Bungalow5 is a state-of-the-art online décor and design store for an existing Danish blog of the same name. The blog is frequently updated, has great articles on the subject, and receives visitors from all around the world. As such, the owners of the blog wanted to add an online store to sell high-quality products to their customers.
Since Bungalow5 is a blog on décor and design, the store must reflect these themes via its design. Hence, giving the online store a clean, thematic and attractive design was a major part of the project.
Since a lot of users may access the store on their smartphone or tablet, it was necessary to make the site fully responsive across all the platforms. We used Bootstrap to achieve this in an easy and efficient manner.
The product management system and admin dashboard must be robust and easy to use. This was achieved using the Woocommerce plugin with WordPress.
Since the main payment method for the new Bungalow5 store was going to be Paypal, we integrated it into the site. We made it very easy for users to make payments using their Paypal accounts.
The store posed challenges in the frontend as well as the backend. The frontend was more of a creative challenge than a technical one because it needed to be designed in accordance with the theme of the blog which itself deals with décor and design. Moreover, the store needed to be fully responsive across all platforms. The main challenge in the backend was to make the product management system user-friendly, easy to manage and robust
The first step was the choice of the CMS. We went for the Woocommerce plugin of WordPress because it is a solid plugin and we’re extremely familiar with it. Moreover, the design is completely responsive and is in full harmony with the overall theme of the site. Finally, the admin dashboard provides extensive functionalities, yet is very easy to use.
Bungalow5 store is now up and running. The site has a classy look and feel which reflects its objectives very well. The interface is very easy to use for clients as well as admins. We’ve made sure that the management of products on the site is simple, yet robust and secure.
We used the Woocommerce plugin, with WordPress as the primary CMS. Of course, we had to customize the code to fit our objectives perfectly, but Woocommerce made our jobs a lot easier.
Like many other projects at Codewing, Bungalow5 owes its responsiveness and clean design to Bootstrap. The store is fully responsive and provides a consistently straightforward, clean interface regardless of the user’s device.
Woocommerce is a WordPress plugin that allows us to conveniently turn a simple WordPress site into a fully functioning online store. Moreover, the plugin provides added security and scalability to the store.
We used Google Analytics to track the activities of customers on Bungalow5. This tool allows the admins of the site to monitor various statistics about the traffic coming in. Consequently, they can decide future business models based on these numbers and graphs.
Paypal is the most common payment gateway for ecommerce. It’s used worldwide and is extremely convenient as well as secure. We’ve integrated it into the site so that users can use their Paypal accounts to make payments.
