Callisti Ltd

Southwest Firewood

Southwest Firewood is a family owned and operated bulk log supplier business based in Parkgate, Dumfries and Galloway.

The business has been in operation since 2007 and is well established in the local area where it started small with chainsaws and axes. It has developed into a modern and sustainable firewood production business with a range of products available online via a WooCommerce online shop installation.

The increased investment in machinery and buildings over the years has added to the range of firewood products that can be ordered and delivered online using familiar secure payment gateways.

Production of kiln dried product has increased with demand for force dried wood continues locally and the business is reducing the carbon footprint which helps toward achieve net zero.

V-Twin Mania

V-Twin Mania is founded on a mail order Harley Davidson parts business that has operated since 2004 in Scotland. The new WooCommerce supported website was successfully migrated from an end-of-life server environment and a legacy ecommerce shop running on an OSCommerce 2.3.* version. This presented some specific challenges in preserving and transferring historical data and product information to a new environment.

This is a simple uncluttered design and makes use of some helpful plug-ins for added functionality such as “FiboSearch – AJAX Search for WooCommerce” and “WooCommerce PDF Invoices & Packing Slips” from the wordpress.org repository.

Tantrum Events

Personalised Balloon Deco Bubbles now for sale online with this WooCommerce-based upgrade to the Dumfries-based Tantrum Events decor provider. This is a revamped responsive WordPress website tailored for tablets and with more emphasis on images being the main focus of the products and services.

The site uses the now familiar EverLightBox and Final Tiles Grid Gallery plug-ins for lightbox support, as well as Instagram Feed to fit with what’s already a work-flow, and Order Delivery Date to help with order pick-ups in the WooCommerce setup.

Lochanview Log Cabins

Migration of another traditional VBScript site to WordPress was always going to happen for this busy and established self catering holiday log cabin website. This website came to life around a bespoke booking system called “Guest Register” and had been kept going on running repairs to cope with various changes brought about by changes in PCI Compliance, changes to payment gateways protocols and changes in how people use the web.

The WordPress site allows for the Hotel Booking plugin functionality for both Log Cabins and unifies two historical systems which had dealt with website content and booking administration separately. The built in iCal feed import/export is able to link with existing third party booking providers.

What helped the transition was the parallel use of the .co.uk and .com domains for email and website respectively. This has now been streamlined but had allowed a convenient environment for testing development of the new site and leaving the previous site able to continue with business.

No more Windows Servers!

Southerness Holiday Cottages

It’s been refreshing to have a run of updates and websites with similar aims, so Southerness Holiday Cottages is very much in-keeping with the Highlight/Mesmerize WordPress theme combination for a user-friendly framework, and the EverlightBox and Final Tiles Grid Gallery for image display.

Another nice simple plug-in is the LoginPress – Customizing the WordPress Login which makes for an identifiable admin “back-of-house” entrance.

The website is a starter site, a “brochure site” if you will, for an existing self-catering property business on the Solway coast of Dumfries and Galloway but this web presencing is now fully within the control of the business. Further developments are now possible to suit the business needs as the channel becomes established.

Remedial Sports Massage in Edinburgh

Recent coffee-shop-based session with Equilibry in Edinburgh resulted in a high-caffeine transfer of ideas, information and procedural learnings. The CyberChimps parallax theme (WordPress) was a good fit and we were able to work through the tasks with 2 tablet devices.

The sports therapy and remedial massage website can now be client-managed with more control and confidence, with pleasing results on phones and tablets (although the parallax effect reverts to static background image on some devices)