An information site produced for UniCab to accompany their submission to the NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission for a new, sustainable and accessible design for the city’s iconic yellow cabs.
Nisha Chittal – Writer
Nisha’s writing and media-advisor career is taking off, and she needs a professional portfolio site to use for her online CV. This design highlights text content rather than graphics.
Sheryl Sarkoezy Photography
While she wanted a showcase gallery website, Sheryl didn’t want to abandon her much loved Flickr archives and community, but she didn’t want to have to upload everything twice, either. So, this site gives her the best of both worlds by pulling images from her Flickr photo archive to display them in more personalised surroundings.
Monochrome Lite Reloaded
This was a redesign for an established blog that wanted to maintain its signature (purple) look but have a more “at a glance” homepage that would lead readers quickly into individual articles of interest.
Feministe
A full overhaul of the database plus implementation of various plugins to enhance site security and loading speed were necessary, plus a theme redesign to one that was fast to load and optimised for search engines, yet which kept the familiar look for the blog’s readers so that they were not overwhelmed by too many changes all at once.
Julia Clark, Comedian
Julia is building a busy career and needed a showcase site that had all the information needed by promoters as well as introducing her to new audiences. Julia can also add new content to the blog section easily or update any of the other pages as required.
VIVidWeb Hosting
A new endeavour for VIVidWeb, targeting several niche markets and emphasising accessibility for disabled web users. The template used is therefore minimalist and emphasising text rather than flashy graphics.
Sack Kyle and Jackie O
The theme is designed to highlight a call to action on the part of the reader (in this instance sending a letter of complaint).
This is a special-purpose site that needed to be up and running quickly in order to catch the current news cycle. Using a very lightly modified template from WooThemes, the site was live less than 24 hours after the relevant scandal broke.
Gill Stannard, Naturopath & Herbalist
Gill wanted a professional presence online to promote her public speaking and media skills as well as her therapeutic services. Her very particular ideas of what she liked and didn’t like design-wise meant incorporating elements from a few select favourite sites into the final design, plus her own photographs of herbs & fresh foods: an interesting challenge made much easier than it otherwise would be by the flexibility of the Thesis template for WordPress.
Hoyden About Town redux
With the release of WordPress version 2.8+ and a new release of the Thesis template to go with it, it was time to update the blog again to play with some new elements while still keeping some of the site’s recognised visual highlights.
David Nettle, Civil Celebrant
David needed a personal profile website that also promoted the services he can provide as a Certified Marriage Celebrant in and around Sydney (not just weddings!) This is the December 2009 update of the original design to a more sophisticated look.
Wicked Women Comedy
The Wicked Women team wanted a site with dramatic visual impact and enabled for social networking. Because they had some excellent photos I chose a sliding-doors effect for the navigation menu to display these images front and centre. They also wanted to show off their logo in a large size on a splash page…
Mediak Services
Lisa needed a site where she could segment her different projects by giving them custom information pages with different backgrounds and headers. She also needed an Event Calendar function for her announcements and updates and for that function to be social-network enabled.
The Roxbury Hotel
The Roxbury badly needed to update a very old website that made no provision for listing their many entertainment events and functions. VIVidWeb provided them with a powerful Event Calendar extension option, the capacity to host as many information pages for their entertainment promoters/providers as they need, and a gallery function to allow the posting of event photos.
Gagging For It (Oz Comedy News)
A website offering comprehensive coverage of live comedy around Australia – news, reviews, gig guide, artist and venue profiles and more. This site needed a great deal of attention paid to the information architecture and harnesses WordPress’ capacity as a CMS (Content Management System) and its flexible content display options to present a magazine appearance.
Aurora Australis
Chris Burrell wanted a site to showcase his concept of Light Tech (low environmental impact, sustainable technology) Centres around Australia.
St Peters Cooks River History
A small project – a local church history group needed a website that would be easy to use and cheap to operate.
The Skeptics' Book of Pooh-Pooh
This group blog needed to have their choice of minimalist template customised to remove some unwanted elements and to have their Information Architecture and Content Management System tweaked to offer the best Search Engine Optimisation.
Greensblog
The innovative interactive outreach program of the Australian Greens which was launched in the lead-up to the 2007 Federal election – the first federal parliamentary party to use official party-based blogging to communicate with voters.
Mark O’Ryan Design
Mark wanted a starkly simple site which would allow his work portfolio to speak for itself. The site incorporates a slideshow and gallery feature, with many features built-in for future expansion of the site if desired.
Mitchell Road Auctions
Geoff wanted a website that would inform regular clients of upcoming auction details, especially for the Special Sales, and incorporating a detailed photo gallery function. The auction house has enjoyed an enthusiastic response to their regular news updates and photo galleries of auction lots ever since the site went live in early 2006.
Hoyden About Town
This design was chosen because the typography and layout is especially accessible for readers with disabilities and was also an SEO-driven choice. The multimedia box and extensive customisation possibilities of the chosen Thesis theme were also a factor.
This is an extensively customised blog, with many interactive Web 2.0 features added to the standard blogging platform, without interfering with the aesthetics or performance.
