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.

We created a logo (see more about the logo here), website and magazine advert for the fledgling business.

The magazine advert was designed for the April 2009 issue of Homemaker’s Faire. The Homemaker’s magazine is a very busy publication with many adverts, so a strong, clean layout was used to ensure it would stand out in the crowd.

The affordability was a major selling point for the product, and so the ‘Wrap Doors from R310/m” is a focal point on all items, from the advert, which it boldly takes up a third of the advert, to the website, where it can be found on all the pages of the site.

See the site at kitchenunits.co.za

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

The Josic Wrap Doors logo makes use of a strong blue gradient, offset with green. The clean, modern font makes the logo easy to ready, and the bold colours allow it to stand out in a very crowded market place.

See the print and web design OPS recently completed for Josic Wrap Doors here.

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

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