Projects
Ambre Energy
Ambre Energy are planning to be able to supply 30% of Queensland’s petrol needs from local resources, and needed to tell everyone about it, quick!
So in collaboration with community consultants JTA Australia we designed and built them a new site in record time. With a deep and complicated information architecture, we relied on MODx to make things as flexible and configurable as possible, while keeping the development process agile. Ambre had some complex communications requirements for their web communications, so we used the fantastic web service WuFoo to help them send all of the right details to the right locations.
Sampology Website and Intro Video Production
With Sampology set to take over the audiovisual world with his Super Visual Smackdown, he needed a design refresh to show people what was coming.
Sam is pretty new to the video world, so he asked Oxygen Kiosk to provide some post-production services to give his set intro that extra bit of polish.
Jaymis animated titles, stabilized hand-shot footage, tightened the edit, and colour-corrected the clips Sam had brought together from throughout film history.
Compact Designs
I’m sure it’s no surprise to discover that the Oxygen Kiosk directors have a vast love for coffee, so it didn’t take much convincing for us to take on the online store development for Compact Designs – purveyors of awesome accessories for coffee creation.
To keep things as simple and affordable as possible, we went with a sleekly implemented Textpattern CMS and the Yab_shop plugin, which allowed checkout through Paypal without fuss.
Attractive, isn’t she?
RSPCA Tasmania
After our work with the national RSPCA Australia, we were contacted by the guys from RSPCA Tasmania, who needed a new website. They had been stuck with a a closed-source, proprietary content management system. It was awkward, ugly, difficult to use, and as such the site was stagnating.
After working with the team, Oxygen Kiosk created a new website for them, that better emphasised the important work that they do in Tasmania.
The new RSPCA Tasmania website design
This new site is based on the MODx content management system, and the team are finding it so easy to use that their content updating has increased 400%!
Digital Democracy
Digital Democracy are a Sydney-based digital communications consultancy. Jenny needed a new WordPress template, pronto.
Bam! New wordpress template.
That was easy, wasn’t it!
Children of the Revolution
Children of the Revolution are an amazing shoe shop based in the heart of the Brisbane CBD. They approached us after seeing our work with the dogstar Blog and Facebook page.
Unlike many of our new clients who come to us from bad design relationships with other web companies, Children of the Revolution were happy to keep the existing look of their site, which was designed by the uber talented Jeremy of The Bennett Organisation.
What they wanted was to make the site more interesting, informative, faster to load and easier to update.
So we saved them from Joomla, and brought their site over to the bright, shiny, blog-friendly world of WordPress. Along with the full social-media fitout of Facebook, Twitter, Newsletter campaigns, competitions, integrated marketing with other local businesses and much more!
Babyology
Babyology is an immensely popular blog for parents (and other people who have babies and tiny humans in their homes). They had managed to outgrow their server, their content management system (Joomla), and their design all in the same month, so they gave us a call.
We gave them a flashy new design, migrated all of their posts and comments safely from Joomla (yuck) to WordPress (yay!), and housed them safely in their own dedicated server.
Babyology has some great advanced features: A database-powered “Product Chooser” which allows parents to comparison-shop for Prams, Cots and Highchairs, and a Wishlist which lets readers save articles to a list which can be sent to their friends.
Babyology also have a vast subscriber base for their newsletter, so we hooked them up with a custom solution for Campaign Monitor which allows them to easily send out excerpts and thumbnails from a selection of recent posts.
Rowan Sable
Working with sisters Phillipa and Olivia was great fun from the very start. Phillipa is a wonderful illustrator, and we wanted to collaborate with her to create a site design which reflects the personality and art of Rowan Sable.
The shop is sprinkled with origami, branches, and paintings. We worked out a design framework which would allow us to combine these things into a website interface, and then Phillipa created drawings of the different elements, which we were able to combine into a completed design which is not only attractive, but valid HTML/CSS code!
We wrapped this around the Content Management Framework of MODx, which makes it super simple to maintain content in the various different sections of the site, and even add products to their online store!
Pacific Opera
Pacific Opera is the opera company for young people. They provide opportunities for emerging opera performers, and stage interesting twists on old favourites like Cosi Fan Tutte and Barber of Seville. They’re a not-for-profit organization, and needed something attractive, functional, and cost-effective.
We think we delivered on all counts, with a sleek design, clean HTML and CSS code, wrapped around the fantastic MODx content management system.
RSPCA Australia
When we heard that RSPCA Australia were looking to have their website redeveloped, we instantly knew that the project was for us (we both love animals: Jaymis actually has a pet, Cal’s apartment doesn’t allow for one).
Working very closely with the RSPCA Australia online team, we created a brand-new original layout, with a focus on cleanliness, readability and style. Navigation was constructed with a focus on simplicity and inherent findability.
All content is managed using the favourite MODx content management framework, which made deployment an absolute breeze.
Oxygen Kiosk at Unconvention Brisbane
Over the weekend, Oxygen Kiosk was involved in Unconvention Brisbane, a “not for profit grassroots led music conference for DIY and Independent promoters, labels, entrepreneurs, writers, technologists, innovators and artists.” I setup a webcast for both days of conference panels, played an audiovisual set as half of Cowper, spoke on the Music as Product panel [...]
We’re Hiring! Junior Web Ninja
We’re looking for a junior web developer/silent killer to work remotely or from our Sydney office. Official transmission follows: Oxygen Kiosk, the sleek web boutique in Sydney and Brisbane is looking for a junior web developer for a 6-month contract (with a view to executing a permanent position). We’re geekily obsessive about code and hype-free [...]
Ads For Your Blog: Simple Code for Calling OpenX’s Single Page Call Within WordPress Using current_post
Advertising is one of those “necessary evils” of the web, and of non-ecommerce blogs in particular. For blogs which aren’t associated with a particular product or revenue-generating business, advertising is the main way to pay the bills. It’s not something which generally enhances a site, but we try our hardest to ensure that it’s not [...]
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