CASE STUDIES

We are pleased to present here some samples of our web site design.

The Twisted Vine

This is a small brochure-style website with the addition of a shopping cart. The shopping cart uses a standard template from ShopFactory which means the layout and style is a little different from the main pages. This was a deliberate decision based on the small number of products.

Polly Clinic

This is a fairly straight-forward site designed for self-management. The images in the header banner rotate randomly on page load. As often happens when clients ask to be able to update their own sites, I doubt that this client will ever manage to do so despite being provided with an 11-page manual and a practice page.

Australian Adventure Travel

This site was originally designed many years ago and had become unwieldy and confusing to navigate. The site was updated in-house 2 or 3 times a year. It contained many coding errors, or functions and codes which are no longer used. The site was completely re-designed removing the old tables-based layout but preserving the page names and other elements which had pushed the site to the top of the search engines. Once the major updates were added, the site was returned to the owners for in-house management.

Elegance Plus

This shopping cart site replaced an earlier non-interactive site which contained large graphics of the seasonal catalogue. It was apparent that customers had already been visiting the site, because as soon as it was converted to a shopping cart, the sales started to roll in.

Streetside Advertising

This is a typical standard site of fewer than 10 pages. It includes a self-management facility for the client to amend the text content. The provided logo caused some design limitations.

Ashworth's Office Furniture

This site was designed in Flash in 2004 (by an uncontactable designer) and the customer was pleased with everything except the pdf download of the brochure. This was extraordinarily slow even when the smaller version was chosen and some complaints were being received. So a "Product List" button was changed on the Flash navigation to link to a catalog section where the brochure was reproduced into html pages and the images used were all optimised for quick loading. The style and colour scheme of the html pages are designed to match the Flash pages as far as possible.

Skin City Medical

This is a typical standard site of fewer than 10 pages. It includes a few photos on most pages, and a standard contact form.

Life Change Sanctuary of Health and Beauty

This was a redesign of a site which had a difficult navigation arrangement and a variety of different background images, colour schemes and styles. Because of the need for a shopping cart, the information pages were included inside the shopping cart structure. In addition, the feedback form for the shopping cart was not sufficient for the other sections of the site, so a separate feedback form for booking appointments was set up.

Absolutely Fabulous Wedding Cars

The site was handed over to my client when she purchased the business. It had been designed in Austria and had a few minor errors. The feedback page was amended and an additional page removed and the hosting company was changed to a local host.

Literacy For Sure

This site was originally designed to help promote a stand at an exhibition where the client was distributing brochures. The site has now been re-designed to advertise a dyslexia seminar. It's purpose will now be geared towards promoting this seminar and similar future events.

Fodder Run

This site was set up to allow the owners to change the menu on a weekly basis. This is achieved using an online editor which also enables uploading of new images to match the menu. The order form incorporates math functions so that the total cost is included in the response webpage and emails. The images are set for specific sizes, so if the images uploaded are too large they will be resized down to fit the page layout. The unintended result of this is if the client uploads an image which is smaller than the specified size, it will be stretched to fit and this will cause some pixellation problems.

Kids Party Bags

A standard site using an order form to sell the products. This site was constructed using CSS layout. The large open font was chosen to complement the child theme.

Cool Classic Chryslers

This is a classic style using a basic table layout with CSS formatting. A budget site.

WA Billboards

A site designed for membership access by the company's clients. The images, descriptions and pricelists are not available to the general public. Also included with this site is a simple CMS (Content Management System) to allow for updates to be done through a password access. This then allows the owner to update the "booked" or "available" months for any particular billboard, as well as update the newsletter or other pages.

Perth Better Homes

A mid-sized site with four picture galleries accessed from thumbnail pages. With minimal text or description, users of the site refer to the photos when describing their own requirements in the feedback form. This site paid for itself the first week that the site became live even though it was not finished.

OzRefunds

A typical budget site, a couple of information pages and a feedback form.

World Literacy International

This site has been totally redesigned. The old table structure with a heavy background colour has been replaced by a fluid CSS layout and some of the larger pages split into easier to read chunks. Minor modifications are carried out periodically.

Reading for Sure Virtual Classroom

This is an extension of the World Literacy site. The courses currently being conducted face-to-face are gradually being incorporated into an online classroom which will enable correspondence students to interact directly. This is a long-term project which is expected to take some time to complete. Most areas are not accessible by the general public, but if you are interested in this site please contact us directly.

Cool Shades Australia

A portfolio site to display the design and construction of shade structures performed by this company with a view to reducing the amount of time needed by the salestaff in explaining the alternatives. A thumnails page leads to larger images of samples of work done. The feedback form invites people to supply details for a quote.

No Dig Equipment

A requirement for a map of Australia to indicate clearly to the viewer the non-USA location of this business together with illustrations on what the business does was combined into a flash movie on the home page. This is an example of  "a picture paints a thousand words". The client later requested that the buttons be removed for the current (showing) pages. This means that the navigational graphics have to keep re-loading - however, this is the customer's preference.

Hair & Co

An on-line shop was required to sell quality imported wigs. Some of the photos were not of a high quality to start with, nevertheless it was decided to use a reasonably large graphic for each wig to give the viewer a slightly better idea of what they were purchasing. In some cases this meant enlarging a small catalogue image. This shop is achieving sales throughout Australia despite the slow load times.

Embroiderers International

The host for this site was changed, therefore the site had to be reconstructed from file documents. Included in the changes was a new logo and some changes to information pages. The feedback (quote) form now includes the ability for people to upload a graphic file which arrives in the client's inbox as an email attachment.

MDBA

The Business Association required a site to promote its functions and itself. To encourage membership and to encourage local businesses in general to use the internet, a free classifieds section was set up with the ability to upload a graphic. This classifieds can be altered to a paid system at a later date. Advertisers in the classifieds choose their own passwords and manage their advert themselves.

EGC

When a site is required in a hurry - 2 days will do it. Not flash but the client was pleased to have a site ready before a newspaper announcement appeared.

Headwest

This site was designed to help fundraising activities by providing basic information. In a private administration area, it is possible to communicate with emergency services.

AIWT

The original site was transferred to a new host after the designers closed their business. The feedback form was broken, and there was difficulty navigating the site due to an awkward double scroll bar effect caused by the original design. These errors were fixed and irrelevant keywords replaced and some typographical errors fixed. Some time later, additional pages were added and a floating menu included in some long pages so the visitor does not have to get back to the top to find other links. In addition, a secure payments system is accessable after completing the enrolment form. Over time, a number of major changes have been made to this website, in particular the navigation system and the main graphics have been revised serveral times. There is a student login which provides access to online documentation and lessons for correspondence students. The site owner uploads all files for the students' use and maintains a database for secure access. Amendments to the content of the site are performed via Contribute (from Macromedia).

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