The Camera Centre – Reboot!

Visit www.thecameracentre.net

The Camera Centre website’s last incarnation had been turning over since 2004 and it was time to launch into the 2010 new year with a vibrant and easy to use system not only for members but for administration also. Tieing more succinctly with back-end shop operations the new website cuts out tedious stock filling across multiple systems whilst providing an easy to use interface for not only members but for guest shoppers also.

An easy to use one click shopping basket facility provides users the ability to choose and purchase items without getting bogged down in multiple pages of payment processing. This simple feature provides a substantial reduction in abandoned shopping baskets and invertly an increase in sales; what everyone want’s! With several successful Search Engine Optimisation techniques running throughout the site, The Camera Centre is now even easier to find.

Press Release

Local Shetland retailer The Camera Centre has just launched a new internet store with some international help.

Owner Cecil Hughson and Manager, Ben Mullay knew that to extend their business a fresh online initiative was needed. This was especially important as many of the Camera Centre’s customers are in the outer islands and don’t travel into Lerwick often. There is also a large expat community who like to order photos for delivery to relatives in Shetland.

Working with New Zealand based marketing strategists, First Retail Ltd, Canadian software developers Dakis Decision Systems Inc and Cecil’s son in law John Smith, owner of yadUK, The Camera Centre has developed a product range that includes home-wear, gifts and décor – all created using customer’s own photos.

First Retail’s Director, Chris Wilkinson knew the Camera Centre’s dilemma well. With clients in many island territories including the Channel Islands, The Cook Islands, French Polynesia and Fiji the web has been a key element in helping these businesses engage with their community.

Up until recently, many of the products needed to be sent away for production. New technology has allowed stores in remote areas to create these on-site. The Camera Centre has invested in equipment, systems and training that will ensure work can stay within the Islands. In the future it is hoped the store will also develop export markets to the mainland and beyond.

Timed to launch in the key gift giving period leading up to Christmas, the site has already proven popular. Within hours of going live, orders began to arrive. Most popular lines so far have included photo collages, coasters, placemats and mousemats.

Launched on December 4th 2009
PHP, MySQL, e-commerce, SEO

 The Lerwick Boating Club has over the last 25 years changed from the days when it only organised summer sailing races and a regatta in Shetland. Today, in addition they have yacht races, dinghy races, a yoal team and lots of training sessions for beginners and junior members.

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Reboot of the Lerwick Boating Club Website
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(previous – 06/06/2006)
To reflect this they required a re-vamped site from which they could easily update their pages and news through a web based interface. This was achieved by providing a PHP / MySQL based CMS system.

The top image on the site was obtained from www.panphotos.co.uk – specialists in producing high quality panoramic photographic prints and images of Shetland and further afield.

XHTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL
Hosted by yadUKHosting
goto site http://www.lerwickboatingclub.co.uk

“Michael Inkster & Co. was established in March 1995, operating initially from modest offices just outside Lerwicks town centre. Since then the firm’s client base has grown year after year and now occupies modern and spacious office accommodation in the heart of Lerwicks main street – Commercial Street – conveniently close to …”
Site built with Perl/CGI backend serving pages from MySQL datastore. Perl templating has allowed a light easily manageable site.

Client can upload own properties through intuitive custom “Content Management System” inclusive of image resizing functionality by using Perls GD libraries.

XHTML, CSS, Perl, PHP, MySQL
Hosted by yadUKHosting
goto site http://www.shetlandislesproperty.co.uk

The Camera Centre, a locally owned business in Shetland. Originally a static information based site – the interest in cameras, camcorders etc. spurned a need for a fully updateable e-commerce site.
The sites shopping cart software allows for users to log in after setting up an account and cache products into their virtual shopping cart. When ready the user can then proceed to the checkout facility.

Users can also view latest and best buy products – calculated from the MySQL backend and displayed for ease of viewing.

e-commerce, HTML, Javascript,
CSS, PHP, MySQL, Flash, Linux
Hosted by yadUKHosting
goto site http://www.thecameracentre.net