Coffee Culture Cafe

Completely ground up custom developed website for Coffee Culture Cafe & Eatery.

The folks at Coffee Culture approached us with a not-so-unique problem: their website was outdated, parts of it were broken due to obsolete plugins and sloppy development work, and their social media marketing efforts needed to be integrated. The objective of this project was to balance several essential design requirements from the client. First, they wanted to convey their European roots while appealing to a friendly family atmosphere. The Coffee Culture project began as a refresh of a website that was older and not mobile-friendly. Coffee Culture is a coffee franchise with over 45 locations across Canada. The client wanted a new website that represents the brand's classic European feel and has a trendy and modern aesthetic.

Geo-location based store finder

Coffee Culture has over 50 locations across Ontario, Manitoba and Pennsylvania. With the number of shops expected to grow soon, the client wanted us to implement a solution that would make it easy to match their geographic location to the nearest Coffee Culture cafe. This ability also allows specific promotions to be showcased for any store location. We deveopled a custom WordPress plugin called Shift8 GEO IP Location. Developing a solution in-house gave us complete flexibility to tailor the solution to meet the needs and expectations of our client. The plugin detects their location and sets the geo-coordinates as an encrypted browser cookie. We then developed custom code specific to the client to match those coordinates with the nearest store location based on address matching. With this solution, we were thinking long-term. We wanted the client to have the option to have a specific “My Store” dashboard where promotions, communications, specials and everything in between could be leveraged with each customer.

Custom Web Design

We design bespoke, responsive user interfaces from scratch in Figma—never relying on off-the-shelf templates or generic themes.

Our team develops scalable design systems, typography hierarchies, and mobile-first layouts tested across modern devices to deliver seamless user experiences for Toronto consumers and B2B buyers.

Responsive

Developing a website that is responsive is no longer a new requirement, its mandatory. We use industry standard tools and best practices to incorporate framework and scaffolding to ensure your website responds on the many different screen widths across many different mobile and tablet devices.

Gone are the days of a “mobile only” website. We will design your site for desktop, mobile, tablet, portrait and landscape viewing. And it will be beautiful!

Enterprise Web Development & Technology

When organizations require complex web applications, client portals, or custom software, we develop scalable architectures using Laravel, React, Next.js, and Python.

Backed by SOC 2 Type II controls and secure CI/CD deployment pipelines, we collaborate seamlessly with in-house IT and enterprise procurement teams.

Custom WordPress Development

Shift8 specializes in lightweight, enterprise WordPress engineering. We build handcrafted themes and custom Gutenberg blocks with zero bloated page builders (no Elementor or Divi).

Our code follows modern PHP standards, strict security hardening, and clean API integrations with platforms like Salesforce, HubSpot, and custom REST endpoints.