October 15, 2008

Hello again. It's been a long month here at Needmore, it's more work than you would think cleaning up after our newly adopted pet. It's a good thing our office is large enough, and has an ice machine.

Here's some of what we've been up to.

Stumptown Coffee Roasters

Stumptown Coffee Roasters is synonymous with rare and exquisite coffee, uncompromising attention to detail, and positive relationships with coffee growers.

But I'm sure we don't need to tell you that.

Many months in the making, the all-new Stumptown Coffee Roasters website was built from the ground up to be a coffee fanatic's paradise - every bit as good as the beans they roast and sell. We've collaborated with Stumptown before, on a number of renditions of the website, each time improving on the last. This fresh redesign brings a new look, massive doses of coffee information, and a completely integrated shopping experience. Read more in our three-part blog series about the design process: parts one, two, and three.

And do stay tuned, there's more to come from Stumptown, including even more detail, stunning photography, and more purchasing options.

Boutique Bride

Let us also introduce Boutique Bride, an online wedding sanctuary for stylish brides in the UK. Boutique Bride is centered around their hand-picked wedding and bridal luxuries (necessities, we dare say). Accompanying these sylish offerings is "Kitty" (illustrated by Needmore friend Sujean Rim), the site's writer and wedding planner extraordinaire.

Do not be fooled by the simplicity of presentation. This is a full-featured e-commerce website, based on Magento, complete with customer accounts, product management, inventory and sales tracking, credit card payments, coupon codes and content management (including blogging)!

While it can be a challenge to bring simplicity to such a plethora of features, we're pleased with the marriage of form and function on this project.

Absolut Beauty

And we are also pleased to announce a new site for absolut beauty: photographer, mother, yogi, and design artist.

This is a clean, modern website for a brilliant Long Beach based artist, self-described photographer of people, places and moments. Absolut came to Needmore with an interest in a site with simplicity of navigation, ease of viewing photography without distraction and, of course, the ability to update images.

When you visit the site and focus on nothing but the incredible photography, we know we've done our job.

We'll Be Right Back

We will be out of town until next Tuesday, October 21st. Unfortunately, we'll miss this Friday's grand opening of Saraveza, an awesome new bottle shop and pasty tavern in Northeast Portland.

But you should go.

Thanks

Thanks for listening and for your support. It really wouldn't be any fun without you.

Cheers,
Kandace and Ray