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Victoria Phillips Academy
This website was a re-design from an existing website and is a very graphic design intensive website.
There are a number of different page layouts with different colour schemes, menu selections and background images.
The website was fun to build and has been built using the latest HTML 5 code format and shows a trend towards websites not being designed and built to a box structured layout and you can have layouts free standing giving an uncluttered appearance. |
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Kumeu Plumbing
Kumeu Plumbing is a local plumbing business that has been going for 38 years. The website was a few years old and Darryl approached Designhand to put in a solution to modernise the site and introduce some new areas which were not available on the current website.
We introduced a blog called 'Whats in the Pipeline' and a Specials page that Kumeu Plumbing staff are able to update themselves.
In the near future Kumeu Plumbing are talking about introducing an on-line shop as well to enhance the showroom they have in Main Road, Kumeu. |
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The Gym Ohakune
The Gym Ohakune originally had a one page website that was providing the occassional contact or enquiry, but Megan was interested in raising the profile of The Gym and make the website more accessible.
The website design is quite a modern, clean and fresh design that gives a more professional feel about the business and a lot more information for prospective members. An online registration form was added to encourage visitors to complete their registration to The Gym online and this also interfaces with PayPal for online payment by PayPal or by credit card.
Megan had professional photos taken by a local photographer, Angela McCoubrie Photography which makes a massive difference in the quality of the end result of the website.
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Ruapehu Mountain Accommodation
This website involved a branding change from an original accommodation business called Sunbeam Motels. The brand was not working very well across the internet so a project was undertaken to rebrand and build a new website.
The website has an online registration system for customers to book accommodation online and has a modern look and feel and easy to navigate around the site. |
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Owhango Hotel and Forest Lodge
The Owhango Hotel website was the culmination of a number of other websites including Forest Lodge and the 42 Traverse website.
A design was put together to bring all of these together in the one layout and make it easier for customers to understand the full range of accommodation and activities available based at the Owhango Hotel. |
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Harney Fine Teas Australia
Harney Fine Teas New Zealand have been a customer of Designhand for four years. Harney Fine Teas are now expanding in to Australia and approached Designhand to build a new site design for Australia.
The site has a dealer login area with a wholesale bulk order form, and an online shop for customers to purchase Harney Fine Teas online. |
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Nu Look Rooms
Nu Look Rooms is a startup business focussing on providing a new look and feel to your home.
The owners were looking for a fresh, clean look and feel and portray a smart and simple approach to their customers. We chose a Joomla based solution so that the customer can update content themselves as the business grows and the site would be easy to scale in the future.
This is a good example of what a Joomla based solution can provide for your business.
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Hamilton North Appliance Repairs
Hamilton North Appliance Repairs are a small family owned business based in Hamilton North.
They service appliances across the greater Hamilton area and wanted a site to sell spare parts online as well as reconditioned appliances.
The site design has brought a more modern look and feel to their online presence. |
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Quasar Diamonds
Quasar Diamonds are a New Zealand owned business that imports and distributes quality diamonds.
Designhand built the public site and a dealer only website, and included a dealer outlets selector and a search lookup tool for Diamonds and Jewellery. |
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Kariba Awnings
Kariba are a manufacturer of awning products in New Zealand and were keen to establish a website that markets their brand of awnings on the internet.
We also included a dealer outlets map selector so customers can find a dealer close to them. |
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Ruapehu District Council
Designhand was awarded the contract to re-design and re-build the Ruapehu District Council's website.
The scope was to build in content management, a Chief Executive blog and a newer design and modernisation of the current website. |
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Burleigh China (Jill Lydias)
This site is another eCommerce website with additional functionality to manage stock levels within the website.
There are over 100 products available for purchase and a local feature for Local Pickups introduced also. |
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Wades Landing
This project was the culmination of amalgamating 11 existing websites and encorporate them under the one banner of Wades Landing.
The new look and feel has 4 main sections that sit on 4 domain names and the remaining 7 domain names are also connected to give the impression to the customer of one entity. |
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Max McKenzie Builders
Frazer approached Designhand with the requirement to bring Max McKenzie builders online and available to be found on the major search engines for the Ruapehu region.
We purchased the domain name www.taumarunui-builders.co.nz to help Max McKenzie Builders reach out to customers who live or own property in the Taumarunui area. |
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Art Retro
Art Retro was a fun site to build.
The design of the site took on an Art Deco theme and the site enables customers to inquire about the prints that are listed on the site. |
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Visitor Experience NZ
This site is a good example of a fresh, clean, modern design from Designhand.
It is designed as an information site and has taken the design scheme from the basis of the customers logo and site created following the same look and feel. |
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Ohakune Info
This site was a rebuild of an existing site that had become well outdated. We were asked to bring together the best out of the original site and also introduce a new and fresh design which represented the current destinations and activities in the Ohakune area.
We were also asked to build an Accommodation and Dining directory where the local businesses could display a listing on the website. This involved the creation of a listing database with a maintenance module for easy management by Ohakune Info staff. |
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Twin Rivers Motel
The Twin Rivers Motel is based in Taumarunui near the junction of the Ongarue and Whanganui Rivers which gives the Motel the name.
The website design has brought out the stones effect of the Rivers which is carried through the theme of the decoration to the Motel units. The design was put together by a local lady who has grown up in the area and knew what sort of design would best suit the Twin Rivers Motel. |
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Ohakune Old Coach Road
Ohakune Old Coach Road has become quite a popular destination now that the Mountain To Sea Cycleway is nearing completion. Designhand became a sponsor of the Ohakune Old Coach Road in 2008 and offered to sponsor a website for the marketing of the historic road.
It got to the stage there was so much web traffic to the site that Designhand recently offered to re-design the site. Designhand are very proud to be sponsoring the Ohakune Old Coach Road project. |
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Regents Grove
Regents Grove is a holiday accommodation property based in Taupo.
The website is an excellent example of an effective holiday house website that uses other mechanisms such as holiday directories to channel inbound inquiries to the site as well as organic search engine results..
An online booking system is in place on the booking page and reflects in real time the true availability of the property for prospective bookings.
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Kumeu Courier
The Kumeu Courier is a new publication established in the North West region of Auckland.
The website was set up as a sponsorship offering from Designhand to enable the publication to reach a larger audience and attract business listings and further sponsorship to help grow the circulation base.
The design was created as a look-a-like to the first edition and has a crisp look and feel to the website. |
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Mullins Tyres
Mullins Tyres approached Designhand to build a web presence for their Avondale and Takapuna stores.
The site was designed from a modern graphic design and shows the individual stores and all the services that Mullins offer. Scope was around a fresh clean design. |
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Wood Pigeon Lodge
Wood Pigeon Lodge was a re-design and modernisation of an existing site. The site brief was for a more rustic look and feel and modernisation of the layout of the website.
More focus was put on the imagery associated with the Wood Pigeon that gives the Lodge the name, and the rustic charm of wood, hessian and accessories such as lanterns and pulleys. A fun site to re-design. |
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Hunting Downunder
Hunting Downunder contacted Designhand with the idea of starting a hunting business in the backblocks of Napier. Designhand assisted with the design of the logo, site layout design and build.
The site has a modern fresh and simple to use feel to it and positions the activities of the business easily without too much clutter or busy feel to it. |
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Taumarunui Jet Tours
Designhand has been updating the original Taumarunui Jet Tours site for some time and was approached recently to undertake a modernising of the site.
A flash banner was added and a new design layout and better focus on the range of tours Taumarunui Jet Tours have to offer on the Whanganui River.
A fun site to redesign and a good example of Designhands redesign services. |
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King Country Tours
King Country Tours was an opportunity for Designhand to introduce some cultural styling that met the background theme of a Maori cultural feel to the site.
We worked with Gina to produce the artwork, designed the logos for King Country Tours and Ruapehu Taxis and built the site to reflect the full range of services King Country Tours has to offer.
We also added in gift vouchers for sale which gives the site something extra. |
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Nevalea Alpacas
This site was a fun one to build as we took the site from a logo design right through to the design and build of the site.
The site is a traditional Designhand online shopping site using Paypal and it also has a database of Alpacas for sale and stud enquiries. |
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Beermaker
Beermaker is a brand name for an online shop established to sell home brewing products online. The site has a large number of products for sale and uses the Paypal online payment gateway.
The layout scope was to be fresh, smart and modern and appealing to a large range of people. Designhand was proud to have the opportunity to bring this together for Hauraki Brewing Company. |
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Taumarunui Golf Club
This site has a simple but effective design bringing out the country golf course look and feel and gives the viewer a good view of all of the holes on the course and about the Club.
The Tournaments page is a content managed page and the Golf Club can update the Tournament schedule and results themselves. |
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Taumarunui RSA
Taumarunui RSA approached Designhand not long after the Taumarunui Golf Club website was completed.
The RSA and Golf Club have a strong partnership in the Taumarunui area and were both keen to have a similar look and feel yet individual websites to market their respective organisations. |
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Velcaps
The build of the Velcaps site was a re-design of an existing site. The new design was to modernise the layout and provide the online shop facility which was not available in the original site.
We also added a dealer login section for dealers to purchase larger quantities at the dealer pricing. A flash slideshow was built for the banner to provide a colourful edge to the design. |
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Aotearoa Safaris
This site was an exciting site to build as the client requested something new, refreshing and different.
We built this site using a full image background that switches between pages and a transparent content area that you can just view the background image through.
The page also scrolls and gives a nice refreshing look and something a bit different. |
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Kumeu Art in the Garden
Designhand was approached by LJ Hooker to develop the website for the Kumeu Art in the Garden as a sponsorship project.
The site is quite simple in its design but gives a garden look and feel and has enabled the Kumeu Art in the Garden Trust to actively market the event and firm up artists and sponsors. |
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Taumarunui
Rebuilding the Taumarunui website was a labour of love for Designhand.
The site involves a full content management solution and the town has content editor roles established to manage the content of the site.
This project was a challenging one to phase out the old design and bring in a totally new way of running a community based website. |
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Te Waka Pu Whenua
Te Waka Pu Whenua are a maori learning and education group based in Taumarunui and approached Designhand last year to build a web presence to market the range of offerings of learning and education.
David enjoyed building this site as it involved understanding about the maori language and customs and bringing the range of services to life via the internet. |
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Trophy Hunt and Fish New Zealand
Trophy Hunt and Fish was an excellent site to build as Dave had a large number of images available from his vast experience in the hunting game in New Zealand.
Dave also knew exactly what he needed to say on the website and it was a pleasure being given the opportunity to bring Trophy Hunt and Fish to life. |
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TasteMark™ and Taste Technologies
Designhand was approached by TasteMark™ initially to build a two website model with an entry page to enter either business from either website.
TasteMark™ was established initially and Taste Tech brought on board recently with a full content management system solution and both sites work independently from each other. |
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King Country Driver Training
The King Country Driver Training website is a good example of what you can do with a template site, originally designed by someone else but localised to fit the local requirements.
Designhand designed the King Country Driver Training logo and artwork as well as the build of the site. |
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Hobsonville Physio
Hobsonville Physio is another good example of a re-design of an existing site. Craig approached Designhand to freshen up the look and feel of his site and bring the design in to this century.
We took a lot of the content from the old site but freshened up the look and feel and modernised the layout and graphics. |
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Roll Back The Years
Designhand was approached by the Taumarunui & Districts Historical Society to help them put the Roll Back The Years publication on a website and enable the book to be sold online.
Designhand designed the site and added the online shopping capability and further publications are being looked at being sold in a similar fashion using the web. |
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The Camping Outlet
The Camping Outlet are a large Auckland based camping and outdoor equipment supplier with two stores, one in Glenfield and one in Penrose.
The Camping Outlet approached us about taking these stores online and establishing a large online store for customers to purchase online. There are over 400 items in the online store and all major credit cards are accepted using a Paypal payment interface. |
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All About Buggies
All About Buggies are a Mountain Buggy sales and service agent in Auckland.
Glenn and Angela approached Designhand to establish a logo for their new business as well as a website to display Mountain Buggy products and accessories that are available. The website has an online form and a map on how to get to All About Buggies. |
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Ohakune Primary School
Ohakune Primary School is another good example of a re-design project. Designhand was approached to re-design the site and focus on a country school look and feel and keep a simple approach to the appearance and the functionality of the site.
The site uses a small amount of 'Flash' to change images at the top enabling a larger amount of images without too much clutter on the page. |
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One2One Beauty
One2One Beauty are based in the main street in Taumarunui and Designhand was approached to take the presence of One2One Beauty to the internet.
The site was designhand around the colour scheme inside the premises of One2One Beauty and the riverstones reflecting an earthy affect and in keeping with the proximity of One2One to the junction of the mighty Ongarue and Whanganui Rivers. |
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Ngakonui Valley School
Ngakonui Valley School is a small country school 12kms north of Taumarunui. The school approached Designhand to help them enter the internet age.
We took a lot of existing newsletter content and materials available and produced a simple to use website for the school and the surrounding community. We assisted in creating the logo which came about from an old Oak tree in the front grounds of the school. |
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Avondale Health Centre
Avondale Health is another example of a redesign site.
We were approached by Avondale Health to modernise the site, design a logo and new brand to reflect that the Health Centre is beside the railway tracks in Avondale, Auckland and the site required a modern uplifting look and feel. |
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Brent Wong - Painter
This was a new site, and an opportunity to provide a visual representation of Brents works.
The design came from Brent himself and we really enjoyed bringing to life Brents creation and a gallery of fourty years of his works which he can now share with the world. |
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Laurens Lavender Farm
Laurens Lavender is a very special place and we really enjoyed building this site.
We did a lot of the design work onsite as the place has a very special feeling and our charter was to take the spirit of the surroundings and present them on the world wide web for others to share. |
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Sweetcheeks
Sweetcheeks is a good example of a website redesign involving the addition of an online shop.
Even though this originally was not our design, we have structurally made a conversion of the site to support an online shop database and shopping cart and added an administration menu for managing product additions and deletions with ease.
We are proud to be associated with Sweetcheeks and keen to see the business grow with the improvements to the website. |
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Tilesonline
Tilesonline are an online Tile shop that supply tiles to customers and dealers across New Zealand.
The site involved a re-design of an existing site and hosts a shopping cart with payment gateway through to Paypal. |
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Simpson Lodge
Simpson Lodge is a boutique lodge nested at the foothills of the Auckland Waitakere Ranges.
The site has a rollover picture gallery of the lodge and a fresh and appealing design. Simpson Lodge offers all the benefits of a semi rural setting whilst only 5km drive from Westcity shopping complex and less than 2km to the train station from Waitakere to downtown Auckland City. |
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One Stop Ski Shop
The One Stop Ski Shop is a well known ski shop located on SH4 between Taumarunui and National Park in a small town called Owhango.
The site has a flash image on the home page that rotates between the inside and outside of the shop and an online shop facility has been created for selling Ski's and Snowboards online. |
