Tell us about yourself…
e-glue is formed of Marielle Baldelli & Sébastien Messerschmidt. We are graduates from the Higher School of Decorative Arts, Seb in Illustration and Marielle in Art. In addition to our individual projects, we have worked together for two years now and started e-glue 10 months ago.
Tell us about e-glue…
As e-glue is only 10 months old, it's a baby project but it's growing quickly with all our love. e-glue is a creative studio specialising in design and illustration for kids. We also design and distribute products for kids spaces as well. We've started with e-glue // adhesive designs for kids, our first product range that encourages people to think of space as a blank canvas for illustration and offers the possibility, using giant wall decals, to decorate and transform kids bedrooms into narrative spaces. We're working on others products and projects, but we can't talk about them at the moment!
Why did you choose RapidWeaver?
We had some knowledge in HTML and CSS but not enough for setting up a whole website without the support of a website developer. Having already used RapidWeaver for our respective personal websites, we thought that it was the best website builder...and still do! RapidWeaver is the easiest software to use and the cheapest as well! It makes it easy to build professional looking websites with a lot of options.
What is RapidWeaver's best feature?
Pre-designed themes produce excellent results. Moreover, RapidWeaver allows you to easily edit the XHTML and CSS code and then customise the theme by changing their contents. The blogging feature is also excellent for using as news pages for our online store. We'd just like to have the possibility to read the articles by clicking "previous or next entries" rather than by months or categories.
e-glue Workspace: Where Seb and Marielle create their adhesive designs.
Are you using any third-party Add-ons?
Yes, we've used Blocks a lot! Dragging images, text and HTML anywhere you want… it's magical.
Have you customised your site with third-party solutions?
Yes, we've used Lightbox, a simple javascript that allows to display larger image(s) on the current page.
Which part of your website are you most proud of?
Not using classic e-commerce services, we were able to really think about our website architecture and customise (nearly) everything according to our brand image.
So, even if there are still some improvements to be done, we're proud of having created a professional looking website by our own means.
How did you go about creating a multi-lingual site with RapidWeaver?
A lot of foreign customers, bloggers and magazines have continually asked for our help to understand and find the necessary information in our online store. Therefore we quickly decided to translate the whole website into English using the same tools. Decided to build two websites, a French version and an English one with a RapidWeaver site file for each. We may well be adding a Spanish one soon, too!
Useful Links
RapidWeaver 4.2 is available for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
RapidWeaver 3.6 is available for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger