We make the most of your imagery
we design.all-sorts is a small, dynamic web-design consultancy near Wellington, New Zealand.
We pride ourselves in providing quality web development & ongoing support to our Australasian & international clients — for very reasonable prices.
Websites for Architects…
Image-rich websites.
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 – lately all of her spare time and energy is dedicated to
Baguette, our irrepressible mutt.
Together Gary and Ingrid:
- 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.
Experience counts in web development…
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News
20 Jan 09
Why are architects' websites so badly designed?
“I’m amazed how bad most of them are.”
Couldn’t agree more with this article, written a year ago in the Guardian art & design blog
Since the article was written, Renzo’s website has been redesigned – really well I might add, apart from the gratuitous use of Flash…
10 Jan 09
Introducing a Daily Baguette
Baguette is our dog and my obsession. The Daily Baguette is was a blog about her daily walks – an activity that brings both of us immense joy, some challenges and a hardy constitution.
06 Dec 08
Heilman Architecture published
Bob Heilman wanted a simple and engaging website which didn’t take itself too seriously. We’re all pleased as punch with the result
06 Oct 08
all-sorts on the boil...
S’bin’busy here again.
- A new website for Sydney Architects Maccormick Simonian
- A new website for Florida Architect Robert Heilman
- A new phase of development on our Artedomus website – we’re adding an e-commerce check-out system. Expect to see it up and running soon-ish.
- Also on our desktop is a complete re-write of our Seidler website (its nearly 10 years old now). We’re adding video and audio interviews by and of the late Harry Seidler – all fascinating stuff for any aficionado of really good Modern Architecture…