Charilaos Stavrakis

Creating a high-end e-shopping experience to reflect a local household leader Charilaos Stavrakis, is one of the leaders in selling household brands in Cyprus. With an extensive collection of quality decorative products at the best value for money, they are most well known for their vast variety of carpets and flooring of all ranges. Being an old and very established business, to-date they were very much traditionally oriented and felt the need to venture in the digital space. So, they entrusted BLEND to redesign and redevelop their website. They selected a high-end creative look to reflect the caliber of their business through an e-shop approach, fully integrated with their stock-control system.

Our design team put all their creativity to work to create a high-end design with elegant and slick but subtle animations. We created a unique layout which is fully customized. The objective here was to inspire and transpose you to the elite shopping experience of Charilaos Stavrakis, but digitally. We applied a mobile friendly e-commerce approach on the new website, as nowadays the trend is mobile first when shopping online. For this very reason the shopping experience is never compromised irrespective of the device you are entering the Charilaos Stavrakis shop online. Likewise, we paid particular attention to the menu, and the prominent items while balancing the animations with static images. Which is why we managed to deliver an equally engrossing experience. To make sure the website was e-commerce ready it involved complicated development and numerous hours of coding. We developed custom galleries and sliders on the front-end. We additionally fully integrated the e-shop with their internal stock system. This involved connecting with their database and reflect a variety of different product categories, collections, sizes and materials to make it as user friendly as possible. Thus, the client now has the ability to upload and integrate a selection of images associated with each product as a gallery. Furthermore, the e-shop is CMS driven for every part of the content. Last but not least, we developed the responsive design in all resolutions to deliver a seamless online shopping experience irrespective of device.