I’ve had a relationship with Scotlog for 15 years or so, and in that time the Scotlog.com website has undertaken a few updates here and there. Recently I realised that it’s been a while since the site’s last update, and it deserved a bit of a face-lift.
To that end, I am developing and administering the new Scotlog.com 2026 edition on WordPress using the Elementor page builder. It’s a fairly simple one page site with a few sections highlighting Scotlog’s background and the products they sell. Scotlog as you’ll find when you visit the site, sells kiln dried logs and biomass fuels for wood burning stoves.
They don’t carry an extensive product range and like to carry out the guts of their business offline. They are old-school that way, and feel that the personal touch increases customer retention due to the enhanced customer care. Some customers prefer this more personable approach too and given Scotlog has been around for 25 years plus, it’s clearly serving the company well
The website has a much more modern feel with some eye candy on view as you scroll through the site. I’ve updated the Enquiry form as Scotlog rely on this quite heavily, employing a double opt-in approach to reduce spam etc with Fluent Forms.
The big hero image at the top of the homepage was created with the help of Google’s Nanobanana (with my prompting of course!) and I feel it captures the character Scotlog would like to project – warmth, family values and reliability.
I am still working on the mobile responsiveness of the site, but in due course Scotlog.com will work well on desktop, laptops, tablets and mobile.
As Scott the owner tends to be quite hands off with regards to the content of the site, I am invariably to be left to my own devices to come up with copy and approaches that work for him. Luckily I’ve had zero complaints so far from Scott who is always appreciative of the work I carry out.
Some of the taglines and so on are functional placeholders – but once Scot has had chance to digest the look and feel of the site, he’ll give me ideas to implement, but for the time being I’ve tried to capture his character in the text content of the site and in the images. On that note, all of the current images used on the site are either created by me or generated using nanobanana and in some cases adapting materials created by Land Energy the producer of the Woodlets range of products.
I’m sure the site will develop more over the next wee while including incorporation of Hubspot to possibly replace the Fluent Forms implementation to help with CRM, and of course once Scott has digested the changes to the layout and look, he’ll have his thoughts on how to proceed, but for now it’s a good start.
You can visit the site yourself at www.scotlog.com.