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30 May
Posted by Haley

A Seriously Bold Design for Richard Timpson Solicitors and Migration Agents

Lawyers are, by nature, serious professionals. We’re fortunate to work with Richard Timpson Solicitors and Migration Agents, who break all legal stereotypes and originally began working with Clever Starfish due to a shared interest in heavy metal. Yes, I do mean heavy metal music!

Richard Timpson asked us to design an innovative website that promoted the company’s new business focus as an immigration law specialist.

Richard Timpson website design

 

We developed a bold new look and feel that reflects Richard Timpson’s personality. The new website features a responsive design and horizontal scrolling. The website also includes a blog, which will be regularly updated to encourage new business and better content relevancy for SEO rankings.

Richard Timpson home page design

It didn’t take long to find a suitable launch cake theme, orange was the obvious choice!

14 May
Posted by Monica

Fresh New Look Responsive site goes live for Barclays Building Services

We are excited to announce the launch of the fresh-look Barclays Building Services (BBS) WordPress website, which has been brightened up with fresh new content and now supports mobile devices. BBS has been a client for four years and whilst their old site was still in working order, it needed to be matched to the latest marketing materials that were created by the talented bunch at Milkable.

The family-owned business was established more than 25 years ago and provides high quality building services to insurance and loss adjusters around Western Australia covering the following regions:

  • Busselton – Southwest Region
  • Kalgoolie – Goldfields-Esperance Region
  • Geraldton – Midwest Region
  • Karratha – Pilbara Region

Barclay's responsive website

They have experienced substantial growth in the last few years (in team and coverage) and wanted to be able to source new suppliers to work with and therefore needed the site to be able to streamline this process. Suppliers can now submit their expressions of interest online. The site also features a gallery so that new and existing clients can see examples of work Barclays Building Services has completed.

To celebrate the launch of the new site, we munched on a delightful selection of treats from the David Jones’ food court.

 

23 Apr
Posted by Clever Starfish

Hullabaloo Swings Into Action!

We love supporting like minded people and communities who help Perth grow. Hullabaloo is no exception. This energetic annual swing dance festival draws hundreds of people from around the world to a 5 day festival celebrating  jazz music and dance from the 1930s and 40s. 2013 sees the tenth Hullabaloo Perth Lindy Exchange.

 

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Fellow Clever Starfish and local swing dancing legend Trevor Hutchison has regularly volunteered his time to design and build the annual Hullabaloo website. This year Trevor took things to a new level and designed and built an amazing responsive WordPress website which folds down to suit mobile phone screens without compromising it’s beautiful typographical style.

Like any event based website, ticketing is a crucial component. In order to help Hullabaloo with this year’s ticketing, we were asked to develop a custom ticketing system which could manage the complexities of a dance festival without being difficult to operate and worked with WordPress. The system needed to do the most basic transactions, selling tickets to events BUT it also needed the ability to package groups of events for a discounted cost (passes), manage and balance workshop numbers according to lead and follower dancers, capture accommodation options for out-of-town visitors who need accommodation and sell festival products like a shop. All this wrapped up with one management and reporting console. Sheesh! Luckily we were up to the challenge.

With the aid of our oldest programming Starfish, Dave Ridgway, the result was a custom Tentacle based ticketing system which neatly integrated the WordPress site’s responsive styles.

We’re very proud of this ticketing system and also proud to support the 2013 Hullabaloo Perth Lindy Exchange.

 

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 On mobile or smartphone screens

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Launch Cake: Delicious Baked French Vanilla Cheesecake

8 Apr
Posted by Jayde

Miss Bunting brings sunshine, candy & cupcakes to the internet with new online store

We are so very excited to officially announce the launch of the Miss Bunting online store. Miss Bunting is an enthralling market place of quirky, unique and fabulous party objects to help create inspired, one-of-a-kind events. Definitely worth a bookmark for when you are planning your next banquet, barbecue or birthday bash!

We worked with the fabulous guys at Design Collision who came up with the home page look & feel, and helped us to get a really strong feeling for the brand and what Miss Bunting was all about.

Pro tip: See what happens when searching the shop by colour… :)

Miss Bunting online store home page - Clever Starfish

Miss Bunting online store product selection page - Clever Starfish
Miss Bunting online store product detail page - Clever Starfish

 

4 Jan
Posted by Jane

Marketforce freshen the Decmil brand: new responsive WordPress site goes live

In another collaboration with Marketforce, we are proud to launch the Decmil Australia website.

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Decmil Australia has delivered specialist building and civil construction services to the oil, gas and resources industries for more than 30 years. As part of the wider Decmil Group Limited, their long held reputation is built on sound, professional and trusted relationships with their clients.

They commissioned Marketforce to freshen up their well-established brand a year ago. At the same time they noted that the website needed to be brought up to the same level. Our team met with the Marketforce designers, planners and account managers and went through the already completed print resources as well as the print style guides.

The final decision was made that they wanted to go with a fully responsive site that showcased the new colour palette and fonts.

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This website has some fabulous features in WordPress including;

  •  Responsive banner managers: The home and landing pages all feature banner managers where photos, text and links can be added by the client in a heartbeat. As long as the heart of the image is centralised – the whole banner will shrink and display appropriately on a tablet or smartphone. Check it out by grabbing the corner of the browser and shrinking the window.
  • Landing page templates: The website features dedicated landing page templates that allow the addition of feature boxes to promote pages within. This makes the site far easier to navigate, particularly when coupled with drop down navigation.
  • Blog: Although on the outset, a blog doesn’t seem to be a fabulous feature but in our experience it is one of the most vital parts of any website. After all, here you are reading ours.
  • Flexible content modules: In cases where you are dealing with designing and building a site with less than 30% of the content, flexible content modules are a saving grace. We had the responsibility of adding in the content for the first level pages and the rest was completed by Marketforce and the team at Decmil. Without allowing some flexibility, it is pretty easy for bumps in the road to lead to delays – particularly as content is the key to this website.

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We celebrated this launch with a delighfully simple chocolate cake. Jayde, the lead on this project was in Melbourne and skyped in for LaunchCake but was unable to cut the cake long distance so our very talented designer, Trevor – cut the cake!

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17 Oct
Posted by Jane and Jayde

Christian Fletcher Launches New Look Responsive Website

Last year our team took a trip down south to say hello to the Fletcher team in their Dunsborough gallery after spending months on the phone. We felt it was about time we met in person! We already had a really appreciation of the beautiful photographic work of Christian Fletcher as it was great to be greeted so warmly in their stunning gallery.

Christian Fletcher’s original site was one of the earliest Tentacle stores. When we met with them we realised that they were beginning to grow out of the current version and wanted to take their online presence to the next level.

Christian Fletcher’s original site

Pretty quickly we got onto how we could look at improving the current site and it was pretty clear that they truly are innovators and love to lead the way. After the trip our team chatted about how we could address their needs and enable them to steer their business on a daily basis without us having to rely on us. They wanted control and we wanted to be able to give that to them.

We really do appreciate that they also let us run with some exciting features that we hope will make their site even easier to browse or buy a ‘Christian Fletcher’ that suits you.

All of these changes were not made lightly or at a whim. Our team spent a long time reviewing the popular sections of the site, listened to feedback from their team and other photographers who work closely with them. We didn’t want to make ‘change for change’s sake’ and hope that this is reflected in the new look.

Probably the biggest noticeable cosmetic change is that the site is now responsive, enabling purchasing, browsing and blog reading on the go. Visitors can also save their favourite images to the Wishlist and purchase from both the photography store and the gift store.

The site is not just about selling though and special care has been taken to consider first and foremost those who want to view images and read the latest happenings in the life of Christian Fletcher.

We will revisit this site in future blogs to explain further features including; gift vouchers, product pickup, room-view, coupons and how we approach responsive sites.

Check out their site at http://www.christianfletcher.com.au or pop into one of their galleries in Dunsborough, Margaret River or Mandurah.

Launch Cake: Chocolate Mousse Cake

28 Sep
Posted by Gregory

XciteLogic Revolutionises School Communication with the MySchoolDay App

XciteLogic has launched their new responsive website which showcases their new MySchoolDay App. The site features a touch enabled banner manager and sign up form which invites principals and teachers to request a demo of MySchoolDay. The MySchoolDay App enables parents and teachers to interact directly with their school administration, events, news and resources. This creates a sharing environment for all users. Well done XciteLogic!

27 Aug
Posted by Jayde

New site launch for Pearl Wholesaler!

Today marks the launch of Pearl Wholesaler’s new responsive, e-commerce website! They are a family-owned Australian company that sell high quality, Australian South Sea Cultured Pearls at wholesale prices. Check out their website.

 

 Launch Cake: White Gold Mudcake

29 Jun
Posted by Gregory

Revitalised Responsive Website for Steven Walter Children’s Cancer Research Foundation

The Steven Walter Children’s Cancer Research Foundation have kicked off their new branding with a smart responsive site. Clean, friendly and accessible on mobile and desktop browsers. Run your fingers across the Home Page banner!

The Foundation runs many fund raising events throughout the year so an event calendar was an essential addition. By adding an physical address in the WordPress, a google map preview is automatically generated for the event.

 

Launch Cake : Lemon Polenta Cake

Lemon Polenta Cake

 

23 May
Posted by Jane

tutti frutti launches delicious new site

It was over year ago when I first tried the delicious creations from the ‘new kid on the block in Leederville’ that is now a regular staple in my life. From the first free tasting (thanks Joel!) I was hooked… and from this ‘love’, the beginning of a lovely relationship has bloomed between Tutti Frutti and Clever Starfish.

We have helped them with their Facebook from the beginning (because we know what we want to hear and see as fans!) and have been privy to the big vision that Kathy Metaxas has for the American-born business that has been taking the world by storm.

This website one was a fun one to build and the whole Starfish team played a role in it. Of course, it is a responsive design. That means that you can fit it in your pocket and even check in on FourSquare from the mobile site.

The Leederville store is only the beginning of the exciting Tutti Frutti story unfolding… as today we launch not only their website but also the chance for West Australians to own their own Tutti Frutti shop of their own! I wish we could open one ourselves but alas, no websites would be made as we would be too busy eating straight from the taps and serving crowds of customers!

I would have to say, the biggest challenge of this site was that it induced Tutti Frutti cravings every time we spent more than a few hours in a row on it! This is seriously what happened every time someone tried to sneak off for a fix.

To celebrate the website launch, we are getting ready to eat a delicious fruit tart….

We would have eaten Tutti Frutti in celebration but we had it yesterday when we made the 404 error page. Now THAT was fun!

16 May
Posted by Jane

New Sophie Kyron site goes mobile

We are excited to announce the relaunch the new look Sophie Kyron site. Of course, with our love of responsiveness – we felt it was imperative to get this site optimised to work on tablets and phones, as you can see below.

This website features an upgraded Tentacle for the online store component  (the site won the Australian Web Awards for the old site) complete with inbuilt voucher generators and sales modules. It also seamlessly connects to StarfishSend to easily manage subscriptions and e-newsletters.

 

Special thanks to Milkable, who designed the new logo and took fabulous photos for their products under the guidance of Jayde here at CS HQ.

26 Apr
Posted by Jane

sites that work across all devices

According to Michael Walton from Nielsen Pacific, half the phones in Australia are now smart phones. For people under 34, 7 out of 10 use smart phones. Within a year it is expected that 2 out of 3 people will be using smart phones.

It is fact that smart phones really are changing the way people are accessing information and websites. To see how we are ensuring our clients are ahead of the curve ball, visit the responsive section of our projects page. To get an understanding of what responsive design is, go here.

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