Acorn Web Studio - Melbourne web design and web development

Domain Property Advocates

One of our most interesting development projects to date. Domain Property Advocates are a Melbourne-based company providing independent advice in relation to residential and commercial property for both local and international clients. The website is run over 5 separate domain names innovatively managed by the one CMS, each domain has a combination of unique and shared content. Changes to shared content will cascade through the 5 separate locations.

Alba Hawaiian

Proving a range of exotic body care treatments with hawaiian influences, the Alba Hawaiian website needed to have a full Product Catalogue, Store listings and a Gallery for promotional purposes. The design is something you would expect from a flash website but is built entirely with CSS and HTML.

Bambini Amore - Smart Babywraps

Bambini Amore make Smart Babywraps™ using the finest Egyptian cotton, they are designed to wrap snugly around a baby's body, replicating the comfort and warmth of the womb. As a starting business they were looking for a way to rapidly reach out and attract customers.

The website needed to provide customers with comparative information about this new product, allowing customers to view and even purchase each product in the product range. As well as using a Blog for customers to find out more about the people behind Bambini Amore.

Diamond Accounting

Designed to be the most friendly and helpfull accountant's website you will ever come across. Most other accountants' sites draw their content directly from the ATO - a solution which offers very little value for typical customers. Diamond Accounting decided to do something different to help differentiate themselves from their competitors - publishing accessible user friendly information instead.

With a strong use of Iconography, the site has helpfull reminders run by it's Calendar and News channels. Each section provides it's own easy to understand description, coupled with Important dates/timelines and links to more detailed descriptions on the ATO website.

The design was provided by the very talented JoJoe, the strategy behind it all was created in-house by Acorn

Fitstyler is a great fitness coaching business that runs out of North Fitzroy and Melbourne. As a starting business they were looking for a way to rapidly reach out and attract customers. As a result of their research they found that the web was the obvious choice.

A three-fold strategy

Firstly they created an attractive and professional looking website, and populated it with valuable free content that rewarded visitors. They encouraged repeat visits by regularly updating and adding to this content.

Secondly they used existing web forums and portals to attract traffic to the site. They also set up an email newsletter campaign using the excellent campaignmonitor tool to attract new customers and engage with existing ones.  This latter tool also provided invaluable marketing information about their clients' interests.

Finally they created, tested and refined multiple web forms to record customer information and applications for training programs.  Using their inbuilt stats packages allowed them to refine their conversion rates.

Acorn's role in this was in giving Fitstyler a flexible and adaptable platform to grow their business online.  Wherever possible, authoring and content creation was handed over to Fitstyler directly.  Where this was not possible our systems and presentation were flexible enough that any changes we made were effected quickly and cheaply.

Love Your Business

The Love Your Business mission is to change the way business is done globally, nurturing organisations to thrive by growing love. Central to this ideal is the Love Your Business Community. A large group of business leaders and like minded thinkers who have incorporated the Love Your Business philosophy into their own practices.

A website built for such a strong community required more than our normal Content Management System.

Cataract Surgeon

A two part website dedicated to helping patients understand cataracts, what they are, how they affect you and what can be done to treat them. As well as a member's only section for fellow Optometrists. The most important thing for the website was to have it completely legible, even providing the viewer's with the option of increasing the font-sizes, something that most browsers can do anyway but that not all people know about.

Simon Gerrans

Simon Gerrans is an Australian Cyclist who needed a website to keep the public up to date with news and events, his Race calendar, the results from past races, sponsors and contact information.

Another great design from Liquid creativity.

This site is just another example at the many different layouts that we can achieve with our content management system.  Using the open source system, CMS made simple, Acorn can deliver a site which is easy to manage, and which can deliver any presentation affect that you desire.

Linking to additional functionality

Allen Moving uses a powerful online quote tool. Often the best way to access online functionality is to purchase services from online specialists, rather than getting your web developer to re-invent the wheel for you. In this case a simple link gives prospective clients all the information that they need.

Martin Gallon International Art

The Martin Gallon site is designed to be a gallery site to present the collected artworks in the best possible light.  With a light minimalist design the website stands back to let the artworks speak for themselves.

Once again a key goal of this site is to allow Martin to manage all aspects of this site himself, and to make it so easy that it becomes a part of his weekly business practice.

JWA Marketing

JWA is a marketing services agency whose core strength lies in actively engaging audiences with their clients message through diverse and creative experiences.
The JWA website is simple yet beautiful with a flash banner that's images can be updated just as easily as any image in the CMS system. Bringing the ultimate flexibility to a flash based object.

Educaton Tasmania

Education Tasmania creatively highlights education opportunities around Tasmania for domestic as well as International students.

This website is one of our most decorative and customised development projects. A treat for any print designer, it keeps a fixed height with Javascript based pagination as well as content that slides up to hide / show on the users request. It also incorporates SIFR for a custom font to keep with the book theme.

CRC Financial Services provides a comprehensive range of financial advice and assistance.

Designed by Baseline and implementing a strong use of branding with company colours. This website provides a communityy area for posting classified adverts of second hand sporting equipment and also contains an online shop for SHQ's own pproducts.

The central focus for this website is on market segmentation of its customers, which are devided into Wind, Surf, Skate, SUP, Kite and Snow. The homepage rotates between these segements – each leading through to a specific landing page with relevant content and products.

The home page will also remember which segment a user has previously clicked on and represent it without cycling through the others.