07/14/08 - Pittsburgh, PA --
Rising fuel costs are impacting consumers’ willingness to shop in traditional brick and mortar storefronts and they are exchanging vehicle miles for mouse clicks resulting in an increased demand on web developers for more ecommerce shopping cart websites. The problem most web development firms are now facing is the challenge of keeping up with the latest ecommerce design and development trends.
To answer the problem, Web design and development company, 2440 Media, has announced the launch of Cart Craze, a free ecommerce design gallery for showcasing the best designed and standards compliant ecommerce and shopping cart websites. Cart Craze’s primary function is to serve as a web designer’s research tool for discovering the latest ecommerce design and programming techniques.
2440 Media developed the Cart Craze tool out of necessity. “Initially the gallery of well-designed ecommerce sites was compiled by hand, but now a majority of the websites are contributed by Cart Craze’s growing viewer-base from all around the world.”, says Jack Collins, Marketing Director of 2440 Media. “The sites we include in the gallery are hand selected based on design appeal, attention to standards, and current programming techniques.”
“We need to keep informed of the current trends in ecommerce design and programming and our industry is in need of an ecommerce research hub.” says Collins “90% of all websites that we are currently submitting proposals for require a shopping cart component, so this tool is imperative for us to make recommendations to potential and existing clients”
Cart Craze is updated daily with newly added ecommerce websites. It features the ability to search for ecommerce websites within a specific industry allowing web designers to research a particular niche market. Futures plans include offering tips and resources for building better ecommerce websites as well as ecommerce related product reviews. Collins adds, “Our hope is that the web design community will see the value in this tool and adopt it into their preproduction workflow.”
About 2440 Media
2440 Media is a web design and development company headquartered in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. With a focus on serving medium to large sized businesses and their consultants, 2440 Media performs a wide variety of interactive services including Web Design, Web Applications, and Web Video.
About Cart Craze
Cart Craze is a free eCommerce CSS Design Gallery showcasing the Best Designed and Standards Compliant eCommerce and Shopping Cart Websites.
Cart Craze can be viewed at http://www.CartCraze.com