all-sorts websites by design: websites for architects and designers... websites which are image rich. In an elevator.

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.

What makes a good website for Architects?

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.

pictogram of a hand partially closed in the 'sweet' sign

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.