Here are some of the websites built by Balmain Website Designs recently.
Echo Stars – an Australian based charity helping some of the poorest children in the world
This was a pro-bono project. Each year, Balmain Website Designs (and Bold Type, our parent company) build a website free of charge for a worthy organisation. Echo Stars is certainly that. Money raised by this charitable organisation has built a school in Bangladesh giving many children an education which, until then, was beyond their wildest dreams. Please feel free to visit the website and donate to this worthy cause.
Linda Magson Counselling
This project involved moving a website from Joomla to a WordPress content management system, redesigning webpages while maintaining the original major design elements, adding a blog, adding social media and other features. The client loves the new website and the fact that she can manage her own website: adding valuable content to help her clients whenever she wants.
http://www.lindamagsoncounselling.com.au
Captivations – custom sports apparel suppliers
The Captivations website is massive with over 300 product pages, four major product categories and 30 or so product gallery pages. Working out a logical structure for the different clients: sports clubs, schools, businesses and charities – all regular and equally important clients – was a challenge. In the end, we decided on the four major categories and a left-hand sub-menu that would make it easy for clients to find what they want. The ‘Design Your Own Sportswear’ feature is something that many clients use. It’s actually another website which we embedded in Captivations and branded with the Captivations logo so that people using this feature don’t have any trouble finding other Captivations webpages when they have finished designing their own sports uniforms.
http://www.captivations.com.au
All Stone – suppliers of pavers, tiles and garden ornaments
All Stone is a business supplying stone pavers, tiles and garden ornaments in Sydney’s inner west. This website uses photographs well to show the finished result and the actual products. Links to other like products from every product page help web visitors to find their way around the website. And on every page, there is a call to action for web visitors to contact All Stone about their paving and other stoneware needs.
Cosway Australia – strategic communications
Cosway Australia wanted a complete website makeover so our team of designers and web developers worked with Cosway to create a website that would encapsulate the professionalism of their company and showcase their services and people. They love it. We love it. Have a look and see what you think.
Living Silk – fashion house
The Living Silk website development was a revamp of an existing static website to a dynamic system that the client can manage themselves. The website is run using Wordpress, open source CMS which was voted the number one system for dynamic websites in 2009. Every page is editable, for example, images of new outfits can be easily added with the click or two on the keyboard. The news pages allow Living Silk to keep their web visitors up to date with fashion news and the ‘email friends’ function allows visitors to send an image of any outfit to friends and families. This is particularly relevant when brides want their bridesmaids to see a particular gown. Go to the Living Silk website
Liza McKilliam – real estate consultant
Bold Type managed a complete re-development for Liza McKilliam’s real estate website. This included a complete overview of the content and its presentation, a new website design, a change of web hosting company that will save on host facilities that the website does not use or need, improved search engine optimisation and an analytics program to assess visitor traffic. The new website is clean, easy to navigate and allows Liza’s team to add new homes for sale, news features about the real estate industry and related content. Read Liza’s testimonial. Go to the Liza McKilliam Real Estate website
http://www.lizamckilliam.com.au/
Do Duck Inn – catering and cafe, Adelaide
Do Duck Inn is a cafe and catering business in Adelaide. The new owner, Darren Packer, realised that the website that he inherited with the business needed a complete makeover. The Bold Type team went to work to find an appropriate template that could be modified to suit the business then to build the website to showcase the catering menu and the business generally. Go to the Do Duck Inn website. Read the testimonial from Do Duck Inn’s owner .
The Finishing Touch – civil celebrant
This was a complete makeover – a new design and the website built using Wordpress content management system – has seen the numbers of visitors jump dramatically. The website is fully editable. This means that the client can add links, pages and information that help web visitors find what they want. Read the testimonial from Deborah. Go to The Finishing Touch website.
http://www.thefinishingtouch.net.au
Glitterbox – hair salon in Newtown in Sydney
Glitterbox needed a website to put their hair salon on the Internet map. Importantly, they wanted their website to show the particular style of their Newtown hair salon. They love what we delivered. More importantly, the website has a high visibility on the Internet and brings in new clients. All Bold Type websites have an analytics program so that the client can track how the website is going and make changes to improve visitor traffic. Go to the Glitterbox hair salon website. Read the testimonial from the Glitterbox team .
Ski The World
Ski The World is a website that is continually evolving. The website is managed by Bold Type, the parent company of Balmain Website Designs. It’s a project that helps the Balmain Website Designs team to keep on the pulse of the continual changes that impact on website design and development. Go to Ski The World website .
http://www.ski-the-world.com.au
Bold Type – parent company of Balmain Website Designs
Balmain Website Designs is the web publishing arm of Bold Type Publishing which is a print and web publishing business. Naturally, we have built our own websites and they act as examples to our clients of the way we design and develop individualised websites. Go to the Bold Type website .