Client Focus: Neco
By Sam PascuaWe are extremely pleased to announce the launch of the revamped Neco website, we love the way the final site looks, it was worth all the effort.
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FlexiCar
By Ky NguyenFlexiCar approached Design Industries to assist with a seamless integration of their payment module from their main website into their Customer Relationship Management System (CRM)
The Delivery
After consultation with the prime stakeholders at FlexiCar, Design Industries developed a custom solution to their online payment problem. Design industries built a custom solution using the SecurePay Payment Gateway that integrated with the FlexiCar internal backend CRM and front end website. The solution took into account the safe processing and storage of sensitive personal Credit Card and Direct Entry information.
The solution enables FlexiCar to accept payments via their website and get real time authorisation, ensuring they receive payment and confirming that payment has been received for their fabulous cars and other online services.
Read moreBaby Bunting
By Sam PascuaTo sell such a wide range of products online, Baby Bunting needed an effective ecommerce system that could be fully integrated with its marketing efforts. The website design and development experts and Melbourne based Design Industries knew just what to do and tackled the project with unbridled enthusiasm.
The Delivery
First and foremost, Design Industries made sure that the new website kept the look and feel of Baby Bunting’s well thought out brand image. Underneath the inviting pink and blue graphics, the Design Industries team modernised the online brand by focusing on improving and enhancing the website’s core functionality.
The team chose to build the new site around Magento, which is an incredibly powerful, fully integrated ecommerce system. The talented web developers customised Magento to meet Baby Bunting’s unique needs, identifying which combinations of features would provide the strongest ecommerce system for the growing company. The new website is fully integrated with powerful reporting tools, full SEO-friendly text, a payment gateway, and optimisation for the iPhone and other mobile devices.
But the team didn’t stop there. Baby Bunting was also given a complete content management system, making it easy for Baby Bunting employees to update site content and add, modify, and delete products as the company’s product offerings change over time. The site is also fully integrated with an e-newsletter system, making it easy to communicate with current and prospective customers.
Managers at Baby Bunting can access user-friendly reports on all the website statistics with a few simple clicks. This allows the company to analyse site visits and identify ways to improve the shopping experience both now and in the future. The flexibility and strong performance of the new site have ensured that Baby Bunting maintains a strong position in the competitive market for baby products.
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Client Focus: AMSF – Australian Motor Sport Foundation
By Sam PascuaWe are extremely pleased to announce the launch of a recent website – AMSF – Australian Motor Sport Foundation
Villa Maria
By Sam PascuaAs one of the largest non-profit organisations in Victoria, Villa Maria provides quality services and programs to seniors and people with disabilities to enrich their lives and the communities in which they live. The organisation’s website is essential to the success of the program, because it provides general information, event calendars, and education while supporting the organisation’s efforts to recruit and retain volunteers and the individuals who are served by Villa Maria’s mission.
The Delivery
Design Industries, in conjunction with Melbourne based IT company RTG, led Villa Maria through a complete overhaul of its website, evaluating the organisation’s strengths, vision, desires and challenges. Recognising that Villa Maria’s audience reacts positively to strong visuals, Design Industries designed a site with numerous images to highlight the activities and joy that Villa Maria brings to its stakeholders. These photos were combined with a design and a colour palette that aligned with the corporate branding strategy to convey a professional vision and a consistent image.
Design Industries also devoted time and additional resources behind the scenes to develop a strong content management solution for the website.
The CMS integrates with the eCommerce system to provide a payment gateway for donations, which allows Villa Maria to easily organise and manage all donations and other income received online.
The final result for Villa Maria is a visually appealing website designed specifically for its target audience. Design Industries provided the non-profit group with a cost-effective solution for enhancing its online presence, as well as strong functionality on the backend to help Villa Maria manage its day-to-day business.
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Confederation of Australian Motor Sport
By Sam PascuaCAMS was ready to take the next step forward in engaging motor sport enthusiasts by harnessing the power of the internet. The organization wanted to completely revamp its website, creating and incorporating an extranet and intranet for its members and employees that could help to streamline the organisation’s processes and procedures. This was a hugely ambitious undertaking, but Design Industries was up to the challenge.
The Delivery
The professional teams at Melbourne-based Design Industries tackled this large, ambitious project one step at a time, completely redesigning the site and reworking the underlying infrastructure. The talented and creative designers created an ultra-modern design that met all of CAMS’ requirements within the specified time period.
Meanwhile, developers used Sitecore, which is arguably the best content management system (CMS) available in the market today, to create a new, powerful, and flexible framework for the CAMS website.
The backend is based on fast, intuitive edging, which uses the same ribbon-style interface as Microsoft Office 2007, making the editing environment comfortable and intuitive for the end users – even for CAMS employees who have little or no experience in web-editing.
The web development work also accommodated multi-site deployment, meaning that CAMS can now manage an unlimited number of sites, sharing information and backend code across sites with ease. In addition, Design Industries focused on search-engine optimization (SEO), using Google-friendly URLs and other techniques to instantly improve the site’s organic search results.
All this work resulted in an exciting, compelling website that speaks directly to Australian motor sport enthusiasts. The state-of-the-art CMS supports a fully functional intranet and extranet, with many possibilities to accommodate and support ecommerce functions in the near future.
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Pet Plan
By Sam PascuaSometimes it is necessary to start small and then build up to what you would like. This is exactly what happened with the Petplan website design project. Design Industries began the project by creating the first Petplan website based on a template website and a couple of forms. After tremendous online success, Petplan decided that it was ready for something bigger and better.
The website has since been redone, with a highly customised and modern design. Petplan.com.au now quoting complex insurance premiums and its e-commerce function allows customers to apply and pay for their insurance over the web. In addition, an intranet / extranet has been deployed, allowing channel partners to register and mange their accounts.
Technically speaking, the website has a highly concentrated focus on usability standards, including the w3c standards. It also has an XHTML/CSS build and works across multiple browsers and platforms.
Petplan reports that 99% of all breeder registrations and activity are now performed via the website. The web design and build have won numerous accolades and awards (see below), and this experience has proven beyond all doubt that big things can grow from small beginnings.
Read moreRichmond Hill Cafe and Larder
By Sam PascuaRichmond Hill Cafe & Larder wanted to improve its online presence and rise to the top of its industry in terms of online sales for its diverse product line. The company wanted its website to be more inviting and attractive while still providing all the requisite functionality for product sales, regardless of shipping difficulties.
The Delivery
Design Industries delivered a warm, inviting, and streamlined design that fully integrates with the latest and greatest e-commerce platform. The system meets or exceeds all industry standards and is fully compliant and compatible with users’ web 2.0 technology. Design Industries also integrated a full newsletter campaign manger into the site, so Richmond Hill can communicate easily with its growing customer base. With a few simple clicks, Richmond Hill managers can get user-friendly reports with all their website statistics, allowing them to analyse the flow of visitors throughout the site and thereby improve the online shopping experience.
Finally, Design Industries provided a fully integrated content management system (CMS). This allows Richmond Hill employees to manage the website’s content from a single, user-friendly control panel. Even with little or no knowledge of HTML, they can create, modify, and delete website content within minutes, ensuring the site is always up to date.
Read morePiranha Off Road Products
By Sam PascuaAlways striving to be the best company in the market, Piranha wanted to update its website with a striking, memorable design and a great backend. The new site would have to help connect customers and suppliers while strengthening Piranha’s unique brand. The development and design team at Design Industries seized the opportunity to apply its technical expertise to the project.
The Delivery
Design Industries created a striking, modern design that conveys movement, speed, and the thrill of off-road adventures. The site strengthens the Piranha brand and leaves a lasting impression on site visitors. In addition, the new site meets or exceeds all industry standards and is fully compliant and compatible with web 2.0 technology, ensuring that the site displays correctly when viewed through all the most popular browsers.
With a few simple clicks, Piranha can get user-friendly reports on all the website statistics, thereby analysing the flow of visitors throughout the site and indentifying how to improve the end users’ experience.
Design Industries also gave the site a full user-friendly backend complete with e-newsletter functionality for communicating with clients and suppliers. Finally, Design Industries provided a fully integrated content management system (CMS). This allows Piranha employees to manage the website’s content from a single, user-friendly control panel. Even with little or no knowledge of HTML, Piranha can create, modify, and delete website content quickly and easily, no matter how rapidly its product offerings are changing to reflect trends in the 4WD industry.
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