I’m so excited to announce the launch of a new website for client Sweet Sips Colostrum Spoons! Sweet Sips Colostrum Spoons helps birthing parents breastfeed their newborns with the help of colostrum spoons, ensuring that the baby gets enough nutrition during the crucial early moments of life. I just love the way this site came out, and I know you will too!
Foundation’s first client
Mary, owner of Sweets Sips Colostrum Spoons, was the very first official client of Foundation Web Design & Development. She reached out locally looking for help with her current ecommerce setup, and thus began our relationship! It all started with trying to untangle the massive headache that was multiple buyouts and mergers that split Mary’s domains and site into a variety of places. Half of Mary’s domains were on Vistaprint, another half with a third party, her site was with Wix but needed to be accessed by logging into Vistaprint, and she didn’t know who she was paying where for what. We got everything sorted out, figured out who she was paying and what to cancel, and then Wix x Vista wanted to charge her $300 for a year of her website, plus all of the inflated fees she was paying for domains elsewhere. We came up with a plan of attack.
Bringing it home
One thing I believe in is ease-of-use for clients. I want them to be able to do it themselves, but ultimately hire me to do it so they don’t have to. I want to be able to provide them the tools and knowledge to take things further on their own, so they don’t have to feel like they’re permanently hitched to me as the one person who can do things for them. We all know that relationships that start out great can sometimes sour over time, and I don’t want to make a severance of such a relationship a big to-do for anyone involved. I’m constantly forward thinking for the client, and the next dev down the line. In order to do this, I also try to get a client’s items in one dedicated spot so they don’t have any question about what they’re paying for or why. So with Mary, that’s what I did; I brought all of her domains, hosting, and her website into one spot, so she’ll always know what she’s paying for, how much, and when.
Oh, yes, of course I also built for her a very snazzy WordPress CMS site! We rebranded the fiery yellow-orange-red palette of her old logo into something a little more soft and indicative of the sweet nature of her product. I echoed this throughout the site with rounded corners for buttons and borders, soft gradations, and avoiding using black. What we end up with an ultra modern site and a great shopping experience for all of Mary’s future customers.
Best of all, we connected her shop to PirateShip for easy shipping, Stripe for taking payments, and PayPal for taking one-click payments. These tools make things so much easier and I was happy to show Mary how to use them all to make her life a little easier and save money along the way!
Take a look at the Sweet Sips website. I hope Mary continues to grow her wonderful business and help birthing parents feed their newborns/infants with confidence.