2 new websites, 2 new great Melbourne clients
After hard work on all sides of the table, we're proud to announce our two latest sites from two very different clients.
Adams Management are an artist management service that look after some great acts. Broadcasters, comedians, writers, film makers and actors all help make up the swag that Liz and Jess help promote and book every day. We met Liz Adams and her team late in 2007, learning quickly that their current site wasn't meeting their needs anymore we looked to a new setup for them. The build gave Adams' a custom Content Management System and blog functionality, along with a fresh new design for their website, allowing Jess and Liz better control over their online content.
It's been excellent working with Liz and Jess and we're all rapt with the outcome.
www.adamsmanagement.com.au
SC Land are an award winning boutique property development company headed by Harvard-trained architect Lance Chu and his wife and co-director Chenghan Tan. Efront was proud to partner with Cornwell Design to bring to life a new site promoting SC Land's newest development - HUE.
A unique site built entirely in Flash - www.hue.com.au allows the visitor to navigate through a backdrop of great photography highlighting the HUE development. Main navigation along the bottom let's the busy visitor jump straight to the section of interest, whilst contact and enquire options are the call to action and available throughout each pop-in window. Take a look for yourself and enjoy the scrolling!
www.hue.com.au
Cheers,
Mark
Labels: melbourne, web-design, Web-Design-Melbourne, website
Posted on Thursday, April 10, 2008
Big Words Copywriting Service
In the same way you go to a designer for the look and feel and a web developer to build your website, a copywriting service is there if you have something that needs to be said. Be it on a brochure, a billboard or a website, clear and concise language is important. Big Words have years of experience as copywriters providing concise and relevant copy for corporations, companies and individuals.
Branding and design were provided by Luke Gerner (www.lukegerner.com) and we were lucky enough to work on getting the website, hosting and email sorted out. We're more than happy with the result and know where we'll be going when we run out of ... you know....
Have a great weekend...
Mark
Labels: Copywriting, melbourne, web-design, Web-Design-Melbourne
Posted on Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Gray Nicolls Launch
It's Friday, it's been a big week, and we've got a lot done. All up, I think we've made the internet a better place.
Over the last few weeks we've been working hard on upgrading the Gray Nicolls website. Gray Nicolls Sports distributes, Cricket, Rugby, Netball, Hockey, Squash, Tennis and even Darts equipment to almost 1,000 retailers in Australia and New Zealand through brands like Gray Nicolls, County, Steeden and Gilbert. No one can argue, we love our sport.
This project has been a little different from some of the other work we've done. The design side has been handled by Adam at HD Design, while we've looked after the content management system. Adams a real pro - and the process could not have been smoother.
The site was and still is for the large part in Mambo/Joomla - to be honest, not one of our favourite systems. We've manage to work with and around the system to provide Gray Nicolls an elegant solution for promoting their products and news, while providing a different look and feel for each brand.
It's been a fun and rewarding process! Now on to a well earned beverage.
Have a great weekend,
David
Labels: design, launch, melbourne, web-development
Posted on Friday, October 12, 2007
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
More than a placeholder - DesignLive
DesignLive specialise in building automation, window furnishings and contract joinery. Looking through the work this company does will help give you an understanding of how much of a specialty area it is. Bringing together architects, designers, developers, engineers and corporations to create a unique 'smart' building is no small undertaking.
We were lucky enough to be recently working with Cornwell on the placeholder site for DesignLive. Under tight deadline recently a placeholder was needed to coincide with launch of new products and brand work. A placeholder is normally a single web page, logo and contact details that does just what it says, 'holds' the spot until content and a complete website is finished. The work that we ended up doing with Cornwell was much more than a placeholder site, seven pages and a registration option for people to record their details that hooks up to a database for email marketing.
We think it turned out really well and can't wait to get working on the full website for DesignLive.
Labels: design, DesignLive, melbourne, placeholder, web-design, Web-Design-Melbourne
Posted on Thursday, August 23, 2007