Listen Carefully - A series of design experiments
Listen Carefully "... is the culmination of a series of design experiments, and the introduction to an exploration of the designer as the medium, through which media messages are communicated."
We've recently been working with Dan Peterson from Listen Carefully, helping customize a Wordpress blog template. It's great to work in web design on a non-commercial job and we've enjoyed being able to contribute to the Listen Carefully experiment.
In times gone by the humble blog was there for the angry nerd to voice his frustrations, complaints and issues. Nowadays, the blog has a whole stack of things going for it and a wide variety of uses for the individual, company or project ;
- it can be the 'voice' for the group or company it represents
- it's a way to respond and comment on news items or relevant activity out in the world
- use a blog to publish press releases, announce new products or relationships
- take advantage of RSS feeds and have instant updates go out to anyone who's bookmarked your site/blog
- tailor your content by tagging and labeling posts to help your SEO
Listen Carefully is a great example of the benefits that come from publishing work like this on the web. Bringing together 7 designers from Melbourne for the initial stage, now feedback has come from design studios and students all over the world, allowing the experiment to take on an organic element and grow with the people involved. The open communication involved via the blog medium allows for visitors to the site to contribute to the discussion and hence the experiment itself.
Take a look, wander through the site and comment where you see fit. If you want more information on how easy it is to update and run your own blog, feel free to get in touch.
All the best,
Mark
Labels: blog-templates, blogger, design, listen-carefully, melbourne, web-design, wordpress-customisation, wordpress-templates
Posted on Wednesday, October 03, 2007
St Ali - A little bit of web development
"Our aim is simple; to source the best green beans, roast them with care and attention to detail, then make great espresso, as good as it gets." - St Ali
It's great to work with people who love what they do and enjoy it. Mark Dundon and the guys at St Ali are into their coffee. They not only make amazing espresso, they source the beans and carefully roast them as well.
Like many people, Mark is flat chat running a business and was struggling to find the time to sit down with Dreamweaver and update his site. Coming to Efront Mark was looking to make his days a bit easier and find some more time. A quick assessment found that St Ali wasn't in need of a new site, just a little web development to make his current setup more functional. We took some time and implemented a neat, small CMS that let's St Ali add new coffee's, put in links for PayPal purchases and reorder their listings. This job was a good example of a situation where a small amount of work was much more effective than a re-design or completely new build.
Keep an eye out this week as we'll be adding Google's Blogger to the St Ali site to help them out with new announcements and specials...make sure if you're in the area to stop in for a coffee too....
Have a great week.
Mark
Labels: blogger, blogging, cms, coffee, paypal, st-ali, web-design, web-development
Posted on Monday, September 03, 2007
