Development in Central Bedfordshire – A Solution for Every Problem
Your business and its challenges are yours, until you share them with us we can’t tell you anything meaningful about them. So, instead, here are some brief examples to demonstrate some of the solutions we’ve delivered.
Custom Web Development for Businesses Worldwide
Aiming for the Top
Since the late 1980s, Jagged Globe has been one of the leading company organising high-altitude adventures for clients. They were the first English company to organise a professionally-led attempt on Everest. Jagged Globe organise trips for climbers globally.
Although we didn’t design the Jagged Globe website but we’ve updated a great deal, while keeping the original design with its stunning imagery.
It hasn’t been straightforward, to stay up to date we have had to:
- Ensure the site meets Google’s mobile-friendly standard.
- To meet the PCI (Payment Card Industry) regulations, we coded for the Sagepay (Opayo) payment system to take deposits online.
- Completely redesigned the booking user-experience. Returning customers can now book a trip in as few as 5 clicks.
- Implemented a procedure for recording customer health. Climbing mountains is not without risk and is often physically demanding – Jagged Globe need to know that each and every climber is safe to travel.
- Integrated the Jagged Globe site with the SendInBlue mail management system so the mailing lists are completely GDPR compliant.
- To help the company make best use of the many pictures that the climbers collect, we have implemented tools to upload and manage climbers’ photos in bulk.
Bespoke Web Development for e-commerce in Flitwick
Rails of Sheffield, are amongst the busiest online retailers of model railways and craft goods in the country – with a volume of sales to match. When they came to Little Fire, we needed to deliver enterprise-level e-commerce.
Built on the market-leading Shopify system, the new Rails of Sheffield site has provided the much-needed stability to allow the business to grow.
The new site meets a number of challenges:
- The model railway marketplace involves pre-orders with extraordinarily long delivery timeframes. To manage this, we have created a custom, distinct pre-order system using javascript integrated directly into the Shopify framework.
- Stock management and order fulfilment is processed using Peoplevox. We coordinated development teams to get Peoplevox talking to Shopify and Rails of Sheffield’s two ebay stores.
Whatever you have to sell, we’d love to hear from you.
Web Development for
New Businesses Nationwide
When West Sussex beauty practice, Casafia were looking to build their website, they came to the help of Little Fire {Digital}. A dream project for us; we collaborated with our client to create the logo and branding which combines subtle colours with sharp, modern layout.
The website features online booking through the Pabau Customer Relationship Management System – a system designed for the beauty market.
Pabau is built to directly work with Mailchimp to handle client emails so we completed the Pabau email templates so that they matched the lovingly created branding of the corporate site. Mailing list sign up forms on the site add clients straight to a Mailchimp list and the customer can update their contact preferences without ever leaving casafia.com.
To keep things simple, the chat widget is integrated to work with Facebook Messenger – our client’s preferred chat platform.
Custom Website Development for Fundraising
AFC Wimbledon were in a spot of bother. They had years away from their traditional home ground, Plough Lane, and had finally managed to acquire a site and start building the their new stadium on the same street, Plough Lane, in Wimbledon.
The new ground was about to be completed but they had run out of money.
Under mad time pressure, Little Fire Digital stepped in, worked like slaves to created them a standalone platform from which the club could issue bonds to raise money from their supporters.
It has been the most successful fundraiser in the history of the English football league, and Little Fire helped it to make it happen. Read the case study to find out more.
“Wimbledon fans are always at their best in a crisis and we like a challenge. So when we needed to stop control of the club being sold off in late 2019, a few of us suggested launching a Bond scheme.
That idea went from concept to a live website in a fortnight thanks to the tireless efforts of Simon and Little Fire.
They had to deal with all of the standard website challenges (design, layout, content etc) as well complying with legal regulations and compliance policies that were being finalised as we went along.
Oh, and that fortnight included Christmas and New Year. It was a difficult brief on an impossible timescale, but they threw themselves into it wholeheartedly and delivered a well-designed, easy-to-use robust and secure solution under all that pressure.
And the campaign? Well that raised over £5m in a matter of weeks and is the largest bond raise by a British football club ever. If Little Fire can produce work like this so quickly and effectively, I can only imagine how much they could achieve for your business if you give them a sensible timeframe. We are indebted to Simon and his team. You helped Bring The Dons Home.”
Charlie Talbot
The Plough Lane Bond
Web Development and Related Services for Flitwick and Central Bedfordshire
Custom Web Development, Flitwick
To get a better idea of what we do, who we’ve done it for and how we do it, check out some of our case studies.
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