and our awesome clients!
Ok ok ok. These aren’t quite the Webbys, but everyone loves to be recognized…even the hard working humans at Pod1. So without further adieu….[drum roll please]…and the winners, from the 2012 Communicator Awards are:
Gold Award of Excellence: Salvatore Ferragamo
Gold Award of Excellence: eloquii by The Limited
Silver Award of Distinction: Maje USA
Silver Award of Distinction: Echo
Pod1 is happy to be hosting the Magento E-commerce Forum in New York this month.
So if you’re a merchant looking to upgrade your e-commerce platform and want to know about Pod1 and/or Magento, then make sure you register for an invite.
As well as Pod1 and Magento, there’ll be presentations from two of our lovely clients, Echo and Erno Laszlo (launching soon), as well as from analytics partner jirafe.
Long term hosting partner Rackspace will also be at the event to answer any hosting questions you may have.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Pod1 is pleased to announce the launch of Echo:
Spanning almost 90 years, the Echo brand is synonymous for it’s use of color and patterns in everything it does.
Pod1 was tasked with creating a next generation e-commerce site for Echo. The brief was to enhance the brand experience online, improve the customer journey and upgrade the e-commerce platform.
Working closely with the brand, our UX and interaction designers created an innovative, layered navigational structure to the site, mirroring today’s touchscreen App experiences.
The site was also built using an adaptive layout so no matter how large or small your screen, you’ll get a great visual experience.
The same page on a wider screen:
As well as gloves, scarves and accessories, the site also caters to the Home category:
Other sections on the site include an editorial section:
A gift guide:
and brand story:
The techie bit: site was built on the Magento Enterprise platform as well as WordPress. Hosting is via the cloud at Rackspace.
Pod1 is proud to announce the latest release of of the Salvatore Ferragamo trunkshow, featuring the innovative outfit-builder application that allows customers to quite literally style themselves.
Working closely with the Ferragamo team, Pod1 delivered an end-to-end process, from high-end photography, through to design and technology implementation.
This launch follows the success of the original site that was delivered in time for SS11 Fashion Week.
The techie bit: the site was built on the Magento platform (surprise surprise!), with extensive custom development to implement the style yourself functionality.
Read more about it here (via Luxury Daily)..
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The Maje e-boutique was launched as part of the bigger launch strategy for the brand as it enters the US market and opens a number of stores on the east coast of America, and ultimately nationwide.
Maje is the success story of a “fashion child”, Judith Milgrom, who was introduced to the art of crafting garments at a very early age. Judith created the name “Maje” as a combination of the initials of the names of her loved ones.
The site focuses on the simplicity of the brand, allowing the design of the products to speak for themselves.
As well as the shopping pages, the site features a store locator, look book, press section and news area.
The techie bit: The site was developed on the Magento Enterprise platform for e-commerce functionality, and WordPress to manage editorial. Pod1 also hosts the site on it’s ecommerce optimized, cloud-based infrastructure.
After 25 years of selling her designer collections in Nordstrom and other upscale department stores and specialty boutiques across the country, Carol Anderson decided to bring her expertly designed clothing directly to the customer in the form of the ultimate personal shopping experience!
Pod1 NY worked closely with the client over a 10 week period to deliver a fresh new site that was in-line with their more mature customer base.
The site was built with simplicity in mind providing the end-user with a stress-free user experience.
The site’s objective was not only to showcase the fashion, but also provide the brand with a voice.
Pod1 also implemented it’s first iteration of the hugely popular, and effective Outfit Builder for this launch.
UPDATE: And the people have spoken..take a look at the customer feedback on Facebook.
Last week, W³ announced the winning entries out of over 3,000 submissions. For the 4th year running, Pod1 walked away with a few awards…nice.
Harvey Nichols won Best in Show (category: Fashion) and Silver (category: Shopping)
Diamond in the Rough won Gold (category: Fashion)
Smythson won Silver (category: Shopping)
Nanette Lepore won Silver (category: Fashion)
Always great to be recognized, and pretty cool to have some shiny statuettes dotted around the office!
A bit about W³: “The W³ Awards honors creative excellence on the web, and recognizes the creative and marketing professionals behind award winning sites, videos and marketing programs.”
Pod1 NY are delighted to be working on 2 exciting French brands launching in the US: Sandro and Maje.
Both brands have a huge following in France, but this is their first foray into the American market. Multiple store openings accross manhattan will run in parallel with the online shops, both currently in production at Pod1.
Read more about these new brands from our friends at WWD:
Magento Enterprise Edition v1.11 was released last week. There are several new features and improvements in this release, including:
One of the most interesting for many is inclusion of RMA processing, allowing customers to initiate a structured and controlled return of unwanted goods. I’ve been through the functionality in the release and created the following presentation about how it works.
Overall the functionality looks very useful, and would be a good starting point for a custom returns process. It’s not clear at present whether there is API integration for this process, allowing RMA requests to be retrieved and updated by other systems using the Magento API, but that is something that could be added quite easily now the core process is in place.
We would generally wait for the first maintenance release of a new version of Magento before rolling it out, but it’s very nice to see this functionality, and I’m sure many Magento users will be implementing it soon.
We’re happy to announce our latest launch for Salvatore Ferragamo – the pre-order online only trunk show!
This important digital initiative marks the brand’s first venture into RTW (Ready-to-Wear)) e-commerce which will be available for pre-order on the site for a limited three week time period.
Unique in the luxury digital sector, Ferragamo’s online trunk show features a user-friendly styling tool where customers can create their own looks by mixing and matching pieces from the actual runway looks as designed by Creative Director Massimiliano Giornetti.
All user created looks are of course socially shareable through Facebook and Twitter.
Pod1 worked closely with the Ferragamo team throughout the entire process, from concept development to photography, design and final technical implementation.
Read more here:
Luxury Daily – Ferragamo breaks RTW ecommerce trunk show
Watch the Style Yourself video:
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