Websites, Emails, Surveys and more!
Our blogging record has suffered a little recently but there's been some great work going on....
Stockland Tooronga - www.stocklandtooronga.com.au
A new single page site for Stockland and their new development gardiner Apartments. Designed by the team at Cornwell, the site captures interested parties information in a nice clean form and showcases some great images through a Flash slideshow.
made.living - www.madeliving.com.au
A full featured site running on the Efront CMS (Backstage). Designed by Philippa at The Candy Factory, this site allows the team at Made to update content, add images, video, news and text as they see fit. A great looking site that helps them present a great product and service.
Grocon - www.pixelbuilding.com.au
Still on the property front, Grocon have announced their exciting new vision for the old Carlton Brewery site in Swanston St. The Pixel building will be the first carbon neutral building in Australia and potentially the world. We've taken Cornwell's design and created a placeholder site that showcases the brand, vision, media and contact information along with a video flythrough of the site to be.
Along with all this there's and a stack of email campaigns have been developed for Philip Island Tourism, Carbon Edge, Film Victoria and Ambulance Victoria to name a few.
There's some great work in the pipeline too, with 7 new websites coming together for Cengage Learning, a new site in the works for Neometro, Australia New Zealand Society of Criminology, Victorian Actors Benevolent Trust, Otek, Melbourne Open House 2009 and some blog and email work for ABC Digital!
We're happy to be able to help these organisations, businesses and groups make the most of their time online and look forward to wrapping up the (financial) year with a bang.
Keep on truckin',
Mark
Posted on Tuesday, June 02, 2009
New website for the Schools First project
Busy times here at Efront in the run to the end of financial year, lots of news to come but what better place to start than Schools First.
In October 2008 we started work with the NAB on the Schools First project and now we're proud to announce the launch of the full Schools First website
If you're unfamiliar with the project here's a blurb from the site :
"Schools First is a fantastic new initiative that is about improving outcomes for young people. At its heart, Schools First is about bringing together students, teachers, parents and community members, to support each other and help improve student outcomes."
There's a prizepool of $15 million dollars being awarded to schools and their partnerships over a 3 year period! A fantastic opportunity.
Our involvement with NAB and the Schools First partners (Australian Centre for Education Research and the Foundation for Young Australians) has been all around the design and development of the Schools first website. It's been a great process to be involved with and to date we've had the pleasure of helping hundreds of schools across the country register for workshops online via the website! With the inclusion of community partners, there's thousands of registrations being processed and organized via the site.
The new site includes a calendar of events, live polls, social network interaction, a comprehensive search tool and (of course) great content! All of this is and more running on the Efront Backstage content management system, allowing the content owners a quick and easy way to keep content fresh, up to date and accurate!
We're proud to be involved in such an excellent project and we're excited about continuing to deliver great tools to all involved!
www.schoolsfirst.edu.au
Mark
Labels: development, NAB, Schools-first, web-design, website
Posted on Wednesday, May 06, 2009
12 months on - Mum's Grapevine
On May 6, 2007 we blogged about our first meeting with Caroline and Vicky and the Mum's Grapevine idea. Well, twelve months on and Caroline has taken the business to a whole new level. Via referral, the site now boasts over 20,000 subscribers, all receiving the weekly email!
Mum's Grapevine is essentially a way for people to stay aware of discounts, specials and offers across a range of maternity, children, toddler and baby items. From strollers to holidays to good old nappies (or diapers depending on how much TV you watch) there's always a stack of items coming out in the weekly newseltter. The idea is simple, sign up on the site, receive a weekly email, save money! The idea is great because it's a no brainer, who doesn't want to save cash?
Efront built a small site and workflow that allows users to register their interest in the Mum's Grapevine newsletter and refer friends and family. We then built a HTML email newsletter for Caroline, that looks and feels like the site which she can populate with content each week and send out to her subscribers! Behind the scenes there's a little ad management tool or two in place that monetise the whole idea for her.
Mum's Grapevine is front of mind at the moment as we've recently finished developing a new HTML email template. Anna K's design is clean, fresh and looks fantastic. We've taken that and ensured compatibility across Outlook(s), Apple Mail, gMail, Yahoo, Hotmail and even Lotus Notes.
The new HTML newsletter can be seen here.
So to sign off, congratulations to Carline for making a success of the last 12 months and we wish her and the team all the best for the next 12 months!
Mark
Labels: email-campaigns, email-marketing, html-email, web-design
Posted on Monday, April 20, 2009
New site for Knowing & Film Victoria
Today the new Nicholas Cage film Knowing makes its debut, the sci-fi thriller entirely filmed in Melbourne, Australia. Already getting great reviews (David - 3.5 and Margaret - 4) it's been likened to Donnie Darko and The Sixth Sense.
Working with Film Victoria we've made an addition to the Filmed In Melbourne website, with a new micro-site detailing some of the great location shots and information from the film. It's the second Nicholas Cage film to be shot in Melbourne (Ghost Rider previously) and it's excellent to see the town we love pulling more international attention.
So, love him or hate him, get out and support your city by seeing Knowing.
www.filmedinmelbourne.com.au/knowing
Mark
Posted on Thursday, March 26, 2009
New website for Soho Projects and busy times
We've been working with Jane from Sinclair design recently on the new site for Soho Projects.
"Soho Projects is the result of a collaboration between two brothers, Josh and Shay Nassi. Josh has over twenty years in the construction business, Project Managing an extraordinarily diverse range of large, medium and small scale projects. Shay brings to Soho Projects a degree in Technical Engineering, as well as two decades on building and construction sites - both in Australia and overseas."
We turned Jane's design into a fully funcitonal CMS driven site that allows the Soho team to update client lists, show off their excellent work through Flash image galleries and update copy, documents and images throughout.
In other news, we're in the middle of our busiest February ever, with multiple projects on the go. Watch this space for a bunch of new work coming soon for Cornwell, NAB, Special Olympics Victoria and many more!
Cheers
Mark
Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009
