Acorn Web Studio - Melbourne web design and web development

This blog has been quiet for a couple of weeks now, and there has been a reason for that. We've been busy deliverying on half a dozen new sites - all of them quite large

We've built some really beautiful sites. What really excites us is how they are all being run by the CMS.

Normally content managed websites tend to a certain sameness and we feel we have stepped right away from that.

Great graphic design and a compelling message on the front page is one way to get passing traffic to stop and consider becoming your customer.  To have this and a website that you can easily manage yourself is a winning combination.

Check them out.

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Web pages are basically made up of a bunches of squares and rectangles. Some of the rectangles are images, and some of them contain text, but basically everything is pretty boxy.

Because of that the average web page ends up looks pretty rigid and linear, and thus rather boring. Its partly because so many websites end up looking the same, but also because the rigid lines and fixed grid lacks visual tension and rarely lead the human eye from one point of interest to another.

When you are trying to get passing traffic to stop and look at you this is not a good thing.

Instead we have got increasingly interested in bending and breaking these conventions. We call it breaking the square.

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Want to make your site's images look something special? How about some automatic enhancements? ...read more