Passionfruit

Photo Bliss is a Wellington business who specialise in Wedding Photography. Run by Jin Cowan, the business needed a targeted online solution to point potential clients in their Magazine advertising. The site focus is to the quality of the work with supporting information such as contact details and testimonials within easy reach of all content. Also, a great deal of technology went into protecting the images from downloading off the site, so the intellectual property is maintained.

Sharps Autoglass are a company who has operated their business for over 25 years. They wanted to make people aware of the services they offered, and show their sense of professionalism and quality of work. Many of the local car clubs in Wellington use Sharps for windscreen repairs, because they wouldn’t trust the job to anyone else. We provided strategy, design and implementation in WordPress so all the content could be managed by Sharps.

Vogel Motors is based in Alicetown in Lower Hutt, and are one of the most innovative workshops in New Zealand having won the coveted MTA Supreme Automotive Repairer of the year award. They needed a website that matched their reputation as one of the best in the business, which included the ability to book online and an integrated e-news marketing system to look after their client database. We provided a state of the art system completely customised and built in WordPress.

Property Values is a site that aims to provide reports for property owners wondering about the current market value of their home. A brand was also required for this project that indicated the nature of the site. The end result is a client who is very happy with the outcome.

Time2sell is a follow up site for the same client who engaged Passionfruit to build time2buy.co.nz. The original site was so successful they approached us a second time to build a site aimed at sellers. Time2sell takes the guess work out of deciding whether or not to sell your home no matter where you are in New Zealand.

Technologies: Pen and Paper, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Fireworks, Aptana, XHTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, WordPress, Multiple Plugins

The Challenge: Create and modern look and feel for an original marketplace brand to improve sales, inquiries and brand perception and recognition within the marketplace.

Our Solution: We used a number of innovative javascript techniques to showcase important links on the front page, as well as targeted approach by product and audience group to deliver key information to the right people. WordPress was used complete with a full set of instructional video tutorials to make updating and managing the site a breeze.

Neil Cross is an established British author living in New Zealand, and needed a site to promote his novels and catch traffic from the pending release of his latest Television work “Luther” being released on BBC One in the UK in 2010. A large body of established design and branding had to be considered in approaching the site design, as Neil’s books already had a distinct look for the cover art. A grunge approach was taken to match up with the existing design and Neil’s own writing style.

INF are an NGO working with the poor and underprivileged in Nepal. Passionfruit was responsible for designing the site architecture for their new gift catalogue as one of our pro bono charity jobs. The focus was to creating an easy to use site out of a complex e-commerce arrangement that required payment in several different currencies, a fully integrated gift card system with a range of options, and back end management to keep track of all gift items and up to date currency exchange rates. Through giving specific gifts to the Nepalise that INF are working with they are able to make a huge impact in the community, and direct the attention where it is most needed.

Technologies: Pen and Paper, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Fireworks, Aptana, XHTML, CSS, PHP, WordPress, Multiple Plugins

The Challenge: Take an existing site with 400+ pages, 200,000+ words of content, and a history of organic growth resulting in a main menu with over 25 top level links, and provide a framework that multiple users can engage with that will service the school for the next 10 years.

Our Solution: The key to Hutt Valley High Schools site, was defining a robust site structure that differentiated between static content that changed irregularly from important information and notices that needed to be delivered to specific audiences within the school. This resulted in a segmentation of information into audience groups of parents, students and teachers drawing out key content for each group and delivering it to them on specific pages designed for their use.

Time2buy is a site aimed at property owners looking to sell their property in New Zealand. By having a simple interface with the lead form situated on the front page, the site focus is to getting users to complete the form. By providing the form on the front page there is a strong call to action which is absolutely vital to a websites success. This website has been so successful, the site owner has engaged Passionfruit to build a second site – time2sell.