A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

Project Basic Ski Wear www.basicskiwear.com

Features Logo Design
Key Product Icons
Yahoo! Store Design

Notes Just as a skier desires a clean snowfall, a customer on Basic Ski Wear will want a clean navigation to find the warmest ski gear available. Solid Cactus worked with Basic Ski Wear to create a highly focused shopping experience from the start, featuring a select number of products from the main homepage graphic. Bright orange helps pop out price and free ground shipping, while Solid Cactus designers maintained a simple navigation in icy blues.

Project Bobby Schandra www.bobbyschandra.com

Features Share This Click to enlarge Yahoo! Store Design

Notes As a fashion designer who has graced the covers of magazines and TV screens, Bobby Shandra required a site that would appeal to women who possess the great taste. Solid Cactus shined the spotlight on a fashion first attitude by utilizing white space, simple color palates and large lifestyle themed images. Rather than focusing on the background or navigation, the focus was drawn to the product, for a crisp clean appearance.

Project Caddisfly www.caddisflyshop.com

Features Flash sequence banner Yahoo! Store Design

Notes CaddisFly looked to monopolize on their highly successful blog following and steady traffic with an online store. This Davey Award winning design encourages sales with calls-to-action, the bright orange contrasting with the muted river stone background, river blues navigation and header. Solid Cactus team continued work after the initial release, to later add the email list sign up and blog feed.

Project The Toy Hunt www.thetoyhunt.com

Features Click to enlarge

Notes Graphic illustrations and bold colors jump out at parents on a trek for the perfect party supply or toy. Children will be amused with the rotating animal cartoons on the homepage. Solid Cactus designers created a specialized page for an “all product” display of a theme to allow customers to add multiple products of the same theme at once to the cart.

Project Black Forest Decor www.blackforestdecor.com

Features Sequence Banner, Expanding Menu, Dynamic Paging, Tabular Product Information, Checkout Manager Design, Cross Sell

Notes BlackForest Decor is a top 500 company, with five stores on the Yahoo! platform. It is one of the first Solid Cactus stores integrated with Adobe Scene 7 which allows for an enhanced image viewer- giving an up close and personal look at products before they make it to a customer's cart.

Project Cadeau www.cadeauonline.com

Features Sequence Banner, Product Scroller, Cascading Menu, Free Shipping Countdown, Dynamic Paging, Click to Enlarge with Multiple Images, Cross Sell

Notes This bachorette party retailer wanted a site that was PG rated, fun and feminine- even if the fun had by customers might cross the PG line. The flirty paisley framed site uses varying hues and shades of pink. Using the many innovative Solid Cactus eCommerce features, a clean and easy shopping experience for party needs is provided.

Project Frigidaire www.frigidairecanadastore.com

Features Tabular Product Information, Dynamic Paging, Click to Enlarge with Multiple Images, Cross Sell

Notes This clean, easy to navigate site reflects Frigidaire's commitment to easy to use appliances and powerful cleaning products. The Solid Cactus team translated the entire site, including the front page banners into French. The French site is accessed with the click of a prominent button for ease of reading for international customers of this Canadian site.

Project Rock Gear www.rockgearshop.com

Features Click to enlarge
Recently viewed items
Yahoo! Store Design

Notes For those about to rock, the energy, sound and attitude greets visitors to the Rock Gear site, which sells lights that play along with the popular Guitar Hero game. The site not only screams rockstar but increases brand enforcement and product recognition from the watermarked “HexoLight” at header of the page. Stock photos and custom illustrations back up the party and gaming attitude for a rockin' header.

Project DNR Sports www.dnrsports.com

Features Sequence Banner, Product Scroller, Cascading Menu, Dynamic Paging, Click to Enlarge with Multiple Images, Cross Sell

Notes Solid Cactus designers hit the bullseye with the DNR Sports site with simple imagery, a faded camouflage background pattern, in contrast to the bold hunting greens and browns, lends the spotlight to the products and sequence banners. By trusting their Solid Cactus team advice, DNR Sports wisely utilizes Solid Cactus eCommerce features, helping to present nearly 7,000 products in an orderly manner.

Project Dream Body Weight Loss www.dreambodyweightloss.com

Features Sequence Banner, Product Scroller, Dynamic Paging, Click to Enlarge with Multiple Images, Cross Sell

Notes The competitive market of Dream Body and limited list of products gave Dream Body Weight Loss more than reason enough to improve upon their old site with a professional design and gain more back end control. With the high success of their first site, Solid Cactus designed not just one, but three more eCommerce sites for team at Dream Body Weight Loss.

Project Margarita Shack www.margaritashack.com

Features Product Scroller
Dynamic Paging
Click to Enlarge with Multiple Images
Cross Sell

Notes Margarita Shack, with a picturesque background looking more like a beach sign than an eCommerce store, wanted something a little out of the ordinary. This was the first store design on the Solid Cactus eCommerce platform and features many of the first features introduced to the platform including ]Product Scroller' and 'Click to Enlarge' with multiple images, letting customers see the drink they're about to buy.

Project Sundance Vacations www.sundancevacations.com

Features

Notes It's easy to get excited about Sundance Vacations, as one of Pennsylvania's fastest growing travel companies, this bright and sunny site encourages visitors to start planning exciting trips away from the day to day drag. After researching competitors and the vacation industry as a whole, Solid Cactus designers built a site using powerful imagery to bring an emotional response to the site and company look.