Carly Baker is one of the most highly respected handmade greeting card designers in the UK, with a loyal following of customers stretching right around the globe. Her website, Cards By Carly has been very successful since it's launch in 2001 with many people commenting on its ease of use and appealing design.

But at the beginning of 2009 Carly started giving some serious thought to giving her website a makeover. 10 months later and Carly can finally announce that the new look Cards By Carly website is officially live. There have been a number of small website updates over the years, but this is by far the biggest overhaul to date.

So why the change if everything was going so well? The answer is two-fold. Firstly, Carly felt that the website as it was couldn't offer her customers as much as she would have liked. Here are just a few of the exciting new features on offer at Cards By Carly:

• Customer ratings & reviews
• An exciting new blog written by Carly
• New account facilities (see previous orders, easy sign-in)
• A bespoke card gallery showing some of Carly's one-off designs
• Community Polls
• Regular raffle giveaways
• Downloadable content (e-books etc)
• Product comparisons

The second major driver behind this latest update is that Carly can now run her online shop in just the way she wants. The order management process has been greatly enhanced which means Carly can spend more time on what she does best, designing beautiful handmade cards.

Carly greatly appreciates your ongoing support and sincerely hopes that you enjoy using her new website.