I just wanted to say bienvenue to Tim Halbert and Alan Ip, the newest prodigies to join the blubolt team.

Both Alan and Tim are fresh from the University of Bath, and bring with them a wealth of experience and knowledge in web development.

As a result of our growth over the last few months, our once roomy office is beginning to find itself somewhat cramped - soon enough it’ll be time to start expanding through the building!

We’re pleased to announce the launch of Bloomsbury Store’s new website design.

Focusing on a cleaner, crisper look, and an easier to navigate interface, it’s now even easier for customer’s to find gift ideas!

Bloomsbury Store, along with 2 other leading online retailers, will shortly be powered by bluCommerce (not yet installed on the new site) - with improved features such as 1-page checkout and more personalised my-account area, the site will undergo yet another major enhancement very soon!

Click here to visit the site. 

July’s issue of UK magazine, .net, features a mention of one of our local clients, The San Francisco Fudge Factory. On the topic of niche-market ecommerce sites, San Francisco Fudge Factory’s design is described as ‘playing to the comfort of candy and carries a theme without being over the top’.

Visit the site here - you may also get some gift ideas for Father’s Day which is just around the corner!

A warm welcome to our newest recuit, Trevor! Along with new-designer Amy, May sees the arrival of 2 new full-time blubolt members.

Trevor arrives with a strong background in computer science and programming - he’ll be heavily involved in both our ecommerce and web-application development and we’re excited to have his as part of the team

The next few weeks will see the launch of our new ecommerce platform, bluCommerce. Our team has worked hard these past few months to develop what we believe to be a major player in the ecommerce-software arena.

Each month will see new and constantly refined functionality developed, but the initial release includes such features as:

• Streamlined 1-page checkout: customers are able to complete their transaction quickly and easily with no page reloads, edit their shopping basket contents at any time without having to re-enter their details, integrated credit card processing, choose to include new features such as gift-wrapping, and much more.
• Customer support system: Registered users can open support tickets about past orders, request to return products and ask general questions right from their my-account area. The admin interface includes powerful ticket-management and reporting to make managing customer service a breeze.
• AJAX enhancements: fewer page reloads with AJAX driven product listings and product searching and sorting, product quick-views, instant currency conversions, quick add-to-cart, and lots more.
• Product images: improved interface for customers to view multiple product images, and easier administration tools.
• Improved discount and product promotion system
• Improved sales reporting: including the ability to keep track of all your recent order history with the new admin-dashboard, and analyse sales and customer statistics easily

To request a demo and test-drive the system yourself, please get in touch today!

Bloomsbury store extends it’s arsenal of websites with the launch of a new mini site, My School Badges. The site, as you would guess by it’s name, sells nostalgic school badges but also a range of old-favourite sweets and lollies. Run by two young budding entrepreneurs, Felix and James, we wish them the best of luck with their little project and we’ll be on hand to give them any tips and advice!