E-Commerence website design

        Back in the days I used to create and experiment with webpage designs. I even went further, to actually develop some websites, mostly for my personal use or to experiment with source codes. It was a very accommodating experience which widened my knowledge in graphic design and nevertheless I could utilize some of my coding skills.

       Few weeks ago I was asked if I would be able to develop and create e-commerence website. At first the task seemed difficult, because I was never dealing with actual e-shop sites before. The biggest concern I had with actual transaction systems and security of the site, however after reading and researching some articles and available options on the internet I thrown myself in.

First I must say I had big freedom regarding design and development process. Only conditions I had were that it must be:

• simple
• easy to use
• Warehouse type – My client was very specific about this point, forasmuch as at start the website should work as local store and then later it should contain thousands of items. Sort of a transformation from local to wide online warehouse.

There is the latest update of the site: 

Features: 

Additional features:

• Image light box
• Registrations - customer hub
• Reviews / comments
• Payment / delivery systems
• Shop owner custom admin panel
• Sophisticated features for e-commerence shop

       As a base for the site I used OpenCart CMS, forasmuch as its open source (there was absolutely no need to develop the whole new system) and it has easy to use back-end panel for my client. I did change a lot of source code within the PHP, CSS, created template and implemented java scripts. I was experimenting with Joomla and Magento CMS as well however they would be much more complicated for back-end user and content management. Sometimes simpler is better.

My client asked me if I can prepare some concept logos for him. As he is planning to sell electro-components in the future so I came up with these concepts: