WRAP Living - New Website
Baracon have contributed to skylines the world over for a number of years now. A "...leading Australian company with a proud tradition of providing property development, construction, project management and property investment services."
Some of their previous projects have included Oasis Mission Beach in Queensland, Charlie in Richmond and now WRAP, in Southbank, Melbourne.
Efront have again had the pleasure of working with Cornwell Design, who have been the creative minds behind the WRAP brand. Working with Brett (Baracon) and Amelia and Ben (Cornwell) over the past month or two we're extremely proud of the result. Stunning imagery, combined with great floorplans and excellent content have been polished off with some clean transitions, adding to an excellent user experience.
Congratulations to all involved, get over and take a look if you haven't already - www.wrapliving.com.au.
Have a great week,
Mark
Posted on Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Website rebuild for The Academy
We've been flat out and unfortunately our posts have decreased over the last few weeks. Why you ask? Well we're happy to announce one of the premium sites that have been chewing up our time of late...more in the next post ;)
The Australian National Academy of Music
"The Australian National Academy of Music (the Academy) is Australia’s premiere institution for training the country’s finest young classical musicians."
It was a real pleasure working for a premiere institution like The Academy and without a doubt their South Melbourne location is one of the more stunning offices I've visited. The Academy previously had a site built entirely in Flash that was no longer serving their needs. The brief was to create a site that could be content managed, improve search engine visibility and allow their audience access to information easily and without fuss.
We worked very hard with Melinda, Matt and the team at The Academy to create a site with intuitive and user-focused navigation that was search engine friendly and had the ability to be updated easily. Using the Efront CMS (content management system) the site allows event creation that links into a calendar for easy access throughout the site. Each page and area can be updated, including the banner images, home page content and standard content areas, covering images, text, bookings and dates.
All in all a great result and a success.
More to come....
Mark
Labels: anam, australian-national-academy-of-music, the-academy, web-design, Web-Design-Melbourne
Posted on Wednesday, August 27, 2008
iPhone & Wordpress, a powerful combo
One of the most exciting things about the iPhone is the app store. Watching what other developers are doing in a commercial and non-commercial space is great. Leading companies like Salesforce have proprietary apps out there and on the flipside, great open source organizations like Wordpress have Wordpress for the iPhone.
Such a nice, standalone application can let Wordpress users jump online and update their blog/site ANYWHERE that they can get 3G or wifi coverage. We recently launched a site for Milke Performance Services that runs on the Wordpress platform. An application like this would let the Milke team live post STRAIGHT to their website from a show, performance....anywhere. Great excuse to get a new phone too ;)
Personally I think this type of mobile blogging (see Twitter/Plurk etc) is just the beginning. We're often reading stories about services like Twitter announcing breaking news, being the first one's on the scene with images, links, text etc. This type of information and fast access to updates is only made easier on a device that is accessible, easy to use and available to all.
We're currently working on some iPhone applications just to be across the development potentials and we're very excited about the possibilities. Watch this space and have a great week.
Mark
Posted on Monday, August 04, 2008