Websites for architects & designers.
we design.all-sorts is a small, solution-focused consultancy near Wellington, New Zealand.
We pride ourselves in providing quality web development & ongoing support to our local & international clients — for very reasonable prices.
How are we more suited to your project than our competitors?
We’re cost-effective!
Our solutions leverage the power of Open-Source software technologies, and we pass the resulting savings onto our clients.
We’re small, professional, efficient:
We’re a tightly-knit team of two: we can grapple with a complex task with focus and clarity.
We design and build it ourselves.
Many web agencies simply divvy up your project to a group of people, each hopefully bringing a particular skill to the table... not so with us.
One contact: your web-specialist is your
graphic-designer is your
interface-designer is your
programmer.
We understand the problem…
We understand how Architects and designers think, have a deep interest in Knowledge Management and Information Design, and have oodles of nous in the design and development of all things web.
Meet Gary
Meet Gary. He’s an Architect with a passion for functional design, enjoys making things, and has bucket-loads of experience.
His job is to:
- liase and collaborate with you on your project
- choreograph the site’s graphics and typography
- develop it’s information-architecture and structure
- write and meld all the XHTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP and MySQL coding required by the design
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Meet Gary
Meet Gary. He’s an Architect with a passion for functional design, enjoys making things, and has bucket-loads of experience.
His job is to:
- liase and collaborate with you on your project
- choreograph the site’s graphics and typography
- develop it’s information-architecture and structure
- write and meld all the XHTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP and MySQL coding required by the design
Meet Ingrid
Meet Ingrid. She conjures up many of our best ideas and handles much of our research, putting her degrees in Information Management, Social Science, Psychology and Arts (Majoring in Linguistics, English and German) to good use. She also helps-out with the pixel-pushing…
Together they:
- design and formulate a design response to your brief
- prepare a ‘paper-prototype’ illustrated document to help you visualise and understand the design
- take your comments on-board and prepare a ‘working-prototype’ website for you to peruse
- finalise your site’s design and behaviour together with you and complete the build to your satisfaction
- provide support and advice into the future – we don’t cut-and-run.
all-sorts websites. never bitter. often sweet.
Content is the key.
When you get down to the nitty-gritty, websites have one primary function: to deliver content effectively. Our job is to ensure that the design and structure of your website meet this seemingly simple requirement.
The content needs to be indexed by web search-engines; the programming of the site and its Content Manager need to be machine-readable to facilitate this. Accordingly, we hand code our sites in standards-compliant, semantic HTML which (amongst other benefits) ensures that they are search-engine friendly. Our publishing tool of choice, Textpattern, is a mature, robust and flexible Open Source content manager: a web application designed to help overcome the hurdles of publishing online, and to simplify the production of well-structured, standards-compliant web pages.
Each design is formulated directly from your requirements — we won’t fob you off with a regurgitation of the latest fashion trend.
We enjoy this stuff too much to ever repeat a design: you can be confident that your website will be unique, designed for (and around) your message.
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News
26 Jun 08
Mirvac Design website launch
Our new design for the Mirvac Design website went live to the public today, Thursday 26jun08.
We’re all pleased with the end result!
01 May 08
Interview with TXPq
TXPQ interview us over Textpattern, life, the universe and everything:
29 Mar 08
New websites on the way…
In keeping with our ‘we specialise in websites for architects and designers’ thingy, we’ve just landed a few more…
Prototyping for a new website for Mirvac Design is in progress.
We’ve also just started the ball rolling with new developments for Sydney’s Robin Gibson Gallery and ArchitectureXchange in Wellington.
04 Jan 08
A new year, a new website
Welcome to 2008.
We’ve had this design brewing over the past few months: we hope you like…
28 Feb 07
Happily occupied...
We’re getting stuff done!
Summer has at long last made its appearance and we’re busy little bees whilst we’re trying to stock up on warmth and sunshine. So here is a quick up-date on some of the things that have kept us off the streets lately:
- We’re excited about Rice Daubney’s new site which is a collaborative process involving us making their design a reality. Watch this space.
- The Hanover Group Intranet is expanding to smooth administrative tasks with: Get Stuff Done – created to manage staff requests from general office maintenance to travel arrangements.
- With the first anniversary of Harry Seidler’s death coming up, we are busy updating Harry Seidler and Associates with Reflections on Harry Seidler (in the articles section). Hours of fascinating reading in there…
- We’re also working on a website for our little Cornish Rex girl’s breeder, Beryl Colley who creates extraordinarily lovely, healthy, affectionate, funny and intelligent Cornish Rex cats.
Finally, the renovations of the shack are progressing slowly but steadily Currently we’re focussing on waterproofing the outside deck before winter strikes.