Website rebuild for The Academy
We've been flat out and unfortunately our posts have decreased over the last few weeks. Why you ask? Well we're happy to announce one of the premium sites that have been chewing up our time of late...more in the next post ;)
The Australian National Academy of Music
"The Australian National Academy of Music (the Academy) is Australia’s premiere institution for training the country’s finest young classical musicians."
It was a real pleasure working for a premiere institution like The Academy and without a doubt their South Melbourne location is one of the more stunning offices I've visited. The Academy previously had a site built entirely in Flash that was no longer serving their needs. The brief was to create a site that could be content managed, improve search engine visibility and allow their audience access to information easily and without fuss.
We worked very hard with Melinda, Matt and the team at The Academy to create a site with intuitive and user-focused navigation that was search engine friendly and had the ability to be updated easily. Using the Efront CMS (content management system) the site allows event creation that links into a calendar for easy access throughout the site. Each page and area can be updated, including the banner images, home page content and standard content areas, covering images, text, bookings and dates.
All in all a great result and a success.
More to come....
Mark
Labels: anam, australian-national-academy-of-music, the-academy, web-design, Web-Design-Melbourne
Posted on Wednesday, August 27, 2008
iPhone & Wordpress, a powerful combo
One of the most exciting things about the iPhone is the app store. Watching what other developers are doing in a commercial and non-commercial space is great. Leading companies like Salesforce have proprietary apps out there and on the flipside, great open source organizations like Wordpress have Wordpress for the iPhone.
Such a nice, standalone application can let Wordpress users jump online and update their blog/site ANYWHERE that they can get 3G or wifi coverage. We recently launched a site for Milke Performance Services that runs on the Wordpress platform. An application like this would let the Milke team live post STRAIGHT to their website from a show, performance....anywhere. Great excuse to get a new phone too ;)
Personally I think this type of mobile blogging (see Twitter/Plurk etc) is just the beginning. We're often reading stories about services like Twitter announcing breaking news, being the first one's on the scene with images, links, text etc. This type of information and fast access to updates is only made easier on a device that is accessible, easy to use and available to all.
We're currently working on some iPhone applications just to be across the development potentials and we're very excited about the possibilities. Watch this space and have a great week.
Mark
Posted on Monday, August 04, 2008
New site for the performance industry : MILKE
It's a good feeling getting a new site live. Achievement, progress, ticking off something from that 'to do' list and the freedom to move to the next job with a slightly clearer head. This is all fine except when you really like working with a client, then it's all about "how do I get to do more with these guys" and "wonder what they're doing now" and "I miss them".
Well maybe not the last one, but we had a ball working on Milke with Laura and the team. Milke describe themselves as "...a Melbourne based company assisting creative people realise their ambitions, whether it’s producing a show, managing a project or managing a career." Milke has worked with Marke to develop and create their brand and Efront (that's us) to get their digital footprint (electronic handshake/bandwidth brand/electro imprint etc etc) out there.
Running on the Wordpress platform with a fully customsied template, the site is completely updateable and links in to a subscription system that let's Milke stay in touch with interested peeps via html email. We're happy with the outcome and we're pretty confident Laura and the gang are too.
Now.... *waiting for free tix to next big show*
Posted on Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Melbourne company Property 10 has a new website!
"For many years Tim and Mark had been providing investment marketers with residential property on a wholesale level. They recognise the lack of service many end clients receive but more importantly, the poor value in pricing that end consumers face.
Acknowledging they have superior product and pricing to go direct to the market they embarked on a strategy to “cut out the middle man” and deliver a sound service to match. They embarked on delivering a complete property investment service that will manage an investment purchase from start to end including land and construction, taxation, finance, legal and property management. A true one stop shop that any consumer or partner could interface with."
Property 10 is the result of this work and partnership. It's been great working with Tim, Mark, Ange and the team. With design assistance from Bec Smith at Gamma Ray the site has come up swimmingly. Included in the site are some hand coded calculators and a newsletter subscription service along with nice clear and accessible content.
Congratulations to all involved and we know it'll be another great addition to the Property 10 arsenal.
Cheers
Mark
Labels: property, property 10, Web-Design-Melbourne, web-development
Posted on Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Efront and the EJ Whitten Legends Game
From November 2007, Efront has worked alongside the team at Baker Smith Management to get the Legends Game website developed, built, tested and operating. The site is built on a custom content management system, allowing Baker Smith to add pages, video, images, copy and news feeds as they see fit. Along with all of this is an e-commerce component that allows for various online transactions as needed.
We were pretty chuffed to see our logo up on the big screen at the game and a little recognition in the footy record throughout was pretty sweet! The three fellas to your right are David, Adam and Darren...enjoying the hospitality at the Legends Dinner.
Efront was proud to have sponsored this landmark Melbourne event and is looking forward to being involved next year in the web design and development of the Legends Game!
Oh and for the record, the All Stars beat the Vics by two points ;)
Hopin your day is excellent,
Mark
Posted on Friday, July 04, 2008