This was a dream collaboration. TMR knew exactly what they wanted, and what they needed our help with. Their brief led us to take Wordpress to places we haven’t been before, and we’re all extremely happy with the results.

… The Motor Report were so happy that asked us to work with them on a further project before the first was even completed, so watch out for more niche-smashing blog action from TMR and O2K soon.

Within 2 days of launch, the dogstar online store had sold enough clothing to cover its development costs! Now that’s connecting a business with its market.

The website is managed using Teamsite, which regular readers of my personal blog already know, is an outdated and overhyped file versioning system.

The site had been redesigned a few years before I came on board, but there were some glaringly obvious problems with the current design, and many more issues became apparent once I began to scratch the surface.

Luckily, because it was a Government client, I was afforded time and resources to conduct extensive usability analysis of the existing design, and then also the new designs that I came up with. This was a very interesting process, and most importantly, having quantitative data when arguing for a particular change in design is invaluable. Managers love to be able to tell their bosses that X change will result in Y% more usability.

My new design put the primary navigation on the front page, where it had been missing for years, completely breaking user expectation. There is also a smattering of javascript to make the page more ‘dynamic’. It also makes use of some more sophisticated CSS techniques, and has reduced the overall file size considerably. There are some chunks of my code that were not implemented, but apprently that is a failing of the ‘CMS’ more than anything else. There are also big changes that I made that have been left out of this relaunching, but I think that they may be left for a future unveiling.

Pretty cool though, no?

Ean Golden is a respected deejaying trailblazer. He writes for Remix Magazine as the digital deejay specialist, works showing off new technology for Vestax, and runs his own little slice of the web at DJ Tech Tools.

When Ean needed a hot-looking store to sell the ultra-limited VCI-100 mixer, he worked closely with Cal, who designed the shop and integrated the modern shopping cart solution Foxycart.

Medici Concerts is a small Brisbane-based concert series promoter, who specialise in piano music. For their 2008 series, Cal designed a new-look, simple website, with an emphasis on typographic arrangement. All content is displayed clearly on the front page, and the Javascript library JQuery is used to display further concert details in a modal window. The design uses the Blueprint CSS Library for the basis of the layout.

They needed a site to integrate with their extensive mailing list, and to sell tickets to events. They also wanted a sophisticated image gallery to show pics of their latest parties, and notify punters of upcoming gigs.

We have been working extensively with Flowershop, helping them to grow their business in the online sphere. They are excellent at what they do - delivering the freshest flowers all around Australia!

Basing their site on Zencart, we have made extensive customisations to the code that allows Flowershop to get on with what they are best at - giving people flowers!

Our good friend and OxygenKiosk collaborator Karl needed to spiff his portfolio site up, fast!

So we helped. It’s super simple, super clean, and showcases Karl’s super imagery perfectly. This redesign was featured in graphics sites worldwide within hours of being launched.

Home Staging by Anne needed an informational site to promote their home staging and organization business and fast! So we went oldschool, crafting an simple, clean XHTML/CSS based site with some of our cleanest code ever, and utilizing the fabulous Lightbox image presentation scripts.

Boutique Brisbane promoter Kris-Ko needed to showcase his posse of DJs and live electronic musicians. With high profile events looming it needed to be fast and sleek, so we hooked him up with the MODx content management framework and some seriously fast design and code, turning out a new site in record time.