Web Design Melbourne News

New website - Melbourne Real Estate

2009-08-28T10:00:00.001+10:00

We're happy to announce the launch of a new site for Melbourne Real Estate (MRE.) Cornwell have done a great job re-branding MRE, their new logo, website and supporting text 'The One' is reflected clearly in a strong visual message throughout the brand.

The website reflects this new look and feel throughout. Allowing visitors to look through current and previous projects, look through the MRE team, understand their vision and follow information their in the form of their new blog. Interested parties can sign up for the MRE 'First Club', view video of certain projects and check out live maps and information.

The new website operates on our content management system, letting the MRE team update and add content as the need arises. It's a great outcome with a clean, user friendly site with accessible content.

Check out the Melbourne Real Estate's new website - www.melbournerealestate.com.au

ABC TV - New Blog Design

2009-08-24T09:00:00.000+10:00

ABC TV utilizes has a very active online presence. They run dozens of blogs, have active Twitter accounts and proactively push their message out through various online mediums.

We re-designed and developed the new Official ABC TV blog, currently running in TypePad. We worked to give the blog a new look and feel, whilst also allowing for more social network share options like Facebook Fan pages, StumbleUpon, Digg and more. There's a live feed of ABC TV's Twitter feed and the opportunity to subscribe to receive updates!

Check out the Official ABC TV blog here!

Full website for Stockland - Gardiner Apartments

2009-08-18T09:00:00.002+10:00

Earlier in the year we finished a registration of interest site for the Gardiner Apartments. Following on from that, the full site is dynamic, engaging and user friendly and it showcases a lot of content in a clean and accessible way.

Working with Matt from Cornwell, we're really happy with the result. Clean image transitions, a little well placed Flash and great content really help pull it all together.

Take a look at - www.stocklandtooronga.com.au

Film Victoria Online eBook

2009-08-14T08:30:00.002+10:00

Film Victoria recently announced the release of it's new Film Melbourne Now book. A great publication showcasing Victoria as a premiere film destination. We've taken this book and created an animated, online version of that sits off the Film Melbourne Now website.

The original thought here was to convert the book to an online PDF viewer, with animated corner pages and the like. Although a good concept, this is far from unique and didn't feel it would do justice to all the work that had gone into the hard copy version of the book. So, taking the original files we not only animated and put the book online, but care has been taken to offer some unique animation on almost every page throughout the process.

Anyways, don't take our word for it, check out the new Film Melbourne Now book online here!

Keep smiling,
Mark

ANZSOC - new site

2009-08-10T09:02:00.002+10:00

A step away from the architecture and design, we also just launched the new ANZSOC site. To quote their own content. "The society is devoted to promoting criminological study, research and practice in the region and bringing together persons engaged in all aspects of the field."

We've worked closely with the team at ANZSOC to update their previous site into an easily content managed system, refresh the look and feel, include some branded HTML emails and notifications and have added an online transaction component with NAB for membership renewal and notifications.

Online at - www.anzsoc.org

Neometro - new website!

2009-08-07T09:57:00.000+10:00

We've been working with Neometro for a couple of years now. With multiple projects and award winning architecture, their new website reflects some of the great spaces they've made happen over years.

Working with Cornwell's design, we've created a dynamically driven site with a unique menu structure that let's the visitor appreciate the large, generous photography, register their interest and check out previous comms and information on Neometro.

Head to - www.neometro.com.au

Wangaratta Festival of Jazz

2009-08-05T09:07:00.001+10:00

In its 20th year the Wangaratta Festival of Jazz, is one of Australia's premiere jazz events.

Efront was proud this year to design and develop a new website for the festival! Working with Kay and the team Efront created a new site running on our CMS, allowing for easy updates of programs, images, text and content in general.

We're happy with the result and am sure this years event is going to be huge!

www.wangarattajazz.com

Head Records - Jazzhead - new websites!

2009-08-03T09:16:00.001+10:00

Our relationship with Jazzhead/Head Records goes back almost 10 years. We've enjoyed working on dozens of artists sites, promotional projects, email newsletters, websites, ecommerce and more.

A refresh of the two main sites was getting to be a little overdue. We've worked closely with Andrew, Sheena and the team to be able to create a CMS driven website that gives them much better control of their content. When adding a new artist, the CMS has been customised to allow for copy, album artwork, mp3's and links for iTunes and fulfillment options for online purchasing. Outside of the artist pages, there's a live search facility, newsletter subscription option and a blog!

We're really happy with the result for the two sites and think it's only going to help Jazzhead and Head Records get the good tunes message out there :)

www.headrecords.com & www.jazzhead.com

Mark

Website for MDM Design

2009-07-30T11:00:00.002+10:00

We were recently approached by Livio DeMarchi at MDM Design regarding the development of their new website.

MDM are located up the road in Flinders Lane and along with their Sydney office, the team specialises in brand design and investor communication design. Efront was charged with the challenge of creating a content managed website for the team at MDM that stayed true to their vision. We're really happy with the outcome, as are the guys at MDM, great project photos, a great design and it's all updateable via our content management system.

Go to - www.mdmdesign.com.au

Melbourne Open House 2009

2009-07-26T12:47:00.025+10:00

Wow, where did the last 4 months go? We've been really busy and finally getting around to posting some updates on what we've been working on.

MELBOURNE OPEN HOUSE
Organised and run by the Committee for Melbourne's Future Focus Group, Melbourne Open House (MOH) is a part of the State of Design Festival. Once a year a whole bunch of interesting buildings in Melbourne are opened up (for free!) to the public, guided tours, talks by architect and a speaker series are all a part of what makes this day great. Efront was responsible for the website development, registration and all electronic communications regarding the event. This year the event had over 50,000 people in Melbourne! A great success all round....

Check out - www.moh.org.au
Lots more to come and still to do yet.
Keep smiling,
Mark

Websites, Emails, Surveys and more!

2009-06-02T14:42:00.006+10:00

Our blogging record has suffered a little recently but there's been some great work going on....

Stockland Tooronga - www.stocklandtooronga.com.au

A new single page site for Stockland and their new development gardiner Apartments. Designed by the team at Cornwell, the site captures interested parties information in a nice clean form and showcases some great images through a Flash slideshow.

made.living - www.madeliving.com.au

A full featured site running on the Efront CMS (Backstage). Designed by Philippa at The Candy Factory, this site allows the team at Made to update content, add images, video, news and text as they see fit. A great looking site that helps them present a great product and service.

Grocon - www.pixelbuilding.com.au

Still on the property front, Grocon have announced their exciting new vision for the old Carlton Brewery site in Swanston St. The Pixel building will be the first carbon neutral building in Australia and potentially the world. We've taken Cornwell's design and created a placeholder site that showcases the brand, vision, media and contact information along with a video flythrough of the site to be.

Along with all this there's and a stack of email campaigns have been developed for Philip Island Tourism, Carbon Edge, Film Victoria and Ambulance Victoria to name a few.

There's some great work in the pipeline too, with 7 new websites coming together for Cengage Learning, a new site in the works for Neometro, Australia New Zealand Society of Criminology, Victorian Actors Benevolent Trust, Otek, Melbourne Open House 2009 and some blog and email work for ABC Digital!

We're happy to be able to help these organisations, businesses and groups make the most of their time online and look forward to wrapping up the (financial) year with a bang.

Keep on truckin',

Mark

New website for the Schools First project

2009-05-06T09:30:00.004+10:00

Busy times here at Efront in the run to the end of financial year, lots of news to come but what better place to start than Schools First.

In October 2008 we started work with the NAB on the Schools First project and now we're proud to announce the launch of the full Schools First website

If you're unfamiliar with the project here's a blurb from the site :

"Schools First is a fantastic new initiative that is about improving outcomes for young people. At its heart, Schools First is about bringing together students, teachers, parents and community members, to support each other and help improve student outcomes."

There's a prizepool of $15 million dollars being awarded to schools and their partnerships over a 3 year period! A fantastic opportunity.

Our involvement with NAB and the Schools First partners (Australian Centre for Education Research and the Foundation for Young Australians) has been all around the design and development of the Schools first website. It's been a great process to be involved with and to date we've had the pleasure of helping hundreds of schools across the country register for workshops online via the website! With the inclusion of community partners, there's thousands of registrations being processed and organized via the site.

The new site includes a calendar of events, live polls, social network interaction, a comprehensive search tool and (of course) great content! All of this is and more running on the Efront Backstage content management system, allowing the content owners a quick and easy way to keep content fresh, up to date and accurate!

We're proud to be involved in such an excellent project and we're excited about continuing to deliver great tools to all involved!

www.schoolsfirst.edu.au

Mark

12 months on - Mum's Grapevine

2009-04-20T13:49:00.007+10:00

On May 6, 2007 we blogged about our first meeting with Caroline and Vicky and the Mum's Grapevine idea. Well, twelve months on and Caroline has taken the business to a whole new level. Via referral, the site now boasts over 20,000 subscribers, all receiving the weekly email!

Mum's Grapevine is essentially a way for people to stay aware of discounts, specials and offers across a range of maternity, children, toddler and baby items. From strollers to holidays to good old nappies (or diapers depending on how much TV you watch) there's always a stack of items coming out in the weekly newseltter. The idea is simple, sign up on the site, receive a weekly email, save money! The idea is great because it's a no brainer, who doesn't want to save cash?

Efront built a small site and workflow that allows users to register their interest in the Mum's Grapevine newsletter and refer friends and family. We then built a HTML email newsletter for Caroline, that looks and feels like the site which she can populate with content each week and send out to her subscribers! Behind the scenes there's a little ad management tool or two in place that monetise the whole idea for her.

Mum's Grapevine is front of mind at the moment as we've recently finished developing a new HTML email template. Anna K's design is clean, fresh and looks fantastic. We've taken that and ensured compatibility across Outlook(s), Apple Mail, gMail, Yahoo, Hotmail and even Lotus Notes.

The new HTML newsletter can be seen here.

So to sign off, congratulations to Carline for making a success of the last 12 months and we wish her and the team all the best for the next 12 months!

Mark

New site for Knowing & Film Victoria

2009-03-26T12:04:00.003+11:00

Today the new Nicholas Cage film Knowing makes its debut, the sci-fi thriller entirely filmed in Melbourne, Australia. Already getting great reviews (David - 3.5 and Margaret - 4) it's been likened to Donnie Darko and The Sixth Sense.

Working with Film Victoria we've made an addition to the Filmed In Melbourne website, with a new micro-site detailing some of the great location shots and information from the film. It's the second Nicholas Cage film to be shot in Melbourne (Ghost Rider previously) and it's excellent to see the town we love pulling more international attention.

So, love him or hate him, get out and support your city by seeing Knowing.

www.filmedinmelbourne.com.au/knowing

Mark

New website for Soho Projects and busy times

2009-02-16T16:28:00.004+11:00

We've been working with Jane from Sinclair design recently on the new site for Soho Projects.

"Soho Projects is the result of a collaboration between two brothers, Josh and Shay Nassi. Josh has over twenty years in the construction business, Project Managing an extraordinarily diverse range of large, medium and small scale projects. Shay brings to Soho Projects a degree in Technical Engineering, as well as two decades on building and construction sites - both in Australia and overseas."

We turned Jane's design into a fully funcitonal CMS driven site that allows the Soho team to update client lists, show off their excellent work through Flash image galleries and update copy, documents and images throughout.

In other news, we're in the middle of our busiest February ever, with multiple projects on the go. Watch this space for a bunch of new work coming soon for Cornwell, NAB, Special Olympics Victoria and many more!

Cheers
Mark

MySpace reskin

2009-01-16T14:51:00.004+11:00

Coming to the end of another week and January's flying by. As people get back into the swing of things Christmas is starting to feel like it was months ago already! It's a good time of year for us to take stock of the year that's gone and get prepped for another good one in 2009.

Just before Christmas we tackled the demon that is MySpace and had a great result for an Aussie band Zoophyte. Cam from the band designed the page and we waded through MySpace to apply his look and feel. We reckon it's come up really well, you can check it out here.

We've got lots on the go at the moment and will have some great new work up in February, have a great weekend all.

Mark

Cornwell Design : New website

2008-12-24T13:45:00.006+11:00

We've been working with the team at Cornwell for a couple of years now and it's been great. Beautiful imagery, great ideas and excellent design is par for the course.

From a web developers point of view we get the challenge of translating the vision from the Cornwell team into dynamic digital content. Our work has spanned small registration websites, digital ad campaigns, full service Flash websites and large content managed sites for international companies. We've worked with property developers, charity organisations and initiatives driven by the Committee for Melbourne to name a few.

So when it came time to build and develop Cornwell's own website, we were both excited and a little nervous about the prospect. Cornwell didn't fail to deliver, designing a site that is stunning and engaging all at once. Utilising our content management system (Efront Backstage) we took Cornwell's design and built one of our favourite sites to date.

www.cornwell.com.au

Built entirely in HTML/CSS, the site showcases some of Cornwell's best work through imagery and text. Including a projects list, blog, contact details and other content, the entire site is updateable via a normal web browser, allowing for different layout selection, document, image, video and text inclusion by the Cornwell team. A great way for us to finish the year.

We're looking forward to getting stuck into 2009 with some great projects on the horizon. Meanwhile, have an excellent Christmas and New Year.

Mark, David and Darren.

3 new websites for Builders, Musicians and Architects

2008-12-12T15:17:00.003+11:00

Coming into Christmas is always a busy time, though things are a little crazy at the moment. The launch of three more sites this week has kept us humming along here in Little Collins street.

Building and Beyond has been a great project to work on. Building and Beyond is run by Joe and Justin and for the last ten years has traded as Justin Moylan Building. Designed by Phil at The Candy Factory,the site runs on Efront Backstage (our CMS) and let's B&B updated projects, images, text and press articles.

Tin Alley String Quartet "...has rapidly achieved recognition as one of the most exciting young quartets, not only in their home of Australia but also on the world chamber music stage."

Having recently undergone a makeover courtesy of Marke, updating all their materials, press shots and their website, Efront developed the new site for Michelle, Lerida and Justin. Tin Alley are able to update images, create new pages, add text and documents and run a performance calendar for their upcoming shows.

Rachcoff Vella are a boutique architectural firm based in Melbourne. We've worked with Jane Sinclair to present a small, Flash based placeholder site that announces Rachcoff Vella to the world and is able to highlight some of their work. We're looking forward to developing their full site and ideas further in the new year!

That's it from us for now, have a great weekend everyone.

Mark

Three New Websites

2008-11-28T16:08:00.005+11:00

The end of another busy week, Christmas just around the corner and it looks like things aren't slowing down! We're happy to announce three new websites this week for three very different clients.

Fitzpatrick Woods work with "governments, multi-lateral agencies, industry, donor agencies, unions, non-government organisations – all on a wide range of themes and issues." It's been a pleasure working with Tim, Sarah and Carolyn on the launch of their new site. Interface design by Luke Gerner over at Marke, the new site is wholly updateable FWC can add/edit and delete copy, images, video and create pages on the fly. For a diverse and ever changing company, a flexible site is not only important but essential. We're looking forward to continuing our relationship and helping them reach more people.

Made Living - 'offer a full range of european designed kitchens and accessories ideal for you and your family'. Currently just a placeholder, Jane Sinclair has designed a look and feel that leaves us wanting more, keep an eye on this space for the full site soon!

Filmed In Melbourne - we've been fortunate enough to have worked for Film Victoria for a couple of years now and have honestly enjoyed every second. We've designed and developed this new site that showcases Melbourne as the premier film destination that it is. You can view an active Google map highlighting the areas throughout the city that films like Ghost Rider, Charlotte's Web and more have been filmed at. The site presents great shots of this city we love along with video and stacks of great information.

Creativity Australia

2008-11-11T15:26:00.004+11:00

Last night we attended the launch of Creativity Australia at the Sofitel in Melbourne.

It was a great night and we are proud to be a creative partner for the cause.

A highlight for me was seeing Dame Elisabeth Murdoch at the event. At a few months off 100, Dame Elisabeth is an amazing individual, supporting worthy programs like Creativity Australia.

We developed the website for the program in conjunction with Cornwell's design team and even managed to catch up with Amelia, Deanna and Giuliana from Cornwell for a celebratory school night beverage. The End. David

http://www.creativityaustralia.org.au

Websites Launched

2008-11-11T13:53:00.000+11:00

It's been a busy few weeks and we're really pleased with the work we've delivered.

Here are a few of our newest web design clients that have had their websites launched over the last week.

JF Capital Partners

Angela and Paul from JFCP have been great to work with on the redevelopment of their website. Proactive, responsive and know exactly what they want. JFCP is part of J.P. Morgan Asset Management which has a strict style guide. The site conforms to the style guide so it fits in with the J.P. Morgan group. This site uses our "Backstage" CMS to manage content and helps JFCP keep their clients up to date.

Camatic

If you want to talk about a home grown international success story, Camatic is a great example. Camatic design and manufacture commercial and venue seating around the world. Take a look through their project gallery to get an idea of the scale of the stadiums and venues they fit out, the images are fantastic. Managing the huge amount of content on this website is a breeze with our content management system driving the site admin.

lilli Apartments

This promises to be a spectacular development. We've helped with a simple web placeholder site which was designed by Cornwell. Take a look at the registration form and see if you notice anything - a clever little gem included by Wes from Cornwell.

A great team effort on these projects which had some very tight deadlines - but most importantly great results all round.

It's a beautiful day in Melbourne today - so don't forget to look out your window and take some of it in. fin.

David

Melbourne Cup Day

2008-11-03T14:01:00.010+11:00

The Melbourne Cup carnival is one of the biggest sporting events in Australia. Tomorrow the nation will again pause for the running of the worlds most famous 3200m horse race. It's a great time of year to be in Melbourne and Cup day is all about catching up with friends for a BBQ and to hopefully finding a winner or two. The Flemington track can expect 110,00 plus patrons, in what is a great party atmosphere. If you've never been to a Melbourne Cup do yourself a favour and get to one!

Interesting to note that those of us at work today are in the minority, with most Melburnians opting to take the Monday off and enjoy a 4 day weekend. We're here keeping things ticking over. Whatever you're up to have fun and enjoy your cup day.

For what it's worth here are our Melbourne Cup selections:
David - 18 Profound Beauty
Mark - 8 Mad Rush
Darren - 5 Nom Du Jeu (with chances to Master O'Reilly and C'est La Guerre)

Happy punting!
Darren

The Source Espresso

2008-10-24T16:55:00.004+11:00

Happy Friday everyone, awesome, big week and lotsa work on.

Nice to finish today with a live site for the coffee guru from Sydney, Russ & The Source Espresso. A Wordpress reskin - template build, the site offers Russ a chance to blog his travels, learnings and movements in the coffee-sphere (?).

The Source had some great imagery we were able to take and manipulate to get a site up that's functional, SEO friendly and (we think) looks great.

www.thesourceespresso.com

Avagreatweekend,

Mark

Reclaim St Kilda

2008-10-17T11:04:00.002+11:00

A few weeks back we met Sean O'Donohue. Sean's an endorsed candidate of CAPP, the Community Alliance of Port Phillip and is standing in the council elections for the City of Port Phillip.

Sean came to Efront looking for a website that would let him communicate directly with locals in his area and help to facilitate discussion. Over the last couple of weeks, we've worked with Adrian at Shopfront Design and reskinned a Wordpress blog to provide Sean with not only a website, but a functioning blog too. This kind of tool lets Sean invite discussion and provides a means of getting his message out there whilst leaving his comments and posts open for debate. We've also added a small form that allows visitors to leave their details, capturing this information in an online database that Sean has access to as needs be.

We're really happy with the outcome and wish Sean all the best!

www.reclaimstkilda.org.au

Happy Friday all,
Mark

Australia Cares Website

2008-10-03T08:41:00.007+10:00

Australia Cares is an independent national organisation dedicated to creating large-scale and sustainable positive social change.

The new Australia Cares website was just launched last week and we though we'd take the opportunity to do give a shout out.

Keep an eye on Australia Cares - they have some really exciting initiatives coming up and are involved in the Schools First project which was launched today.

Oh, and a big thank you to the team for the Krispy Kremes, I think we are still bouncing around from all that sugar...

http://www.australiacares.org.au

David