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Website of the Month
Posted on Dec 4
 November's Website of the Month goes to Isabelle Blondiau, who created www.isabee.co.uk This website has been chosen for its sleek and appealing look – not to mention it's well planned approached means it's to navigate around. Congratulations Isabee...your website is brilliant!! |
"It all began by when trying to create interesting clothes for my children to play in and with. I then found that their friends wanted some too and I soon realised there was a demand. Just about everything I sell is handmade, which has been designed to look and feel magical to provide a broad scope of creative play. I was really excited about setting up Isabee, as I could be creative and throw myself into the thing I love doing. I also really hope to fire the imagination of both children and parents with original and inspiring clothes and dressing up. My Mr Site website is a great shop window. I feel it is essential to have an online presence and its invaluable to sell my products with the click button. With ongoing promotions isabee.co.uk now gets regular traffic and has generated sales throughout the year, not just at peak times, like Christmas." |
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October website of the Month
Posted on Oct 29
We want to inspire you all with a great example of an online shop! Our Website of the Month for October was created by Chris Hackman and as you'll see, it shows the standard of what can be achieved with a Mr Site box and a bit of creativity!
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Mr Site website of the month
Posted on Aug 30
This month we were looking for a website that demonstrated a great use of branding! So our Website of the Month, created by Robert Arvidsson, has been chosen not only because of their professional look and feel but because of their brilliant branding which is consistent throughout the entire website.
"Wood Alchemy designs and creates 3D visualisations and renderings, so it's important for us to be able to show the detail and quality of our images online – Mr Site is great for that. And having a strong brand identity is also really important to us as it gives prospective clients a flavour of what our company is about...plus they remember it. We have created a professional site that we can easily update without having to rely on a design agency to do it for us. We have also gained more client's through our website."
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Website of the Month (May 2009)
Posted on May 1
www.akalico.co.uk
Akalico retails contemporary handmade Fair Trade sterling silver jewellery, produced by skilled artisans in economically developing countries. Founder, Lorraine Booth, even designs some of the pieces herself and the jewellery is created to Buddha Dharma quality – meaning the ability to bestow timeless and immediate results. Akalico is a twice award-winning business, supported by the Prince's Trust.
www.nobuntu.com
The Andean Crafts website was founded by market-trader Iain Ramsbottom. Along with his British/Ecuadorian family, Iain purchases crafts and textiles directly from the indigenous artisans in the Andes Mountains. Andean Crafts are particularly proud of their ethnic clothing range and specialise in alpaca wool.
www.andeancrafts.co.uk
Nobuntu sells products, gifts and accessories all sourced either directly from Fair Trade producers or through other suppliers who follow Fair Trade guidelines. Products range from homeware and greeting cards to bags, silver jewellery and fine (vegetarian friendly) silk scarves. The website was set up by 30 year-old Magali Heyberger, who after spending some time in South Africa, was inspired by the beautiful, original and quality crafts produced within townships.
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Website of the Month (Apr 2009)
Posted on Apr 2
www.PracticalCycles.com
To celebrate last month's WWF Earth Hour (28th March), Mr Site has awarded Practical Cycles WOTM for its green credentials. Practical Cycles are one of the first companies to bring the unique 'longbike' concept to the UK. Commonly known as a cargo bike, longbikes are in essence a normal bike with a longer wheelbase that allows the rider to can carry more than a normal bike. Longbikes can accommodate boxes, bags, shopping, children and adults – sometimes all at once! Practical Cycles is also planning to launch its very own brand of cyclewear later in the year... so get on your bike and watch this space.
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Website of the Month (Feb 2009)
Posted on Feb 4
www.CreativeCharlie.com
This week in the UK it was all about snow, snow, snow! Isn't it great when too much snow means a day off from work? And with the schools closed, it's nice to spend extra time with the kids. But you gotta keep those little angels occupied! Here's where Creative Charlie comes in. Children love to make and create stuff. Creative Charlie is all about helping them to nurture their artistic streaks, learn to enjoy creativity and to have fun! Their beautiful art and craft project boxes are a great environmentally friendly, cost-effective way of giving your kids some arty fun. They can paint their own t-shirts, make their own hats and jewellery and draw and paint to their heart's content.
www.PoemsWithLove.co.uk
With Valentines day fast approaching, are you searching for a unique gift for your loved one? How about a handwritten love poem in calligraphy? Visit www.poemswithlove.co.uk and calligrapher Claire will write a favourite poem, a wedding reading, song lyrics or any other text in beautiful calligraphy for your loved one. Claire has had years of experience and works on over one hundred calligraphy commissions every year. Her work has been featured on TV and she has several celebrity wedding calligraphy orders on her rather impressive CV! It seems that creating calligraphy is not Claire's only talent – her website is stunning too!
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Website of the Month (Jan 2009)
Posted on Jan 6
www.Soccertastic.co.uk
A website to warm the cockles of your heart and inspire you to shift those extra Xmas pounds. These young Princes Trust entrepreneurs set up the SoccerTastic Team and Individual Academy© to provide a professional and personal 1 to 1 football coaching service for girls and boys, men and women of all ages. Based in Hertfordshire in the UK, they aim to get young people off the streets, and to get people of all ages fit, active, healthy. Good work lads!
www.TheRetroSweetShop.com
If you want to say "wellies" to New Year's Resolutions and start 2009 in the same way you ended 2008, by stuffing your face with sweets and chocolates, why not pay a visit to the fabulous Retro Sweet Shop?
Here you will find a tasty selection of some of the best retro sweet classics like Shrimps, Flying Saucers, Space Dust, Wham bars, Sherbet Pips and loads more! It's the best place to find traditional sweets, just like your old-fashioned sweetshop, but online. Woolworths may be no more, but you can still pick and mix from your living room on this beautifully laid out and colourful website.
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Website of the Month (Dec 2008)
Posted on Dec 3
www.MollyCotton.co.uk
One of Mr Site's favourite websites... offers a fab selection of products, all sourced in the Cotswolds, UK! Buy your pressies here...
www.ChristmasDaysOut.co.uk
As the name suggests, a great online resource if you're stuck for things to do with your kids this Christmas in the UK.
www.EmmaFerguson.co.uk
Such a cool site! Whoever said crafting is old-fashioned simply HAS to check this UK site out. It's a-m-a-z-i-n-g!
www.FateUK.com
FATE is a charity which aims to provide underprivileged children in the developing world with a good education. Their ethical gifts make great pressies.
www.KissyChristmas.com
This unique UK range of crocheted and knitted Christmas products would make stunning gifts.
www.EcoBears.com
These award-winning, earth-friendly ecobears are born in Tarragona, Spain. As the name sounds, they are made using totally natural fibres and recycled materials.
www.HeartOnYourSleeve.com.au
This Aussie Mr Site customer is totally geared up for Christmas gift-giving this year. If you're stuck for something special, how about a personalised piece of jewellery?
www.DreamofSilver.com
An exclusive UK range of wearable, chic sterling silver jewellery for fun loving, independent women.
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Website of the Month (Nov 2008)
Posted on Nov 1
www.AngelsWithDirtyFacesUK.com
This month's WOTM has been chosen by Mr Site legend, Nadia and with Christmas just around the corner, we all know where she'll be doing her shopping this year. Nadia says she loves that the website content is fresh, there are new products added every week, it's a range of products to suit all budgets, the site is well laid out and the stock has been well photographed.
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Website of the Month (August 2008)
Posted on Aug 3
www.LadiesInTheRed.co.uk
Don't worry boys (and Staffies called Buster) -- this Site is as relevant for men as it is for women, even though the name might not make you think so. LITR is a really useful online source of expert advice relating to money matters, debt management, bank accounts and personal finance. Set up by Katie Edwards in 2007, Katie is an expert on debt management. We hope no Mr Site customer will ever need to seek Katie's advice but if you do, you now know where to go!
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Website of the Month (July 2008)
Posted on Jul 1
www.BabyGuardians.co.uk
We love this website just for its sheer usefullness. Any parent, guardian or simply anyone who looks after babies will know just how difficult it is to keep those little bundles of joy out of harm's way. This site showcases many useful tools and gadgets at such reasonable prices, you'll wonder how you ever survived without them.
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Website of the Month (June 2008)
Posted on Jun 4
www.OliveandMoss.com
What we like about this Mr Siter is that each page is visually rich and interesting. Though all the products sold at Olive and Moss are cool and quirky, the overall design and layout of the site is clear, straight-forward, functions well and easy to navigate around. The whole site functions really well, the content is fresh and updated often.
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