Project Portfolio
A selection of recent, ongoing and past projects. Click on any of the links or thumbnail images below to open the site in a new browser window or tab.
Current Projects
These are some of our projects currently under development.
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Kararu Web 2.0 Update
Search engine friendly and accessible AJAX powered update of one of our long-term customer's website. If you visit with a modern web browser you get the full AJAX experience, if not you can still access all the content in a Web 1.x manner.
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AllTravels.com
Currently just under 1,000,000 pages. AJAX powered for usability. This site covers over 800,000 destinations in 240 countries.
This version of the website is still under construction. We would appreciate any feedback and bug reports.
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Staff & Project Manager
A staff and project management system designed for tracking and managing outsourced freelance staff. Uses sessions to track employee time and effort. Some data tables inspired by the Microsoft 'Northwind' database.
Username and password required to access.
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Recent & Ongoing Projects
These are a few of our recently completed projects plus some that we built in the past and have been maintaining ever since.
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HomeInspectors.com.au
HomeInspectors.com.au is the web site of Building Diagnostic Inspection and Design (BDID Pty Ltd), owned and operated by Karl Van Der Horst in Adelaide, South Australia.
This site is a good example of a simple online brochure. It was built cheaply without a formal design layout but enables Karl to stand out from his competition and attracts a steady flow of new customers.
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Kararu Newsletter
Besides the web site we also created and maintain a monthly newsletter which enables Kararu Dive Voyages to stay in contact with their customers and agents.
The newsletter publishing program is built in PHP using a MySQL database. The program and template were developed in-house and are hosted on their server.
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Villa Casis
Located in the heart of Sanur Beach, Villa Casis was listed by Condé Nast Traveller as one of the top ten villas in Bali.
This is the the second version of the web site of Villa Casis. Graphic design and Flash development by Putu.
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HomeCheck.com.au
Another of our long term customers back for a website update. Homecheck Services needed an update to both layout and content.
No graphic designer was employed for this project, we just used their business card logo and built the layout on the fly with CSS.
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Joanna Briggs Membership
The Joanna Briggs Institute needed an online membership subscription system. It was a very complex problem that required an elegant solution, JavaScript DOM manipulation from arrays built on the fly from MySQL data.
We don't like much of the JBI site but we are very pleased with our contribution.
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Give Foundation
Built from an excellent design by Brian Bindloss of San Francisco this is the first stage site of Give Foundation (GIVE).
GIVE is a non-profit organization based in the USA who "Help people to help themselves through the power of entrepreneurship".
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Get 'Slightly' Famous
Get Slightly Famous is a marketing strategy developed by Steven Van Yoder, a San Francisco based author and journalist.
We have been maintaining this web site since 2004, it is always growing and changing. A strong combination of organic search optimisation and site promotion via online article placements ensures high visibility.
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Past Projects
A selection of our favourites from the many projects that we have done in the past. Please note that a few of these sites are no longer under our control and at least one is no longer active. We've disabled links to a site if there are any doubts about it.
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Devotional Arts
Based in Vancouver, Canada, Devotional Arts imports high quality arts and crafts from all over Asia on a wholesale basis.
This web site is an example of a Search Engine Optimised, Database Driven site built using PHP and MySQL.
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Renaissance Leadership
Creative Visions Consulting helps companies with coaching, training, team building and change management solutions. They already had a web site but wanted a web log in order to self-publish articles online.
We set up this blog on the Typepad platform based on a design by Ann Bevans-Selig of the Bevans Group.
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Creative Changes
Creative Changes provides personalized home and office organizing services. This project includes a blog hosted at blogger.com but fully integrated into the site.
Based on a design by the Bevans Group with copy writing by Steven Van Yoder.
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Villa Silvandra
Villa Silvandra is a work a fine art set in the highlands of Bali. The owners wanted to showcase their work and also wanted an online brochure for times when they wish to rent the villa in their absence.
This web site is representative of a number of sites that we have built based on a modified Project Seven template.
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John Sample Recruiting
Based in New York, John Sample Associates is a highly focused recruiting agency specializing in the rail and material handling industries.
This is a simple brochure site and was built from a design by Ann Bevans-Selig of the Bevans Group.
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Intuitive Flow
Linda Madani is a Yoga Teacher based in Ubud, Bali. Her web site content is available in three languages.
The web site is based on a design by Petra Schneider and gets a lot of traffic from the search engines.
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Bali Advertiser
Bali Advertiser is the major English language newspaper in Bali. They wanted a site to archive content and where people could place classified ads online.
We were the third team asked to develop this complex site, and the first to succeed. We maintained this site for several years but it is now managed in-house. [It has also changed colour but the code is the same.]
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Creative Twist Furniture
Creative Twist came to us semi developed with a great product range and a nice, clean design. We finished the job plus added an order cart and a Google Adwords account.
Unfortunately the company has closed and the web site is no longer online. These links have been disabled.
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Southwind Web Services can build you a new web site or improve an existing one. We can deliver a site within an agreed budget and scope of work, or at an hourly rate. Depending on your requirement we offer the choice of a one-off contract or an ongoing development and support plan. Please contact us to discuss your requirements.
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