The images of the envisaged showrooms will be used to spark the imaginations of potential franchisees, as well as give a clear image to prospective landlords of the franchise.

The Mr Blind Logo.

More views of the proposed showroom.

OPS originally designed the Kitchen & Bedroom Gallery website in 2005. Since then, the website has seen updates to content such as pricing and product details.

In January 2009, KBG approached One Part Scissors to look at the website and see where it could be improved. Upon analyzing the Google Analytics information for the site, we found that the product pages were being visited the most – and stayed on for the longest of all the pages in the site, followed by the downloads.

To improve the site, a fresh new style was introduced that has been carried into the print design for the franchise. To cater to the visitor’s requirements, the downloads have been placed in a ‘find out more’ block on the home page.

OPS designed flyers to match the fresh new style of the website. These flyers will be distributed in the areas surrounding the showrooms

The products section, which was previously 5 or 6 separate pages in three sections, has been completely overhauled to display the content in a quick and stylish manner. Web 2.0 javascript and AJAX techniques have been used to keep the visitor clear on where they are and what options there are. Using animation to slide information in and out of view smoothly makes the overall experience of the site faster and more enjoyable.

The contacts section has also been redesigned to incorporate GPS co-ordinates for all the branches, and a Google Maps area on the contacts page shows the full size of the franchise.

To reduce the cost of the redesign, the original website photos were reused. These photos were re-photoshopped to give them a fresh new appeal, adding to the overall feel of a brand new website.

See the new site at kbg.co.za

One Part Scissors recently ported the dentdoctor.co.za website to a new website for the Arab Emirates region, at dentdoctor.ae.

The AE website has the same structure and content management system, as well as the same look and feel, but it is it’s own unique site with it’s own content. The content management system used has powerful language features that allow for the option of having the site in Arabic as well as in English, should the need for alternative languages arises. The system is versatile enough to allow for a slightly different layout in the right-to-left text orientation situation that would be required for Arabic.

The images are also specifically chosen to be more suitable to the Middle Eastern demographic.

See the site at dentdoctor.ae

Easylife Kitchens has relaunched their brand. Working with Branding Agency MGM Communications, One Part Scissors translated the new look and feel to the existing Easylife Kitchens Website.

The modern methodologies used by OPS to build the site in July 2008 allowed for a speedy and hassle-free change of style to bring the site up to date. (Read more about the original design here.

Read more about Easylife’s new brand here.

The overhaul of the Heyns Turf website completes a trio of websites designed for the DDH Group. The Group’s main website is a resource for people with product concepts, as well as for entrepreneurs interested in buying a franchise.

The Dent Doctor franchise website was the second site to be overhauled, and finally, the Heyns Turf artificial turf franchise website.

All the websites have a consistent look and feel running throughout, ensuring that the style of the group is carried through. This makes visitors to the website comfortable with new franchises and products as they are launched – the new products can immediately be recognised as part of the DDH Group of Companies.

Another website to carry the DDH theme is the PowerGuard Website, designed early in 2008.

The DDH Group websites are all based on the powerful Drupal content management system, which allows the head office to quickly and easily add information to all the websites in the group, using a familiar and easy-to-use content management system.

For the Heyns Turf website, One Part Scissors kept the grass background image from the previous site, while ensuring the look and feel of the other DDH Group websites was still carried across.

See the site at heynsturf.com, or see the all DDH Group websites by visiting ddh.co.za

The new website One Part Scissors has created for the Dent Doctor franchise takes the entire look and feel of the company in a new direction. The focus is on the customer’s experience, and most importantly, the imagery of the website has moved away from dented cars, to people enjoying their vehicles.

The message conveyed is one that reminds the visitor that their car can be the source of enjoyable experiences, and while they are currently looking to resolve a difficult ‘car situation’, the images in the site keep the purpose behind the repair in the top of the customer’s mind.

The website makes use of a content management system which allows Dent Doctor to quickly and easily update the site with news and new branch information, and a branch browser allows visitors to the site to quickly find their closest branch.

See the site at dentdoctor.co.za

The DDH Group of Companies includes established brands such as the Dent Doctor franchise, and fresh new products such as the PowerGuard and HeynsTurf. The Group’s website seeks to become a gathering place for entrepreneurs to discuss relevant topics.

The main purpose of the website is to communicate that the DDH Group can help the budding entrepreneur see their dream realized with the help of the DDH Group.

See the site at ddh.co.za

One Part Scissors has created an all-new website for Easylife Kitchens.

The style of the new site is fresh and modern, and it uses the very latest Web 2.0 technologies to deliver content to the viewers of the site quickly and easily.

A very popular feature in the previous Easylife Kitchens website was a gallery of kitchens done by Easylife. This gallery has now grown to over 300 images, and it had become slow and cumbersome to use – the gallery displayed a single page of thumbnails for the entire gallery.

The new site uses a far more sophisticated database, completely re-written for the new site, which allows the user to browse the specific styles they’re looking for, and even allows them to vote on kitchens they like the look of. Clicking an image brings up a larger view of the kitchen without even leaving the gallery page.

With 25 showroom countrywide, the contact section also needed improvements – the contact links are now aware of where the site visitor was when they contacted an Easylife showroom, allowing the consultant to be up to speed with the customer before even picking up the phone for a return call.

See the new website in action at www.easylifekitchens.co.za

The DDH Group commissioned One Part Scissors with the task of creating a clean, stylish website for a product called the PowerGuard. The PowerGuard is a device that will allow households to counter the problem of load shedding by managing the household’s power consumption.

One Part Scissors created a website using the latest web 2.0 techniques to create a website that is easy to browse, and makes use of a single page, with different information being loaded into that page is requested by the user. The look and feel of the website also makes use of the latest style of web design, with large simple buttons and easy to read information.

See the site at powerguard.co.za

One Part Scissors has just updated The Lighting Warehouse website with an online catalogue of their vast product range. The catalogue allows users to browse the product range quickly and easily.

The catalogue allows a visitor to the site to find out more about products they are interested in before visiting a Lighting Warehouse showroom.

The Catalogue also will allow showroom staff to access the product range. This will come in handy when an item is out of stock or on order – they will still be able to show shoppers an image of the product.

Further enhancements are planned for 2008 to add additional layers of information and integration with The Lighting Warehouse’s internal data.

Visit the catalogue at lightingwarehouse.co.za