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iSolar Websites

2008 – Present

The Challenge

iSolar required three websites: Bright Future Portal, Bright Future, and iSolar. The three arms are the three main web presences: Bright Future Portal, which houses content for schools, monitoring data, and more; and Bright Future and iSolar which provide organisation-specific information.

Our Solution

Zack Design created a multi-site install of WordPress, and created custom code for the monitoring data, allowed schools to log in to the platform, and created all necessary code.

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Sue Lawson’s Website

2009 – Present

http://suelawson.com.au/

Sue Lawson is a young adult’s novelist with a busy schedule traveling around Australia visiting schools and posting updates about her work.

The Challenge

Zack Design was tasked with creating a website that showed Sue’s creative edge and allowed her to update her blog, gallery, and pages with text and media about her books.

Our Solution

A website was created using Drupal which allowed Sue to upload pictures to her gallery, blog with updates to her front page, and add her books as she wrote them.

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Mower Corner Website

2009 – Present

http://mowercorner.com.au/

Mower Corner required a simple information site as a first point of contact for web visitors.

The Challenge

Because the marketing strategy for this client involves getting people interested enough to come and visit their shop front, the website needed to provide all the information they had in one hit.

Our Solution

It was decided to create a single-page layout. All the content on the site is editable, including the slideshows and text. Even the contact email form and supplier links are modal window popups.

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Bendix Brakes Website

June 2010 – Present

http://bendix.com.au

Bendix is a hub for mechanics all over Australia looking for brakes to match to their cars. It is also Bendix’s main point of contact for marketing, and it serves New Zealand and Australia by showing its stockist locations.

The Challenge

Convert their existing website to a user-friendly, 21st century website with all of the convenience and power that current content management systems can provide. The website will not only be used for Australia and New Zealand, but in the future will have Bendix’s international branches added. The website needed to be accessible to mechanics with low-end computers but still provide a current-generation user-experience.

Not only that, but they had to have a further sub-section added to the website, the Performance section, with its own sets of sports-related stockists, catalogue search utilities, and theme.

Our Solution

Zack Design partnered with the marketing company responsible for Bendix and delivered a Drupal-based website with the many different sections, and on top of that included an administrative back-end allowing for site administrators to modify their catalogue easily. The website was created with the end-user experience in mind, and went through countless revisions before the final site was launched. Everyone who uses it finds it intuitive to use and lauds the user experience.

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Zack Design Theme Updated

After a long period of waiting, I am happy to present a site refresh for Zack Design. Please let me know via comments if there’s anything you don’t like about the layout/setup in any way.

I’ve yet to complete the front page which will have a slideshow of what I offer, as well as some quick links straight to the forum (among other things).

I’m not supporting IE 6 on purpose. I have made sure it degrades OK, but I’m not worried if the site doesn’t look quite the same (it doesn’t). If Google and Microsoft don’t feel they want to support IE6 anymore I don’t see any reason why I should either.

Not only that, over the last month IE6 counts for a fraction of the visits to my site – 0.7%. In total, IE browsers only account for 11.8% of total visits. Out of the IE browsers visiting my site, only 6% are IE6. Due to these statistics, I believe it is now no longer viable for me to support IE6 and will gradually phase such support out across all my projects (except of course in those rare cases where it is still necessary).