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
28 Feb 07
Happily occupied...
We’re getting stuff done!
Summer has at long last made its appearance and we’re busy little bees whilst we’re trying to stock up on warmth and sunshine. So here is a quick up-date on some of the things that have kept us off the streets lately:
- We’re excited about Rice Daubney’s new site which is a collaborative process involving us making their design a reality. Watch this space.
- The Hanover Group Intranet is expanding to smooth administrative tasks with: Get Stuff Done – created to manage staff requests from general office maintenance to travel arrangements.
- With the first anniversary of Harry Seidler’s death coming up, we are busy updating Harry Seidler and Associates with Reflections on Harry Seidler (in the articles section). Hours of fascinating reading in there…
- We’re also working on a website for our little Cornish Rex girl’s breeder, Beryl Colley who creates extraordinarily lovely, healthy, affectionate, funny and intelligent Cornish Rex cats.
Finally, the renovations of the shack are progressing slowly but steadily. Currently we’re focussing on waterproofing the outside deck before winter strikes.
21 Oct 06
Michiel Gerber's website launched
Michiel Gerber architect wanted a site to showcase his work. We pulled out the stops and came up with this simple-yet-expressive little number…
20 Oct 06
Goodbye Schminty…
*Zaphod was also known as Zaph, Schminty, Za-a-a-aph, the Breeb, Box, Zaphini, Zox-Box, Pod, Yin, Plodhops, Franscina, Henry-Mancini, the-Heber, Bambalini, Mowglee, Mr Populär, very fine Chicken, that fucking cat, very fine whine, Liebling, Pitt-Bull-Terrier, Artsebarsky, Chief Roboticist of the Ponds Institute, Mannesman, the Komplaina, Robert de Hero, Kleine Rotte, Bog-Breath, the Boyfriend, Frederick de Friendelick, Hasenfuss, Schmint, Scminterini, Chicken-with-legs, the Man from Del-Schminty, Henry Rancini, day-nurse, night-nurse, the Liefheber, Schminterriffic, da Funky Homosapien, Doktor Tschekov, monuglavic beanie, to name a few.
After 16 years of close companionship we buried our dear feline friend Zaphod under a birch tree in the garden. It’s a spot where the view is fantastic and the sun hits it for a long time.
Zaphod, named after Zaphod Breeblebox for reasons partly due to his Devon Rex heritage, is sorely missed.
04 Aug 06
Busy
Ouch. We’ve had an extremely hectic 3 months:
- the purchase of a little 1930s cottage/shack (with its very own ‘goat-track’ for access from the road) with stunning views over Wellington harbour and the Lower Hutt Valley. Needless to say, our move into our new home-cum-studio was fraught with difficulty…
- the clean-up of our new acquisition (it was a pig-sty): how can such a tiny place hoard so much junk?
- the design and fix-up of said cottage (still in-progress): I’m revisiting my old high-school word-work skills!
- new website for Elephant Training
- the addition of audio interviews and articles about the late Harry Seidler – see the ‘Articles & Writings’ section in the Harry Seidler Associates website
- a design refresh of a site we first designed 3 years ago, HASSELL We’re also currently completing the Chinese language version
- we’ve started the redesign and development of another 2003 website of ours, Rice Daubney
- we’ve just about finished one of our ready-made designs for City Kickboxing in Auckland
- further development on Hanover Human Resources Intranet
- new design development for Hanover Legal Intranet
Like I said, ouch.
24 Apr 06
Detail Architecture is published
Melbourne architect Graeme Coop’s new website Detail Architecture has just gone live. It is a typical example of one of our “ready-made” solutions…
For the moment Graeme is limiting his site content to overview information only; he plans to add case-studies of his work when he finds the time.