Vagabond Vintage create vintage inspired decor and interior items. One Part Scissors was tasked with creating an identity for the new business, as well as a website and online shop.

The website has gone live, with the online shop launching soon.

OPS designed a website that was stylish and conveyed the style of personality of Vagabond Vintage.

The website is built on the Drupal content management system, which allows Vagabond Vintage quick and easy access to update the website with new products, news & events, and inspiration stories for the blog.

Along with the website, a social media presence has been established on Facebook and Twitter to allow for customers and fans to interact with Vagabond Vintage.

See the vagabondvintage.co.za website

Like the Vagabond Vintage Facebook page

Follow Vagabond Vintage on Twitter

BOBCAT manufactures construction and farming equipment, such as skid-steer loaders, excavators, and other hydraulic equipment.

BOBCAT SA approached One Part Scissors to design a new website to mirror the refreshed style of the brand and bring it more in line with the style of the BOBCAT USA website.

The website OPS built for BOBCAT has a bold, heavy-duty feel using the intense colours of the brand – red, black, and white. The background is textured to give the website a ‘real world’ feel.

The BOBCAT SA website is built on the excellent Drupal content management system, which allows BOBCAT the ability to quickly and easily keep the website up to date. The site is set up in such a way that new products can be added to the product library quickly and easily.

See the new site at bobcatsa.co.za

One Part Scissors continues to assist GodFirst in keeping their website up to date on a monthly basis, but the website theme was beginning to look dated, and the time was right to give the website a complete refresh.

Having being built on the excellent Drupal Content Management System meant that the update was relatively quick and painless – all the previous content was retained, which allowed us to create a visually striking theme, and focus on the usability of some key sections of the website – such as the hugely popular resources centre.

Along with adding usability features such as search and an easier to navigate menu, we created a ‘Big Footer’ for the bottom of the website. This new trend in web design allows for all the links on the website to be viewed at a glance – making finding a specific page very easy. This footer begins to act as a site map for people who are new to the site or lost – and allows search engines to quickly index all the pages on the website.

See the new site at godfirst.co.za

Blue Horizon Licensing approached One Part Scissors to create a new website that better reflected the company on the Internet.

Blue Horizon Licensing manages the licensing for several brands in the Mattel stable, including Barbie, Hot Wheels, and Monster High. The website has a strong Blue Horizon identity, but the pages with info on the various brands carries the brand’s look-and-feel through to the pages, giving the site additional colour and interest.

Barbie Info Page

Hot Wheels Info Page

OPS worked in conjunction with Blue Horizon’s designers to create the website based on a visual concept created by Chantelle Thessner.

Monster High Info Page

The Blue Horizon Contacts Page features a Google Map which is interactive, allowing visitors to get customized directions based on their own location.

See the website at blueh.co.za

Solace Massage is a local therapeutic massage practice in North Riding, Johannesburg. The new business required a fresh, elegant identity, to be conveyed in their online presence, from a website, to a Facebook Page.

The Solace identity is stylish and modern, and a total departure from the usual massage website, featuring the same old stock images of a person with hot stones on their back. The Solace website’s textured, earthy feel combines with the dramatic sketched image of the elegant woman to create a look and feel that is current and interesting.

The website makes use of Google Maps technology to assist people in finding their way to the venue, and the excellent Drupal content management system takes care of SEO requirements and makes updating the website fast and dead simple.

A Facebook presence is a vital part of any online strategy today. From all the clients who currently have a Facebook presence, we are seeing roughly a third of all visitors finding the company’s corporate website via Facebook. The way in which a brand can interact with it’s public on Facebook is the way forward – emails are being ignored more and more due to the high number of spam messages the average user contends with on a daily basis – and so the ‘opt-in’ and very much less aggressive nature of the Facebook connection makes it popular with users.

A Facebook user can “like” your page, and then any news from your company gets added to their daily news stream, allowing them to read the headlines, and decide if they wish to find out more.

See solacemassage.co.za
See the Solace Massage Facebook page here

One Part Scissors was approached by House of Print to redesign their corporate website.
House of Print is one of the largest print houses in South Africa, and their old website was dated and no longer portrayed an accurate picture of the company.

The website is built on the versatile Drupal content management system, and the design of the website allows House of Print to add new background images that will change the personality of the website when their current “Think Ink” campaign ends. The “Think Ink” campaign makes use of high quality photography of people with ink and paint photoshopped cleverly into the images. The website selects a new random background image for every page you visit, ensuring that visitors will see as many of the images as possible.

The contacts section makes use of Google Maps and a Google Street View block to assist people in finding their way to House of Print.

See the website at houseofprint.co.za

OPS was approached to revamp the Southern Business School website.

The Southern Business School website was already built on the excellent Drupal content management system, so all that was required to do was create a completely new custom theme for the site. OPS used the newest style found in Southern Business School’s print advertising, to create a website that is warmer and more inviting. The rich brown gradient background is offset by the strong white, black and red of the rest of the theme, making the website content easy to read and easy to find.
OPS made use of latest CSS3 techniques to enhance the look of the website for users of modern browsers such as Firefox, Safari, or Google Chrome. These enhancements include subtle shadows on the site’s content block, and the 3-column formatting of the text makes reading faster and easier.

The menu system was also overhauled to be simpler to navigate – with the 6 most important links finding themselves in a strong white block at the  top of every page, with slightly less important links floating just below the main links.

The social media aspect of this project was the creation of a Twitter theme for the Twitter account.

We have also developed a Facebook Application for Southern Business School, to expand the footprint of the school’s footprint in the social media. See the story about the Facebook Check-in App we designed here.

See the website at www.sbsonline.info

OPS recently completed the RealStart website. RealStart is a non-profit organisation involved in the development of youth from disadvantaged backgrounds. Their program seeks to give the students a real chance in live – a ‘real start’.

The website we designed for RealStart is stylish and modern, and fulfills two important roles – information about the programme and the organisation, and a call for sponsorship, donation and involvement. The website makes it easy to pledge a donation or get involved in other ways, and the RealStart team can then make contact.

The website is built on the Drupal content management system, allowing for quick and easy updates by the RealStart team. The Drupal base allows RealStart to easily add new features later on – such as student blogs, without needing a major upgrade.

See the website at realstart.org

Umsizi Sustainable Social Solutions is a company which ‘provides sustainable social solutions and socio-economic expertise’ for government and non-governmental organizations, for the mining industry, for for the communities impacted by the activities and developments of these companies. Umsizi approached One Part Scissors to create a stylish new website that conveys the high-impact nature of their business, while providing clients and potential clients all the information they require to make their decision about making use of Umsizi’s services.

The website we created for Umsizi is built on the Drupal content management system, allowing for a powerful and robust base for the website. The website also features a client login, whereby Umsizi clients can access their project documentation in a safe and secure environment.

The choice of images and design elements communicates the feeling of an effective high-impact organization. Certain images were supplied by Umsizi, showing the communities which they have impacted through their work, and more conceptual images of the industries they work into are represented by stock photography. Overall, the images convey activity and energy.

See the website at www.umzisi.co.za

The style of the website makes use of real-world textures to add a “realness” to the look-and-feel of the website. Elements are layered with subtle shadows and torn paper edges.

Interesting textures make this search box an interesting design element.

The website is built on the brilliant Drupal content management system, which has created a solid base for the church moving forward. New features are easily added, and content is quick and easy to update.

The Change Bible Church Podcast downloading in iTunes.

The website features an iTunes-compatible podcast, and all members of the church that sign up for a account on the site can create their own blog. This community aspect allows people to connect more deeply with each other on the website.

See the website at changebiblechurch.co.za