Adding a webshop to your site can be a headache, especially if you have a large sales catalog which has to be migrated online. You don’t want your existing site to experience any downtime, and you want customers to find shopping online with you easy and intuitive, while still providing them with the products and information they expect. When Advanced Marine Technologies wanted to consolidate their product catalogs and add a new online store, they came to Gossamer Threads to give them all the functionality they wanted without any hassle or unnecessary change to their workflow. Here’s how we helped AMT make the move into e-commerce smoothly and securely, using Gossamer Links and a custom shopping cart, and implementing a careful and detailed import of AMT’s multiple product catalogs.

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We’ve partnered with Start Local, Australia’s premiere business directory, since their inception, helping them to establish themselves at the head of their market as well as managing their hosting. Recently, Start Local wanted to expand upon the ways in which their usebase interacts with their site in a major way: introducing “gamification” – adding game-like systems of scores and rewards for utilizing their site – to Start Local. Here’s how we added a new dimension of user experience to Start Local…

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Site performance can be a complex issue, with all manner of interdependent factors conflicting and cascading in unexpected ways. When one of our clients’ sites starts experiencing problems which can quickly take a toll on their business, we take a methodical approach, examining all of the components that go into a website’s performance, and enacting a point-by-point plan which addresses front and back end issues. Here’s how we developed a solution for The Student Room, a high-traffic forum which ran into trouble after a routine software upgrade.

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Gossamer Threads has been working with AMEinfo, the premiere Middle Eastern business portal, for ten years. In that time we’ve been their primary technical partner, offering complete web hosting, development, and support services. When AME decided to broaden begin a new initiative, a brand dedicated to helping small and medium startup businesses get established in the United Arab Emirates, they came to us to help ensure that the site design and development would mesh with their existing website, while offering all of the site’s resources in as clear and simple a manner as possible. Here’s how we helped build SMEinfo…

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AMEinfo is the premier Middle Eastern business site, delivering news and other media to over 50,000 visitors per day. Gossamer Threads has been AME’s technical partner since 2002. We’ve developed templates, improved architecture, and upgraded their hosting platform as the site’s grown, helping the site grow and flourish to the point that it was recently sold for $27 million US. After the sale, the new site owners decided they wanted a fresh facelift for the site. Impressed with the role GT had played in AME’s success, they asked us to reinvent the site and create a new AMEinfo.

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