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Official video from ECMOD Awards Ceremony where Loake Shoemakers received the award for the best British menswear brand (in the £5m-£30m category). Sarah Willcocks accepts the award in Loake’s absence. Loake has been making traditional English shoes since 1880. Today, five generations and more than 130 years later, Loake continues to design and produce fine, [Read more]

Solid piece from the legendary Tim Ash about pre-checkout actions to stop people leaving – generally, all under a retailer’s control via content management. 1. Fix On-Site Search 2. Cut Down on Your Navigation Categories 3. Place Trust Symbols Where They’ll Decrease Anxiety 4. Give Visitors a Reason to Act Soon Simple.

This Works (www.thisworks.com)has launched a version of its website optimised for smartphones and other small-screen mobile devices. Visitors from mobile traffic are about 38%, up from 21% a year ago. Whilst iPads are used by 16% of all visitors (and 46% of all “mobile” devices) and sales conversion ratios are higher on iPads, iPhones (at [Read more]

We are extremely pleased to see that our client Atterley Road has been featured on the Magento website as a customer success story. Here are some of the highlights: “Atterley Road recreates the experience of British high street shopping online, blending a unique, hand-picked selection of boutique labels and favorite brands from independent designers. Soon [Read more]

  Screen Pages has released e-commerce benchmark data regarding visitor sources and behaviour, conversions for retail e-commerce websites, for the period Feb-Mar 2013. The businesses indexed are limited to niche brands, generally selling online, via catalogues and stores, with online sales range up to £10m per annum and average order values average £65. The websites [Read more]

We’re excited that the latest version of Magento Enterprise – Magento Enterprise 1.13 – is now available. At time of writing, we have already started three projects using it and were pleased to be on the alpha-test programme. Magento Enterprise is – in our view – the most capable, functionally rich (and now, most popular) [Read more]

Two of Screen Pages’ e-commerce clients – Loake Shoemakers and This Works – were honoured at the ECMOD Direct Commerce awards on 16th April in London. Loake Shoemakers received the award for the best British menswear brand (in the £5m-£30m category) and This Works received the award for Best Exploitation of Technology (for businesses with [Read more]

For niche retailers, onsite search does not play a large part in e-commerce store navigation. When it is used however, it more than pays its way. Screen Pages looked at onsite search usage on 21 e-commerce websites, most of which is a niche retailer selling own-brand goods, including Loake, Finisterre, Christopher Ward, Hush and Dove [Read more]

Great article from E-marketer about mothers’ online shopping habits. “Shoppers have become increasingly comfortable using the smartphone or tablet to browse retailer offerings, look for discounts and compare products—whether on the go or on the couch. For moms especially, who tend to lead shopping and mobile trends, the use of these smart devices may have [Read more]