They stock a huge range of  fabrics by leading designers, accessories and notions, as well as patterns and books.

Imaker’s involvment was to design and build a new ecommerce website for them which has increased their turnover and profitability and they are now able to run a loyalty card scheme that accumulates credits with every sale. These credits can then be spent in theitr online shop.

The site is regularly updated and is entirely under the control of Fabrics Plus.

Take a look and let me know what you think.

The website is from Kelly Menzies who is  a transition and wellbeing coach working with Mums to help them through periods of transition or to help them to make changes in their lives!

Kelly will be adding course details and coaching information as soon as it becomes available, so keep an eye on healingmum.co.uk

More content will be added as available because the site is so new. The site contains a slider that runs a slide show of yoga positions. There are details about pregnancy yoga, general yoga, yoga and walking, mums and babies.

Courses are run regularly and a timetable of these is included in the site.

So far, time has only permitted that page to be updated but it does give the original homepage a new lease of life. Now to get to the other pages with the new, fresher look and feel.

We have used a little javascript to make the slide show that is very easy to add and change images used, then used a 3 column approach to delineate our services.  Not bad we think …

Again this morning there was another update. 3,1,1 this time. Ah well, all done now, at least until the next update.

The site will provide a searchable database using names, craft type and areas of the UK. While yet to be officially launched full listings and ads will be free.  You can register using the form in the site to get a listing.

News about crafts and design are also planned. We’re also looking for craft articles. These will be published on the site and allow links and full author accreditation, so please get those coming in.

If you have a craft based website and you want to improve it’s visibility and your search engine ranking then get your application in now.

Initially we looked at the search results and have made a significant difference to the ranking for their key terms.  Over the past couple of weeks we have been adding the new seasons fashions from the leading designers, giving a page to each to show the newest wedding outfits.  There are many stunning images like my favourite one shown here from Condici.

The new pages are doing well, achieving page one listings and climbing.

Personalised search has arrived whether you are logged into the big G or not.

Up until now all you’ve had to do is log out of and run your search.  Those a little more savvy have the excellent firefox plug-in from yoast that still give you a non-personalised search, meaning you should be able to see the listings for a search that everyone else will get.

Not any more!

Take a look at this screenshot -

That all looks ok, I’m at No. 1, but wait, what’s this -

So now we are seeing customised searches based on your previous search and you’ll see this whether ot not you are logged in.  All is not lost though, if you click the view customizations link and then “without these improvements” link you should actually see proper search listings.  Quite what this is about, or what google is up too only time will tell.  But now I can tell everyone I can get their site to position 1, all you have to do is find your site in the search, click it and then do the search again, and as if by magic, your site is no. 1.