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Archive for 2009

Clothing Widget for Play.com Generates 18.5% Conversion

News, Web Development, eCommerce by Steve

Our latest project for Play.com – a widget application for their clothing channel – has resulted in 18% of people visiting the service making a purchase.

Why such a high conversion rate? Well our Clothing Widget lets you choose clothes from Play.com’s fabulous range, add them to your virtual wardrobe and then arrange them creatively on a mannequin to see what stylish outfit you’ve selected. Read More…

 

Custom 3D Animation Excellence

3D Modelling & Animation, News by Duncan

We are a versatile bunch here at The Pixel. We can do just about anything that looks visually beautiful. And you might not have known this, which is our fault and not yours, but we’re also a dab hand at 3D animation videos.

Just take a look at what we’ve done for our clients and friends at Natural Motion, the game developers/animation pioneers. Natural Motion entrusted in us the honour of producing their new logo animation. Read More…

 

Affordable Magento Development for All

News, eCommerce by Steve

We’ve just launched our brand new service to provide ecommerce development using the successful Magento application. Take a look at our brand new website for a more detailed explanation of exactly what we offer: http://www.thepixel.com/magento/.

The service will be affordable to both small and large businesses, whether new to the internet or established traders, and will feature the vast array of facilities present in the Magento ecommerce platform. Read More…

 

The CSS Awards The Pixel ‘Site of The Month’

News, Website Design by Blog Master

Hello there my friendly little web hermits. Do you recall me boasting of our success in a time not so long ago, at achieving the Site of the Day honour from The CSS Awards?

No? Never-matter, as it’s old hat. Our score of 8.09 was bold enough to defeat all web design specialist foes (and worthy competitors they were…) to gloriously present us with the Site of The Month award. Site of the Day is so last blog. Read More…

 

Our Client Grows by 230% in One Year

News, eCommerce by Steve

Fun4Kids, the outdoor toy specialists, have this month announced their Year on Year growth rate. From October 08 till October 09 Fun4Kids has grown by 230%.

Yes that’s 230%.  Yes that’s not bad. Why are we telling you all this? Well, that’s because it was about a year ago that The Pixel jumped on board with Fun4Kids to attempt to expand the business’ online presence, and with it, the business. Read More…

 

Copywriting Tutorial: Tips to Improve Your Web Copy

Blog Archive, Tips & Tutorials by dan

This is not a tutorial entitled ‘How to Become a Copywriter’. You’ll find plenty of those on the web. This is a guide that we at The Pixel think will help you quickly improve the copy on your website using just a few easy pointers.

So if you think your blog articles or product descriptions could do with a little TLC then why not take some time applying the 4 points below: Read More…

 

The Pixel 3D Website will Offer More Revolutionary Design

Artwork, Blog Archive by Duncan

You may have noticed the word ‘Beta’ above our blog. Although our new blog site is our current pride and joy, the truth is it was all a bit of an accident.

The Pixel’s blog site’s only reason for being is the amazing concept art we had drawn for our original new website design. The scene below was drawn from scratch and was bound to be our new flash based website. However, things gradually changed and we revised our design to be totally modelled in 3D animation – discarding our lovely pictures. Read More…

 

The CSS Awards The Pixel

News, Website Design by Blog Master

Jubilation! We at right honourable The Pixel always knew how much hard work and sweaty-ness went into our new blog site – but we had no idea anyone else had even noticed.

But they have. Today we feature on world renowned The CSS Awards website as Site of the Day! Canst thou barely believe it? We can – with a score of 8.09 we’re top of the premier style league. And if all you good, good, attractive noblemen and women out there vote with your mouse clickers, you may help us achieve Site of the Month. Read More…

 

Fun4Kids Xmas Mailout Peaks Sales

News by Blog Master

Greetings my friendly little cyber-cherubs.  As you’ve correctly assumed I have something  to divulge. So cometh near, as tis’ the season for good cheer, and Christmas themed email marketing campaigns that woo audiences with a festive selection of treats.

Once again we got our marketing, email and promotional heads on to perform yet more noble deeds for wonderfully original outdoor toy specialist Fun4Kids. We sent a mailout last week devoted to Christmas gift ideas, adorned with festivities – and let me tell thee, it was a right old success. Read More…

 

Firefox Wins Over Web Developers

News, Web Development by Tom

We noticed some rather interesting statistics on the 4th Nov (the day The Pixel’s Blog featured on Smashing Magazine’s homepage, in case you’d forgotten…).

66% of users on the day were using Mozilla Firefox compared to only 8% using Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. To put this in context (just in case you’re wondering), IE usual commands a 65% market share of the web in total, and Firefox usually around 26%*. Read More…