Making a hobby work!

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Sometimes a project comes along that you can really appreciate exactly what the client is trying to achieve. Late last year a potential new client got in touch after finding Big Purple Box via a Google search, a meeting was duly arranged to discuss the new project.

David Holland of Northumbrian Tin Soldier arrived and we got down to business discussing a new venture that would require a business identity, corporate/brochure style website and a eCommerce solution. Fairly standard stuff you might be thinking, but this was different because David Holland is a wargame figure manufacturer and painter and our conversation quickly turned to different figures we had both collected, painted and wargamed with. In a previous life I was wargamer! Pretty quickly we were heading out for a drink to continue the conversation which took in a love of live music and classic rock!

If it wasn't for the pesky bills we all have to pay I'd have probably done this one for free!

Utilising two different open source solutions, one to handle the brochure style elements and ZenCart to handle the eCommerce work began on developing an identity and the two websites.

Although the project turned out to be quite lengthy we arrived at a design solution that matched Davids requirements and was within budget.

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