10 Ways – to manage your website over Christmas
Update 4 December 2017 ... I thought about this list over the weekend as I was putting up the chrissie tree and though it would be useful to update it. On reflection, the list is as similar today as it was when I first put it together a few years ago! The one thing I...
Lismore Gateway Motel and Restaurant on Facebook
The cover images used for the Lismore Gateway Motel and Restaurant's page on Facebook change frequently! Starting with a series of Christmas banners, new ones are added for events such as the recent Bridal Expo, special days such as Valentine's Day, Easter, Mother's...
Leumesin Design
Various things I've created for Leumesin Design: Website. This has morphed a few times into its current form. I've since retired the self hosted potfolio site and merged it with this blog. Much easier to manage! Facebook (and there's also Twitter, Pinterest, Behance,...
Lismore Gateway Restaurant
This is the second site I've completed for the Lismore Gateway Motel and Restaurant. It is a gorgeous new site, and involved creating new content including menus and wine lists, and the ability to book a table. Several landing pages have been created specifically for...
Keepsake Quilts by Leanne Ryall
Keepsake Quilts by Leanne Ryall is a new site, to showcase Leanne's beautiful work - gorgeous keepsake quilts from all sorts of materials - everything from old ties to wedding dresses! Released: 12 November 2012 Visit the site: leanneryall.com.au (not available as at...
Website briefs
No, I'm not talking about underwear! I'm talking about writing a great brief for your website! When I get briefed to create a website or "fix" an existing one, I might get something like this: Client: I really need to do something about my website. Nobody visits it....
A shiny new website!
Ask any website developer which is the most difficult site to develop, and bet they would (nearly) all say their own. After all, a web designer's website has to sell their talents and portfolio, and it can be incredibly difficult to do that when you are your own...
Newtown Review of Books
The Newtown Review of Books is a book review blog - fiction, with special emphasis on crime fiction – memoir, biography, politics and true crime. Co-founded and editored by Jean Bedford and Linda Funnell, both well known in the publishing industry. Peter Corris...
Doctor Concrete
This is the second site I've done for this lovely client (the other was is for Affordable Concrete and Paving). This one is a customised Wordpress site which is deliberately small and simple! Release date: 27 August 2012 Visit the site: doctorconcrete.co.nz
MJ’s Dance Studio
This site was originally a single landing page. It has been refreshed and reworked in Wordpress. Additional functionality expands on the original embedded video and includes slideshows, Paypal for DVD sales, Mailchimp for eNewsletter signup, expanded social media...
Know Yourself Grow Yourself (KYGY)
This site redevelopment was stage one of a bigger plan! A new, fresh public website was needed to publicise personal development courses that were being held in September and October 2012, with the second stage of being development of an online course in 2013. Because...
Cranky Cow Milk
This was a great site to work on! Not only was it for a new product (no legacy bits!), but the client was very involved and engaged in the whole process. He had significant input into the design, which makes him the exception rather than the rule with regard to client...
Affordable Concrete and Paving, Christchurch NZ
I've just finished work on a complete redesign of the Affordable Concrete and Paving website - with the brand new site released last Friday (22 June 2012). The site is for a family-owned business who have been in business in Christchurch for more than 20 years. Their...
alanbeazley.com (eWasteMuch?)
I've just finished a new landing page, designed to be a gateway to Alan’s social networking sites and the soon to be released blog on the topic of eWaste. Here's the Wikipedia definition of eWaste, but you can also go to Alan's site/s to find out more as well! The...
Summerland Credit Union
This was a redevelopment of the existing staff intranet for the Summerland Credit Union. I worked with their in-house teams (Marketing and IT) and specifically worked on converting 300+ pdf documents to html, created the navigation framework, and subsequently...
Women in Contemporary Music
The name says it all. This was a beautiful site to work on and even though it is a few years old, I think it still looks fresh and contemporary. (The site no longer looks as I designed it, and was given a corporate look late in 2012). Release date: 2009 Visit the site...
QULOC
I redesigned this website for QULOC (the Queensland University Libraries Office of Co-operation). The existing site that hadn't been refreshed for some years and hadn't aged well (see screenshot below). We virtually started from scratch - retaining what content was...
Southern Cross GeoScience
A new site for Southern Cross GeoScience, a new research centre at at Southern Cross University (2009). The overall design was done by the SCU advertising agency (see screenshot), and my task was to turn that design into a fully functioning website. There was some...
The Hotel School Sydney
I worked with the Hotel School for many years, designing, developing and managing their site. Everything from copy writing, adapting print designs for the website, graphic design, training, support, advice, guidance, and everything in between. Great clients who...
First Year at SCU
This site was developed as part of a wider program of activities to support first year students at SCU. I was given much latitude in terms of design, and ultimately used "Slidedeck". Even though this is an "off-the-shelf" product, it did need customisation to fit...
Assignment Navigator
This site was part of a set of initiatives to help support first year students at SCU. The original design was done by FLDS - Flexible Learning Development Services at SCU - which I then adapted to work as a fully functioning website. Sprites, embedded video, special...
Impact! Captivating Communications
Release date: 2009 Visit the site: robertgrayson.com.au (not available as at April 2016)
Research at SCU
I worked on a number of websites for the various research centres at Southern Cross University. Most of these sites would, most likely, look quite different now, but original sites included: SCU Whale Research Centre (2007): Very simple, but featured some beautiful...
SCU Alumni
The Alumni site was redesigned in 2010 and is part of the larger Corporate and Community Relations portfolio at SCU. The screenshot I've used here is the final site, just a few days before it was released (which is why the news stories are test/text...