“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.”

—Hans Hofmann

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Hostezi

Hostezi required a sleek professional look to set it apart from the rest, requiring everything from corporate identity and logo through to their website designed. A bright clean vibrant approach was taken; with fresh earthy tones to get away from the metallic technical feel too often associated with computers and hosting.

The homepage also includes a contact form and login area for existing clients to login to their control panel. Additional pages featured tutorials and support, and further information about their plans as well as other general information. A simple clean and easy to navigate website was designed, with room for an advertisement banner for weekly/monthly specials

if required, and pricing plans all on the homepage.

With the website design now completed Hostezi is currently in the development phase and hopes to launch very shortly. Stay tuned.

Aqueas

Aqueas, while a small company is one of Melbourne’s leading suppliers in corporate and professional pool solutions. Their corporate identity and visual language were all designed in-house from which I then developed their website.

Clean and easy to navigate was requested, with the secondary visual language to play a large part. Aqueas is one of three complementary websites which all needed to tie together and share the same cms, fortunately I had the opportunity to design all three.

It was decided to keep the structure the same to save costs and maintain consistency. Functionality included a shopping cart, latest news section, and several internal templates. Developed in 2008 this uses the Kentico CMS.

Mercy Home and Community Care

Mercy Health Care provides health services through several locations throughout Australia, having designed and implemented several of their other divisions websites the focus was to maintain elements and styles used throughout these.

Aside from the design, HTML and CSS this was also one of my first forays into XML driven flash applications, with rotating tag lines updatable via a simple backend. A simple bright and vibrant approach was developed to appeal to their target audience.

In the end I developed website concepts for several different divisions at Mercy Health Care. Developed in 2008.

Department of Planning and Infrastructure

The Department of Planning and Infrastructure required a clean professional design suitable for a government organisation with a broad target audience, yet simple enough to be integrated into their current CMS.

Logical site navigation and utilisation of all existing elements used throughout their current site. Natural blues were used along with brown tints as used through their logo and style guide for consistency.

Two different concepts were supplied, a structured fixed width design and a second, still fixed width but which more clearly defines the different sections by breaking them up as individual elements, pitched in 2009.

Guildford Grammar

Guildford Grammar School is a senior and preparatory school located on the banks of the Swan River in Perth, Western Australia. With an already extensive database of information and resources on their current website, the importance was for a site that was easy to navigate.

It was decided to divide the site into three more manageable sections, one each for present, past and future students in order to aid navigation. Once a solid wireframe was designed and suitable content management system decided upon the website simply built itself.

Guildford Grammars new website contains interactive tour videos, engaging Flash animation and now an easy to follow navigation system without the depth it previously suffered. Designed and built in 2008.

Poretti

A new high-end building company from Western Australia, Poretti Homes required a ultra modern, professional website “oozing class” to become the showpiece of their marketing campaign and launch into this elite market place.

With no existing print material and only a thin style guide to work from, a few suitable lifestyle shots were selected on which the website design was built around. The gold colour scheme was settled upon to enhance the feel and look of elegance.

Many of the visual styles built into the website were then adopted for their print work and a holding page built. After designing and coding the holding page work is currently underway developing their full-blown website. View Poretti Homes here.

Haven Designs

Haven Designs has changed slightly since originally pitched and launched it was designed with a small budget in mind so needed to be simple and quick to implement yet look professional, to compliment its style guide and current print campaigns in circulation.

With their business encompassing a second brand Odyssey Homes, it was decided to save money both websites needed to be designed in such a way to allow them both to run off a shared platform, in this case the Kentico .Net cms was selected.

My role was to design and program in HTML and CSS both sites, from there a programmer implemented them into the Kentico backend.
Visit Haven Designs here

Community West

Community west offers adult education, legal aid and child support among many other services for hundreds of underprivileged families in the western suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, this made them a more than worthy charity for some pro-bono design and web development.

After an initial meeting it was discovered the target audience was quite varied, many illiterate, or where English wasn’t their first language, as such the site would need to utilise imagery for important navigation items. Displaying a wide range of nationalities where possible was an important aspect also.

I developed this site on the popular Joomla platform to allow Community West to maintain the site themselves and save costs by keeping it in house. Joomla also allowed the option for a shareholder login section as standard which was a perfect solution.
Click here to view Community West.

Vogue South Yarra

Vogue is a new apartment development being constructed right in the heart of the very affluent suburb of South Yarra in Melbourne Australia. Sporting three levels of shopping at the base of the complex hosting some of the finest brands from around the world, luxury would be considered an understatement. Every inch of this building has been designed to be nothing short of iconic, and naturally they needed a website to match.

After a photo shoot with the face of Vogue South Yarra, Kelly Landry it became immediately apparent the direction the website needed to head, with an emphasis on large monotone visuals from the shoot to fit the style already developed. A pink ribbon had been designed as a secondary visual to be included in all material used, as was the requirement to use the building and imagery on each page along with the black colour palette already decided upon.

The idea from there was simple; with so many elements to include the importance was to not clutter the design with anything further, and by using the photography provided in a clean monotone style it prevented it from becoming the overpower centre piece. With the building completion date still some years off this website is still very much a work in progress.