Manchester Safety

Project Overview

Manchester Safety came to me to build their online shop. They'd already chosen the platform, Joomla (a CMS, the content management system that runs the site and lets their team edit it without touching code), and they knew their customers were mostly shopping on their phones, so it mattered that the whole thing worked on mobile first; after all, ecommerce is their business.

Joomla gives you a foundation and leaves the building to you. So I wrote the theme from scratch rather than start from a marketplace template, which kept the design theirs and left nothing surplus riding along from someone else's product. I wrote the CSS just for this site and kept it lean, because their customers are shopping on phone connections and a lighter page arrives sooner.

I got the full order flow working end to end, browse through to purchase, payment, confirmation and dispatch notification, and tested each step. I also pared the Joomla admin back to the parts the team would actually use, since Joomla ships with a lot of configuration a shop owner never needs to see.

What Manchester Safety got is a shop set up around how they run, on the platform they chose, and a codebase that's straightforward to look after.