Little Fire for Bespoke Website Development in Isle of Wight
At Little Fire Digital Limited, we have been developing custom online solutions countrywide for many years. We’ve fixed a lot of knotty issues and created some terrific solutions.
In the past, Little Fire have: written stock management systems for a Sheffield supermarket chain, integrated the Brightpearl Retail Operating System with unique websites, created custom products to sell maps from Google maps, bonds to help construct the Plough Lane Stadium for AFC Wimbledon; and a simplified checkout page to sell mountaineering expeditions online.
Web Development in Shanklin – A Solution for Every Project
Your business is your own and you’ll know more about it than we can guess at. So, instead, here are few micro case studies to show some of the problems we’ve managed to fix.
Unique Web Development for Business Worldwide
Aiming High
Since the late 1980s, Jagged Globe has been one of the leading company organising high-altitude adventures for climbers. They were the first British company to organise a professionally-run attempt on Everest. Jagged Globe organise adventures for climbers around the world.
We didn’t design the website but we have completed a great deal, while keeping its original design and its stunning photography.
It hasn’t been straightforward, over the years we have had to:
- Redevelop so that the site meets Google’s mobile-friendly standard.
- To meet the PCI (Payment Card Industry) requirements, we coded for the Sagepay (Opayo) payment gateway to take deposits online.
- Massively simplified the booking procedure. Returning clients can now book a expedition in as few as 5 clicks.
- Developed a system for recording customer fitness. Climbing in the wilderness can be dangerous and is often physically demanding – Jagged Globe need to know that each climber is fit to travel.
- Integrated the company’s site with the SendInBlue mail management system so the mailing lists are completely GDPR compliant.
- To help Jagged Globe display the many images that the climbers collect, we have implemented an application to upload and manage climbers’ photos in bulk.
Unique Web Development for e-commerce in Shanklin
As one of most successful online vendors of model railways and hobbies in the North, with a volume of sales to match, Rails of Sheffield needed us to develop an enterprise-level e-commerce solution.
Built on the rock-solid Shopify system, the new Rails of Sheffield site has proven to be the solution they need.
The new site fixes a number of problems:
- The model railway market permits pre-orders with very long delivery times. To allow this, we have created a on-off, separate pre-order system using javascript integrated directly into the Shopify framework.
- Stock management and order fulfilment is processed using Peoplevox. Little Fire coordinated teams of developers to get Peoplevox talking to Shopify and the client’s two ebay stores.
Whatever you‘re selling, we’d love to hear from you.
Web Development for
New Businesses Countrywide
Little Fire Digital helped build the website for Worthing beauty practice, Casafia, when they needed something personal. This was a perfect task for Little Fire; we worked with our client to develop the logo and branding featuring soft colourways with crisp, modern layout.
The website features online booking through the Pabau Customer Relationship Management System – a system developed for the medical aesthetics market.
Pabau smoothly works with Mailchimp to handle customer communications so we completed the Pabau email templates so that they matched the exact branding of the corporate website. Mailing list sign up forms on the main site add customers straight to a Mailchimp mailing list and the user can update their settings without ever leaving casafia.com.
To keep things simple, the chat widget works with Facebook Messenger – our client’s usual text platform.
Custom Web Development for Fundraising
AFC Wimbledon were in a spot of bother. They had years robbed of their historical home ground, Plough Lane, and had amazingly managed to purchase a site and start building the their new stadium on the same street, Plough Lane, in Wimbledon.
The new ground was almost finished but they had run out of money.
Under lunatic time pressure, we stepped up and worked like fools and delivered a bespoke platform from which AFC Wimbledon could sell bonds to raise money from their supporters.
It was 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 Shanklin and Isle of Wight
Custom Web Development, Shanklin
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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