What We Do

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Tradingzones is our platform for delivering e-commerce solutions. These can be simple websites or integrated business solutions used by online customers or your sales-desk. We have run our own successful online businesses and our focus is streamlining processes and developing sales.

At the heart of these solutions are catalogues with rapid search, rich data, flexible payment options, stock integration, order tracking and optimisation for search engines. Our sites are built on a Drupal content management platform, which allows you to update site content in-house and they can be hosted externally or on your own server. Please call us if you want to chat.


Burdens

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Burdens is a UK based company with over 50 depots throughout the UK and overseas with over 1,100 employee stakeholders. The company supplies products and services that have a direct impact on all our daily activities. These include utilities, infrastructure, construction and the environmental sectors.

The Burdens website features include:

Depot Locator - Depots are central to how Burdens conducts its business, therefore easy accessability to depot information was vital for the new website. Depots can now be found using a google map, a depot listing and the Depot Locator feature which allows users to simply enter their postcode, town or depot name and be automatically re-directed to the most relevant Burdens depot.

News - A live Twitter feed located in the top right of every page allows users to keep posted to updating news. Tags, listed below news articles identify keywords from the news articles and allows users to view other similar articles using the same tags.

Sectors - Using our sectors page you can quickly see the sectors in which Burdens operates with relevant supporting information.

Careers - Job Vacancies can now be simply applied for online with applicants able to state their relevant experience, upload CVs and details. Burdens can easily manage the job vacancies, simple date fields allow Deadlines and Unpublish dates to be stated even with little computer skills.

The Content Management System (CMS) platform allows Burdens to easily create, review and publish content, add new users and effectively manage online transactions.

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Ecomerchant

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Ecomerchant are a leading supplier of ethically sourced, sustainable building materials accessible to all at affordable prices.

The Ecomerchant website is a next generation ecommerce site, offering rapid searching, order and payment facilities, order tracking, and reporting. Our Content Management System (CMS) platform allows users even with little computer skills, to easily create, review and publish content, add new users and effectively manage online transactions.

Ecomerchant sell a wide range of products, including bespoke products unavailable to buy online. Working with Ecomerchant we developed a ‘quote’ system to facilitate online quotation requests, allowing customers to add both bespoke and non bespoke items. This basket could then be saved and returned to at a later date or sent directly to Ecomerchant for a quote.

Our mega menu allows customers to navigate down three levels by simply hovering over a top menu item. Therefore reducing customers time spent navigating multiple pages to find and buy an item. Ecomerchant also uses social media with integrated RSS feeds automatically pushing news and blog items to the appropriate channels.

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Enviromesh Fencing

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Enviromesh are a leading supplier of wire based retention and fencing solutions. The Enviromesh range of fencing systems includes Temporary, Permanent and Agricultural products.

The Enviromesh Fencing website is an intuitive catalogue site which is both visually engaging and simple to navigate. The Content Management System (CMS) platform allows users to easily create, review and publish content, add new users and manage permissions.

Product pages are designed balancing content with minimal loading speeds. Tabs holding different product information, keep pages aesthetically clean, information rich and easily navigable.

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Pumpac

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Pumpac is a manufacturer of pumping systems for the potable water, waste water and irrigation markets unique in the pump set manufacturing business with experience as both an end user and designer of systems.

Pumpac requested a web site that would effectively display their technical product range. Working with Pumpac to understand their product rich content requirements Trading Zones developed a Content Management System (CMS) tailored to their requirements.

The site information architecture allows users to drill down to products either via a quick linked menu or central image and text previewed menu for visitors less familiar with the product range.

Tabbed product pages emulate a multi-page structure which effectively deliveries a wealth of technical information in a user friendly and aesthetically clean layout. The user friendly ethos is echoed in the CMS for administrators empowering Pumpac to continually update the web site with content.

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PV Calculator

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The Solar PV Calculator is a tool that can be used to estimate the amount of energy you could produce, potential income and savings over time, which a photovoltaic panel could generate.

Taking the angle and direction of your roof, and the type of PV panel and your installation choices, the PV Calculator can estimate carbon savings, installation costs and your 25 year overall savings.

Taking a spreadsheet of calculations and formulas, the PV Calculator was developed into a module that can easily be installed into various websites and configured using the Content Management System for an instant online calculation.

PV Claculator application on Ecomerchant store

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