As we settle into our spanky new office, the next exciting new event is our wonderful new website! As Joomla specialists, it would be rude not to continue using this fantastic platform to launch our new website. With Joomla 1.6 just around the corner, these are exciting times!

Our new website will be launching mid-late July and will bring with it more hosting plan choices and an exciting addition to our portfolio of services. If you are a Magento ecommerce user, this will be of particular interest to you. For those who are not familiar with Magento, it’s one of the fastest growing and most popular ecommerce platforms around today.

If you are looking to take the leap from running an eBay shop to your own website, then why not drop in and see us and talk to us about how Magento can work for you.  Magento can work for you whether you are selling physical items, digital downloads, in just one country, or require several different shopfronts for different geographical locations. You can issue vouchers, discount codes, apply tiered or special pricing, hold sales for limited periods and much more. Add to this detailed sales reporting, flexible shipping rates configuration and compatibility with all major payment gateways, and you are left with an extremely powerful online sales tool.

Need to know more? Drop us a line, or come and see us for a coffee and a chat!

As of 1st July 2010 USP has moved to new offices at Gosport Business Centre on Frater Gate Business Park in Gosport Hampshire.

This move represents the next rung on the ladder for the company and will see the addition of several new services and planned expansion through into 2011.

Feel free to drop in and see us for a coffee & chat about how we can help you to maximise your online potential!

Another April launch from USP is www.oakleyturf.com. We have been working with Oakley Turf to completely re-design their existing outdated website. The aim of the project was to give the website a fresh new look, while improving it’s search engine friendliness, and increase sales enquiries.

Oakley Turf Website

The new Oakley Turf website was created with the Joomla Content Management System.

The website features an updated turf calculator function and carries links to Oakley Turfs Wordpress and Twitter pages.

Marketing Manager Kieran Phelan says they have been impressed with the service offered by USP Web Solutions:

“The team at USP have been fantastic. I am not a techie so I value the fact they can explain complex website decisions in plain English for me.

Thanks to the changes they made to www.oakleyturf.com, my conversions have increased 4 fold, traffic is up 25% and I have a website to be proud of.

We asked for a clean, simple website with strong calls to action. USP have more than delivered on this.”

Oakley Turf Website: www.oakleyturf.com

April sees the launch of an exciting new lingerie website aimed at fuller figure ladies.

Large Cup Lingerie is the brainchild of enterprising Hampshire entrepreneur Cha Haxell. The site specialises mainly in lingerie & swimwear for ladies looking for items in larger sizes.

Large Cup Lingerie Screenshot

The Large Cup Lingerie website has been built using the Magento ecommerce platform. Magento is one of the fastest growing online shopping applications, and is in use by many large & corporate brands. Magento is 100% search engine friendly and includes a raft of features not usually seen together in one application.

Cha was quick to offer praise to USP for the work carried out on her website:

“USP have done a fantastic job; my website is exactly what I wanted.  From the first contact, they have provided a brilliant service and have been a great company to work with.

As I had little knowledge of website design previously, they explained everything in detail and answered all my questions thoroughly and quickly.

They have been extremely professional and I would have no hesitation in recommending their services.”

Large Cup Lingerie Website: www.largecuplingerie.com

We are pleased to announce the launch of the first of our new fixed price Joomla website solutions. Our 4 new Joomla based website packages are a great way to get a first step on the ladder for new business startups, small online traders & small organisations.Our Startup Website Package represents fantastic value, and is fully expandable at any time. This means you can start off small and let your website grow according to your needs!

Our Small Business Website Package features lead generation functionality, along with enhanced search engine optimisation features and blogging!

Our eCommerce Startup Package is perfect for small businesses to take the first step to trading online. Take advantage of impressive features usually seen in much more expensive packages. This package is perfect for eBay sellers

If you run a guesthouse, B&B or have a holiday cottage, our new GuestHouse Website Package is perfect for accepting bookings online. The interactive booking engine will allow visitors to your website to check availability of your rooms or property and make a booking complete with deposit payments (optional) online. The booking is then immediately shown in the availability calandar to prevent double bookings.

Contact us for further details.

We are delighted to announce the launch of the brand new website for prolific singer songwriter & producer Nik Kershaw. Nik’s most noteable hits include “Wouldn’t It Be Good”, “I Won’t Let The Sun Go Down on Me” and “The Riddle”, not to mention writing credits including “The One & Only” which was performed by Chesney Hawkes.Working with our design partner Steve Cripps & Niks management team, we think the new site is an absolute cracker, and comes just days before the launch of his new CD “No Frills”.

The website includes a completely new Fan Forum, comprehensive discography, complete with soundbytes of all tracks from each album to date, and an online shop where the new CD can be purchased.

The new CD which coincides with the launch of the site, is a fully acoustic offering, of new and old tracks and is an absolute must have!

We continue to work with Nik and his team and wish them the very best with their shiny new website!

We are very proud to announce the launch of the new online web store and corporate website for Unibind UK.

Unibind are market leaders in the document binding & presentation products industry, with over 20,000 customers in the UK. We were approached by Unibind  who had a conventional corporate ‘brochure’ website. They were looking to add an online sales channel to their other sales activities.

We worked with them to arrive at a new corporate design that matched their expectations, and took that design as the basis for a brand new online eCommerce store using the Magento eCommerce platform.

The result is the new website, which not only showcases the companies products, but allows users to purchase them online. A first for Unibind UK!

USP has launched a new social networking portal targeted exclusively at pilots. PilotRegister.net aims to provide a one stop portal for all kinds of pilot who fly anything from microlights to Boeing 747’s!Users can link their profile to FaceBook, and log in with the same user name & password. With features similar to FaceBook, PilotRegister.net will see a host of new features over the coming months, including jobs, pilot personals, and a pilot shop.

Become a fan of PilotRegister.net!

You can now find USP Web Solutions Ltd on Facebook!

In addition to our Twitter page, you can now follow us on Facebook. Why not Become A Fan of USP today?

Payments via Maestro will shortly be suspended for Website Payments Pro customers who have not applied to upgrade their account to support 3D secure payments.

This added security layer has been introduced by PayPal who have teamed up with Cardinal Centinel to reduce the number of charge backs. Any merchant who has not upgraded their account by 21st January 2010 will no longer be able to accept Maestro payments. If you do not process Maestro payments, it is not currently necessary to upgrade.

To register your PayPal account with Cardinal Centinel, simply complete the form (address below)

For further details, view the PayPal 3D Secure information page.

Or upgrade your account here.