Completed Website Design Projects in 2008 > 2nd Quarter

Bob Coleman has loads of experience and great things to say about property investment. With his new site Bob can edit pages, add new articles, link to important sites on similar topics and subscribe people to his newsletter. The more articles Bob adds to this site, the more interested search engines will become in it and the higher the site will come on the search results pages.

Wayne Callaghan from Emerald Beach sells Hazard Systems emergency products. Wayne supplied his logo (top left) and specified a green on white colour scheme. To avoid the cost of data entry Wayne's site pulls information off the Hazard site in real time.

Environmental consultant Matthew Parnell has this clean, three column site to detail his services, experience and qualifications. Matthew adds links and articles himself. As new articles are added the older ones are automatically archived but are still searchable.

Global Recycling Australia offers a fluorescent lamp / light bulb recycling service. Global Recycling Australia does not dispose of (dump into landfill ) your waste lamps, but use highly developed technology to recycle your lamps, including the mercury containing phosphor powder.

Bellingen Shite Solar Energy Group is a small, community group aiming to simplify and promote alternative energy in the Bellingen Shire. They hold information events and are currently coordinating a group bulk purchasing initiative. Fifty households will each buy a 1 kilowatt power system with the help of a government subsidy and greater spending power being a group member affords.

Patrician Reed owns and runs Thermal Scans, a non-contact, thermal imaging system for the early detection of breast cancer (and other cancers and injuries). With thermal imaging the practitioner does not need touch the subject or do the painful breast x-ray that has been the standard diagnostic tool to date. Patricia is tuned in well to information and research in her field and for this reason her site uses the popular blogging tool “Word Press”. This allows Patricia to add new articles and keep the site fresh and up-to-date. Word Press has a media gallery, so images, links and videos are easily added.

Brewster’s Beach House is pet-friendly accommodation in the heart of Coffs Harbour entertainment precinct. Brewster’s is located a short walk from Jetty Beach, Park Beach and the Coffs Creek walkway (one of Coffs Harbour’s best kept secrets). The Brewster’s web site is brand new. The panorama photos top and bottom were from DWS’s own stock (ok, I added that seagull top center).
Who is Brewster anyway? He is the grumpy, yet lovable pouch on the left of the homepage.

Wes Schwarze, the owner and manager of Airlie House in Scone, NSW contacted DWS after reviewing our portfolio. He saw that we had completed a number of web sites for accommodation providers, even some for historic hotels like his. He particularly saw a web site we had made for Tudor House and Venus Bay Getaway, and wanted something very similar. Wes had an existing web site, and so was not starting from scratch. We migrating this content to his new site then made amendments and changes. Today the site comes up number one on google for the search “guesthouse scone nsw”, above Dawson’s and Takeabreak. It comes up 4 on “motel or hotel  scone nsw”. A pleasing result.

Cougar Corporate is a business coaching and mentoring service based in Coffs Harbour. Owner Mark Clyne assists business owners to build up value in their businesses before they sell - and with many baby boomer due to exit the workforce in the next 4 year - and who have not thought through succession plans, there is a lot to do. This site is new, so does not replace a former version. Mark thought carefully about the presentation and the design went through five iterations. At DWS we try to respond as much as possible to the ideas people bring us. At the end of the day the design has to represent your business, not ours, and you have to be 100% happy that it represents you in the best possible light.

The Woolgoolga Swim School web site is a small but fun web site. The graphics follow a water and tiles theme with lots of happy images supplied by owners Phil and Tina. The key for this site will be to get well place and relevant inbound links. Small web site struggle on today’s Internet because there are many large competitor sites. The trick is to go local and make sure your web site is as well connected to local resources as you can make it. The sites you trade links with should be in your area of interest. For example, the Swim School’s site could be linked to local gym, fitness trainers and sports related web sites.