Turboweb - Website Design Portfolio
Below is a sample of our work showing a variety of websites Turboweb has completed.Website design projects range from static pages through to full blown e-commerce systems.
Better statistics and the news is all good One of the challenges when replacing an existing website with a new one is keeping the site visible to the search engines. Grant Jones IT Manager of Southern Hospitality said their old site didn’t have great statistics but checking on the new site after only 4 days live he found there had been more than 1200 visits. That tells us we got it right which was good news after a long thoughtful development process. In addition, when they search on Google for specific product categories they are now high in the rankings where previously they were three or four pages down.Grant says their website is unique and we agree. When we first started development we spent a lot of time scoping the project and clarifying the outcomes Southern Hospitality was looking for. They knew they had some specific challenges that would not be easy to solve and they chose us, a Dunedin based company, in part because they wanted to be able to talk face to face not just have a voice on the end of a phone. While we know we can do our work from a distance the personal service really helped for a job this complex. The specific issues we needed to understand had to do with the sheer volume of the data on the site and the requirement by Southern Hospitality to have the site link with their existing stock management system to avoid double entry of data. To further complicate things the site needed to cater for two separate audiences – industry customers already holding credit accounts and general public customers. This last point has led to some further customisation which will allow account holders to buy via the website and charge the purchases to their account. Grant tells us we’re a great bunch of guys to work with and he’s delighted that the content management system and open source software means that Southern Hospitality can control the look and feel of the site themselves. In fact, they’ve hired a skilled designer to theme the site and keep the front end true to their business just as we’ve managed the necessary work on the back end. www.southernhospitality.co.nz |
George Street Normal School George Street Normal School highlights strengths, opportunities, learning and character. All of these are evident in their new website launched in time for the new school year.The strength of the development lay in the planning. The school wanted a site that would make it easy to get information out to parents, prospective parents and the wider school community and would be simple for the school to update. They knew the challenge was going to be accommodating many different kinds of content while keeping the website clean, easy to navigate and informative and chose us to create a site that reflected the school’s character. And the school’s approach made all the difference. The school principal and board had a clear agenda, knew what they wanted and had everything well planned. Preparation is important and the school made our job easy. www.georgestreet.school.nz |
Stoney Creek Marque III We built Stoney Creek’s first website back in 2001 and their second site in 2005 so when they decided they needed a more comprehensive content management system, Stoney Creek’s owners asked us to provide a quote and design proposal. In line with good business practise they also gathered proposals from a number of other website companies and after assessing all the proposals they again chose us to complete their new site.Stoney Creek faces some specific challenges because of their particular customer base. The majority of their on line customers are aged 45 and older and live in rural areas so lots of fancy features and pop up windows were not what Stoney Creek was looking for. They knew they needed a clean site that was easy to navigate and quick to upload for customers still on dial up speed. Of course creating a simple, easy to load site for users did not mean a simple, easy to build site. Getting it right was complex. We chose ecommerce platform Magento www.magentocommerce.com and used design company Firebrand for a visually pleasing front end. We then did extensive customisation to include some great features like embedded video, a blog, and a newsletter module that uploads Stoney Creek products into the newsletter before mailing. We knew we had got it right when Stoney Creek owner, Kerry Crawford, told us we had approached the job with the “eye of a retailer” and that he expects the new website is going to do a great job selling his products. www.stoneycreekshop.co.nz |
The Brothers Hotel Boutique Accommodation The Brothers Boutique Hotel website is a static page site designed to show prospective clients the quality and style of accommodation available at the Brothers Hotel.Potential guests can view all the benefits of the Brothers Hotel before making a reservation booking on line from the website. www.brothershotel.co.nz |
McCaul Building Designs McCaul Building Designs offer a full range of building design services. Combining almost 20 years of experience in the building industry with sophisticated computer aided design software.The design work is 100% client focused, they give you what you want. They can create a 3D computer model of your project - that's Virtual Building, and use it to create 3D images and all the plans required for consenting and construction. The new MBDL website is made using the Turboweb Simple Content Manager with design elements provided by MBDL. Hamish has a great product and now has a great website to tell others about it. www.mbdl.co.nz www.mbdl.co.nz |
Nectar Espresso Bar + Cafe For some time now we've been working closely with Stephen and Angela down at the Nectar Espresso Bar + Cafe to put together a website that reflects the spirit of their cafe.The website puts Stephen and Angela firmly in charge allowing them to make changes to anything any time they like. We delivered to them a system that allowed them to:
www.nectarespresso.co.nz |
The Frog Prince The Frog Prince caters especially to the needs of babies, children to the age of five, and for mothers-to-be.They are proud to stock well-known and loved, quality New Zealand brands such as Egg maternity wear, Mokopuna merino wear, Merino Kids and Snugbug. They have a fantastic range of infants and childrens shoes with brands such as Hoof, Clarkes, Bobux and Pediped. They also have a range of organic skin care products for babies. The new website for The Frog Prince makes great use of Turboweb's Simple Content Manager with a fantastic range of information and products. www.thefrogprince.co.nz |
Singing Wood - Ian Davie Luthier Ian Davie, a craftsman Luthier from Purakanui, New Zealand, use the Simple Content Manager to manage his site.Modules utilised in this site include the new Media Player module that uses Flash to stream video to the player, allowing end users to watch the video while it is downloading. In Ian's case a 1.2GB high quality DVD was able to be ripped to a good looking 72MB file. It looks fantastic and adds personality to the whole site. www.singingwood.co.nz |
LANZ Recruitment LANZ Recruitment is an international locum placement site, dedicated to finding jobs for health professionals throughout New Zealand.The site was a major exercise in developing a website that would allow LANZ Recruitments to gather relevant data from both employers and potential locums. The technology in the website allows LANZ to manage content, publish and feature vacancies and run a raft of administration tools in the background. LANZ staff can manage all the tasks involved in bringing employers and locums together, and can now do all the site administration from anywhere in the world with an internet connection. www.lanzrecruitment.com |
Miracle Baby Wear Sam and Harriet at Miracle chose to use our Simple Content Manager to provision their website, and along with a custom theme and reviewed content for all products on their website they have launched a stunning looking website.While they were getting their content in place we put up a holding page that allowed them to capture email addresses of people who were interested in their website. This meant that when they went live today they were able to use SCM to broadcast an email out to those people advising them of the launch. www.miracle.net.nz |
Dicast - Di Tocker Glass Artist Di Tockers uses the Turboweb Simple Content Manager to manage her site.Di utilises the Gallery module to show off her new works to their full potential. The new Gallery Advanced module allows Di to group different sets of work together in their own albums. The site has a simple, professional look that focuses the attention on Di's works of art. www.dicast.co.nz |
Buddinghtree Consultancy Frank Buddingh', an international consulting arborist based in Lawrence, Otago approached us to assist him with updating his website. His old website had been developed for his New York office by an American web design company however it required him to update the HTML files using Dreamweaver or to find someone to complete the updates for him.Both options proved to be difficult and Frank became more and more frustrated at having no easy and immediate way to keep his website current. Knowing the out of date content could be losing him business he started to search for other solutions and found Turboweb on the internet. He was immediately drawn to the Simple Content Manager concept and is now a happy Turboweb client. He has been able to retain his initial website design and the custom login system used to provide his clients with permanent file storage and was delighted that the shift to SCM was seamlessly completed without any down time for his clients. www.buddinghtree.com/ |
The Music Workshop Sara Brown & David Rowbottom use the Turboweb Simple Content Manager with the Store Module to sell their products online.The Music Workshop is able to provide a unique point of difference by providing quality instruments that are fully checked and serviced by a qualified technician before being shipped. The fully enabled Simple Content Manager allows the Music Workshop to manage all their own content from the physical store. They can update, edit and delete their products, news, events, pages and images. www.themusicworkshop.co.nz |
Gardenia Wedding Florist Kay Foley uses the Turboweb Simple Content Manager to manage her wedding florist site.The site allows Kay to make any changes to the site content she wants without having to learn any complex code. The site always looks professional to any potential customer, with images optimised in size for fast loading pages. Text, fonts and colours are all managed automatically by the site. The Gardenia site is fully optimised for search engines and features a secure spam proof contact form. www.gardenia.co.nz |
I-Hub Investment in Innovation I-hub is a company which offering business investment opportunities for any level of investor. They have a wide selection of both new business ideas and new innovations that have been researched and have markets ready and waiting for them.I-hub needed a simple informative website with a nice clean design, that they could make changes to themselves. The Turboweb SCM was a natural fit. www.i-hub.co.nz |
Richard Joseph & Associates Richard Joseph and Associates are part of a strategic alliance with the Polson Higgs Business Consulting Group.Richard Joseph and Associates run the very popular Turning Point programme for individuals and businesses. Their clients include Telecom, Contact Energy, and Air New Zealand. They utilise the Turboweb Simple Content Manager to manage their website, allowing them to post news and events, and change and edit all pages. www.richardjoseph.co.nz |
Artsenta Creative Arts Trust Artsenta Creative Arts Trust utilised the Turboweb Simple Content Manager to upgrade their existing website.One of their in-house artists designed the visual theme to create the feel and taste of the website they were looking for. Staff can now manage all content for the Artsenta website themselves without needing to know any complex code. www.artsenta.org |
Haka Safari Panoramic Photography Haka Safari specialise in unique panoramic images printed on canvas or photgraphic paper.The aspect ratio of their images made the site a very interesting build. The Turboweb Simple Content Manager with the Store module allows Haka Safari to sell their products online. All content images and products can be managed by Haka Safari staff. www.hakasafari.co.nz |
Trevor Coleman - composer, musician Trevor Coleman, 3 times Emmy Award nominated composer, lives and works from his beach house studio in southern New Zealand, where he has produced over 70 documentary film soundtracks since 2000.Trevor uses the Turboweb Simple Content Manager (SCM) to manage his website. With the Media module installed Trevor can display samples of his work as mp3 sound clips or flv video files. www.trevorcoleman.co.nz |