Nonprofit web design

Adam is a besom broom maker, spoon carver and woodturner. I recently overhauled his website so he can sell his carved spoons through an online shop.

E-Commerce on a budget

The website uses a shopping cart called WP E-Commerce which enables customers to buy online and for Adam to receive payment via PayPal. This plugin is free although for about £20 you can uprade to a Gold Cart version with more capabilities. This is a small price to pay for a shopping cart which has, on the whole, been easy to install.

WordPress

Adam had been using Adobe Contribute software to make changes to his website, but now he uses WordPress instead. He can edit all the pages on his own website, as well as upload products and change their descriptions and images.

The look and style of the website comes from a modified version of the Aesthete theme for WordPress. Using a pre-built theme is another way to keep time and costs down when developing a website.

Gallery plugin

As well as having a stock of carved spoons to sell, Adam also takes commissions. They can’t be shown in the shop, so we created a separate gallery of photos of commissions on his website. We used the NexGen Gallery plugin for WordPress and found it easy to install and quick to upload the photos.

Visit www.adamking.co.uk to see Adam’s website.

Gary Rance, woodturner’s website

Here’s another craftsman’s website that I worked on recently: www.garyrance.co.uk. Using a free WordPress theme, we quickly put this site live. It uses the same shopping cart plugin as Adam’s website.

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