Website design needed for fabric retailer. Clean slate project

Shaukat & Company

We are a single shop in London that is a large fabric retailer. We are the kind of shop that any fabric you need, we have or can get it for you. We are a family business and there are only 4 of us. but we have two large floors with rolls of fabric.

We keep personal connection to our customers but we know out shop isnt pretty, its only fabrics! But we know our site looks old fashioned and we want the site to be a reflection of us as well as be more fashionable but also commercial.

Our audience is normally designers and individuals who need fabrics to make clothes etc.

The designers do come from all over the world due to our very large and extensive collection.

The audience are normally fashion designers, housewives, cottage industries. They are looking for fabrics for their home projects up to the high street fashion runways. The site is to be a showcase of not only the range of fabrics, but the quality of them and we are the place to go to for all your needs and we always have alternative options.

The site we have shaukat.co.uk is very old fashioned and out of date. We do not have a logo, brand colours etc.

Feel free to be creative and create something new.

Image presentation is very important. We need a large image area, large thumbs for the swatches etc. See the site now to see what we have.

Create the site as you wish to make the site interesting. Also use JQuery style image presentation to make it interesting. Look at propcom.co.uk for ideas or any other site, but we want to stand out from the normal image slideshow.

We have no assets to give. Go to the current site to take anything you may need.

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The homepage needs to have the navigation on the left (this is a breakdown of all the different types of fabrics we have). The horizontal navigation is about the actual shop and who we are.

We need a
- content area
- news section
- advertising banners area
- registration for newsletters box
- search tools
- account area
-shopping basket area

The rest of the site area to be about swatches of the different fabrics we have.

http://www.shaukat.co.uk

http://www.liberty.co.uk