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.
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).
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.
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