PayPal is the easiest way to make and receive online payments, and they are present in 190 countries, with over 80 million active users.

Until now, a South African consumer or business could set up a PayPal account, and transfer money from their bank account to their PayPal account to make online purchases. The problem came when you would like to receive a payment via PayPal – you could receive the funds, but couldn’t transfer it back into your regular bank account, rendering it all but useless for most businesses. Now, with PayPal’s partnership with FNB, you can.

What this means for businesses is that e-commerce has just become much easier to get involved in. Up until now, it has been a complex process to create an online shop, which involved setting up payment gateway accounts and special ‘Online Merchant’ bank accounts. The banks would typically also request business plans and cash-flow statements for up to 2 years, as well as much other admin requirements. All this was a huge administrative load on a business that would like to experiment with online sales. Now the process has been greatly simplified:

• Create a PayPal account,
• Open an FNB account,
• Let One Part Scissors build your online shop.

PayPal even offers professional services which allow you to receive regular credit card payments as well as PayPal payments.
If you are interested in getting involved in e-commerce, contact One Part Scissors today to find out more about how to harness this exciting new development. Online sales worldwide are pinned in the hundreds of billions of dollars each year. Experts suggest that by 2020 the Internet Economy will amount to $3.8 trillion, surpassing the GDP of large countries like Germany.
Get involved in this exciting space on the web!

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The Music Connection website has always given an excellent snapshot of the huge range available at the shop. Now, an online experience allows visitors to make purchases online and browse a portion of the store’s massive range.

One Part Scissors worked closely with The Music Connection to ensure all the bank’s requirements were met as the site neared completion.

See the shop online at www.musicconnection.co.za/shop

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.

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