Original Style

This phase included two bespoke product page templates (based on manual and api driven product data), plus showroom specific pages (again api driven) to showcase the businesses eight UK Showrooms, plus their partner & retailer showroom pages. This enabled Original Style to showcase 3000+ products across 3 storefronts: UK, US & EU.

In order to allow maximum flexibility for the in-house marketing team, we set about creating a flexible navigation structure, supplemented by a series of widgets that allow the client to easily add, update and customise as required. In addition, the site needed to integrate with the clients PIM (Product Information Management) system to manage and populate their data easily.

In addition to the design & build process, we also had to integrate the clients PIM so that real time data could be shared with the new site and other existing channels.

Absolute acted as technical lead and offered guidance to the clients in-house development team, regarding the information architecture of the tech stack. This resulted in several bespoke api endpoints being created to display Showroom specific data from a third party (PIM) to display within Magento.

In addition, Original Style had a specific request to show heavy pricing customisation, e.g. multiple price points to display either by unit, Sq. Metre, Linear metre or sometimes both! This meant the pricing attributes had to be shown in a number of places, PLP & PDP as well as within two types of bespoke product pages, manually added VFT (Virtual Products) as well as api driven (configurable & simple products).

Last but no means least, Absolute created over 400 bespoke SEO friendly Configurable urls to show both parent and child products alike by injecting both colour and size variables into the url product structure e.g https://www.originalstyle.com//ci-000268_residence_botanical_fruit_on_papyrus.html?colour=pear-on-papyrus, plus we redirected over 15,000 URLs in order to maintain SEO continuity for the new site.

The flexibility that M2 Open Source offers allows for a seamless integration of product data, plus beautifully designed content pages, whilst also showcasing the overall strength of Original Style as they continue to grow as a business.