e-CBD's Web Design Portfolio

We have made over 500 websites in the last 10 years. Some of them have one page and cost one hundred dollars, others have 20,000 pages and cost twenty thousand dollars. To help you get a picture of the scope of work we do we've arranged our portfolio by industry - choose a category below to see examples of our work, or just scroll down the page to get an overall picure of what we do:

• Arts, Music and Fashion
• Government Websites
• Health and Medical
• Legal and Financial Websites
• Manufacturing and Construction
• Mining
• Non-Profit and Non-Government Organisations
• Online Stores
• Real Estate and Property Development
• Restaurants
• Tourism, Transport and Accommodation

Arts, Music and Fashion

Peter Moore.net

Peter Moore is an Australian travel writer who has just released his eighth book, titled 'Vroom with a View' - a story about riding the Italian coastline on an orange 1970s Vespa. Peter was a pioneer of the online travel journal and was winning awards for his websites and blogs as far back as 1995, but he decided it was time for a revamp and brought e-CBD on board to modernise and professionalise his work. The result is a funky new design with a bunch of interactive features like blogs and photo galleries which we integrated so he could update the content for his thousands of subscribers from the far-flung corners of the globe he finds himself blogging from. We love it, and we even got a signed copy of his book for our efforts.

http://www.petermoore.net
http://www.petermoore.net/blog/wordpress/

Black Market Rhythm Co.

Indy rock/pop sensations Black Market Rhythm Co. already had a great-looking website, but when the summer festival season rolled around and they were announced as part of the Big Day Out lineup and a new album launch loomed, the band felt their MySpace needed a major overhaul beyond what was possible with the countless 'pimp MySpace' tools could offer. e-CBD delved deep into the code and created some hot new graphics to match the album's artwork and ensured that fans could easily find the band's videos, vote and request songs at major radio and TV stations and sign up to the email list without leaving the comfort of their social network.

http://www.myspace.com/theblackmarketrhythmco
Approximate Cost: $360

John Cooney

When you are a New York based broadway and movie star it's all about image. So when John Cooney needed a new website he had to make a statement. Like showbiz itself, his website had to be funky, functional, flash and in your face. Rather than choose an American firm to build his web presence John wanted someone with a different take (and a weaker currency) — so he headed down under and asked e-CBD to work our magic.

http://www.johncooneyonline.com
Approximate Cost: $2200

LM Images

It's safe to say that with photographers, image is everything. You could be the best photographer in the world, but if your website is crap no one is going to want you to take their photo. LM Images wanted a complete flash website with class and elegance to showcase their distinctive style of photography.

http://www.lmimages.com.au
Approximate Cost: $2800

Rant Clothing

Rant Clothing needed a simple, cost-effective website which showcased their current clothing range and didn't break the bank. As designers they already had a pretty good idea of what they wanted their website to look like so we helped them out by turning their sketches into a fully compliant website for the real world: no mess, no fuss...

http://www.rantclothing.com.au
Approximate Cost: $550

Government Websites

Australian Labor

In the lead up to the 2007 Federal Election The Australian Labor Party had begun implementing a major new branding strategy and it was vital that their official website reflected the new style, new look and new leader. Labor wanted their website to be a shining example of how the Internet can be used by a major organisation as a communications tool, news source, information library and reference point. Importantly, they wanted to leverage the power of Internet marketing to help people find answers to questions about the party, its policies and its people. e-CBD designed the stuff you see (working with our good friends at Ausnix who did all the hard work on the back end programming), constructed the layout (in CSS and XHTML for those of you playing at home) and designed a version specifically for mobile devices (mobile.alp.org.au). We also advised on ways to bring the site to new audiences, including search engine optimisation and social networking.

http://www.alp.org.au
http://mobile.alp.org.au

Gold Coast Regional Area Consultative Committee

Area Consultative Committees are a federal government initiative which help local organisations find funding and create jobs.

We created a new website for the GCRACC and allowed them to send out email newsletters and update the site's text and images from any computer via an online content management system.

http://www.gcracc.org.au
Approximate Cost: $5500

Labor's 2007 Federal Election Campaign

In addition to alp.org.au, Australian Labor also needed a wide range of secondary websites to support the election campaign and get the party message across. e-CBD designed a range of PR sites, such as howardfacts.com, flash animations, websites for state party branches, candidates (including Maxine McKew) and mobile versions to enhance the messages from the communications team. In consultation with the campaign directors and IT staff, e-CBD was responsible for crafting the visual design for a large portion of Labor's (winning) web campaign in the 2007 Federal Election (although please note that while we'd love to claim it as our own, the Kevin07.com website was not our work!).

Health and Medical

PPA Day Surgeries

PPA Day Surgeries is a national network of family planning clinics. Their website is an important source of information for men and women and the client needed to ensure that it answered questions and explained their range of procedures in an easy-to access format.

http://www.ppadaysurgeries.com/
Approximate cost: $2800

Paul Allison

Dr Allison is an Ear Nose and Throat Surgeon based on the Gold Coast. He needed a simple website that provided patients with easy access to a range of information leaflets relating to their surgery, and details on where to find his practice. It's not the most complex site we've ever built, but it is clean, simple and effective.

http://www.paulallison.com
Approximate cost: $2200

Legal and Financial Websites

Elite Traders Group

Elite Traders Group is a leading education and mentoring organisation that specialises in teaching retail and private clients how to invest and trade markets ranging from shares and options through to CFDs and Futures across all time frames. Their site needed a strong selling focus and had to clearly lead potential clients to make a purchasing decision without beating them over the head. e-CBD looked at a range of usability studies and created a friendly site that does it's job perfectly. We also hooked up a sophisticated members area giving clients access to regularly updated video content and real-time online conferencing facilities.

http://www.elitetradersgroup.com/

Praemium Portfolio Services Ltd

With over $7 billion worth of funds utilising their groundbreaking share portfolio management system, Praemium has clients and web presences around Australia and right across the UK. The company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange in May 2006 and e-CBD has been on hand all the way to design and manage their websites to global standards of excellence.

http://www.praemium.com
http://www.praemium.co.uk
http://www.praemium.com.au

Qld Collaborative Law

As the peak body representing collaborative lawyers in Queensland, Qld Collaborative Law couldn't settle for anything but a brilliant website.

e-CBD's experience building and managing websites for a number of the Gold Coast's leading law firms made us the natural choice.

http://www.qldcollablaw.com.au Approximate Cost: $1800

ABKJ Lawyers

As one of the Gold Coast's premier commercial and family law firms, ABKJ needed a web presence which lived up to their high standard and allowed clients (and potential new clients) to learn everything they need to know about the firm without having to look too hard or navigate through pages of information.

http://www.abkj.com.au/
Approximate Cost: $2800

Manufacturing and Construction

Green Fuels

Green Fuels is an Australian company with a goal of being the largest producer of Biodiesel in Victoria.

e-CBD built a temporary website for them as a brief showcase for potential customers while the firm collated more data and information for the offical launch of their site.

http://www.greenfuels.com.au/
Approximate cost: $700

Mining

Wedgetail Mining Ltd

Wedgetail Mining Limited (ASX Code: WTE) is an emerging metals company focused on the exploration and development of a large tenement portfolio in the East Pilbara region of Western Australia. Their website had to be a useful tool for shareholders and media stakeholders alike to find the latest information, whilst still being easy to update by staff, whether they're in the desert or their offices.

http://www.wedgetail.net.au/

Golden Gate Petroleum Ltd

Golden Gate is a focused petroleum exploration and production company with an exploration portfolio in the Gulf of Mexico containing world-class prospects. The company has successfully completed four discoveries over past 20 months which has seen production rise eight-fold over this period. e-CBD has been on-hand to ensure their website stays fresh and is easily updatable by staff no matter where they are in the world.

http://www.ggpl.com.au/

Exco Resources

Exco Resources N.L. is an ASX-listed gold and copper mining and exploration company valued at $31 million. They've had a big year of exploration and discovery and needed a professional website so investors and the media could get the latest company information and financials at the click of a mouse. The site had to look fantastic and be interactive enough to keep people coming back. e-CBD produced a piece of cyber-gold.

http://www.excoresources.com.au
Approximate Cost: $2200

Non-Profit and Non-Government Organisations

Microfinance Pasifika

The Microfinance Pasifika Network is an alliance of institutions committed to supporting disadvantaged people in the Pacific to improve their quality of life through the provision of sustainable financial services such as savings, credit, remittances and payment services and insurance. e-CBD has created a web portal for the organisation that allows members from across the Pacific to join online discussion forums, participate in e-learning programs, chat to each other securely online and interact in a way that is only possible with a state of the art website.

http://www.microfinance-pasifika.org

Online Stores

Top Margin

Award-Winning resume writer Gayle Howard only has one shopfront: www.topmargin.com. Her business depends on having a website with a strong sales focus and if her site doesn't sell, she doesn't make any money.

Gayle brought e-CBD on board to re-develop and re-design a fantastic looking online store with an easy-to-use shopping cart and no-fuss payment processing system. We created a custom gateway designed especially to cater for her unique product and it's working a treat.

http://www.topmargin.com

Real Estate and Property Development

Keys realty on Main Beach

One of Queensland's most prestigious boutique real estate agencies relies on e-CBD to keep their website up to date and their multi million dollar properties selling. The site is now used in industry training as an example of how a good real estate web presence should work, and the interactive map of Main Beach produced especially for Keys is one of the most photo-copied bits of cyberspace on the Gold Coast. Keys regularly sells million-dollar plus properties straight from the web and their live chat feature is a hit with web surfers who can get ask questions and get answers in real time. Perhaps the greatest thing about the site is that Keys' staff can update the site themselves using Macromedia content management software.

http://www.realtygoldcoast.com
Approximate Cost: $3500

Noosa Civic

Stockwells is a Queensland-based property development firm currently building the new shopping and business hub of the Sunshine Coast — Noosa Civic. With a Woolworths, Big W, Caltex and 70 retailers it will become the main shopping centre for the northern end of the Sunshine Coast. The website had to showcase the development and give stakeholders all the information they needed at their fingertips. e-CBD build the entire site using Flash and launched in mid-April 2005.

http://www.noosacivic.com.au
Approximate Cost: $2200

Restaurants

Tukka

Tukka is probably the best native Australian cuisine restaurant in the world, and when they decided to build a website they wanted to set new standards for what a restaurant could do online. They spoke to every web design firm in Brisbane but chose e-CBD because our experiences building online communities meant we could make their dream a reality. Tukka now have an online store, Australian food forums, e-mail magazine, unique recipe downloads, booking system, web cams and much more.

http://www.tukkarestaurant.com.au

Eves on the River

As one of Brisbane's most popular up-market restaurants, Eves on the River occupies a gorgeous spot on the river in the historic McTaggart's Place Woolstore. They had been a client of e-CBD for over five years and our recent overhaul of the website is making mouths water across the city.

http://www.evesontheriver.com
Approximate Cost: $2800

Tourism, Transport and Accommodation

Gold Coast Australia.com

One of the most popular sources of information for Gold Coast accommodation and advice, this tourism portal uses the latest AJAX technology to search holiday accommodation in apartments and hotels from around the city. We also designed and deployed a unique virtual tour system to showcase suburbs and advise on ways to make the site as user-friendly and goal-oriented as possible. The result was a massive increase in revenue, visitor loyalty and satisfaction.

http://www.goldcoastaustralia.com/

La Folie Guiche

It started as a small project to build an online brochure for a client's holiday villa in France and turned into one of our favourite websites — it's not grande on scale, there's only a few pages, and it wasn't hugely expensive, but it's a lovely example of what can happen when we get great photos to work with and we get excited about creating something just that little bit different.

http://www.lafolielaguiche.com
Approximate cost: $3300

Reality Cruises

Reality Cruises operates one of the most popular dive and cruise boats in Brisbane and they called on e-CBD's tourism marketing expertise to ensure their online presence was as effective as possible.

We chose appropriate photography and a delightful design which is reaping rewards and ensuring Reality Cruises sees a strong return on their investment.

http://www.realitycruises.com.au Approximate Cost: $1800

Tattersalls Club

Tattersall's Club was founded in 1865 by a group of gentlemen who were prominent in both business and in the thoroughbred horseracing industry in Queensland.

Websites weren't invented then but when they did arrive on the scene some years later, e-CBD was on hand to ensure everything was managed smoothly and looked great.

We're currenlty e-commercing the system so members can pay their accounts online for anything from accommodation to last week's bar tab.

http://www.tattersallsclub.com
Approximate Cost: $3500

Air on Broadbeach

As one of the premier luxury beachfront high-rises on the Gold Coast, you can't sell accommodation at Air from a website that looks anything less than high class. Our client owns a range of luxury apartments around the city and we designed a suite of branded sites for them to showcase their properties to a global audience. We also conducted a major search engine optimisation campaign to ensure that their sites were at the top of Google when people searched for them.

http://www.aironbroadbeachresort.com/
Approximate Cost: $2000

Access to Limousines

Access to Limousines have the largest fleet in Queensland and operate everywhere from Cairns to the Gold Coast. They have been e-CBD clients for four years and when it came time to re-develop their website with a new image, they were more than happy to put e-CBD up to the task.

http://www.accesstolimousines.com
Approximate Cost: $1500

WotToDo.com.au

Wot To Do is an online database and virtual guide of things to do in Australia. It's the largest website of it's kind in the world and e-CBD helped develop the complex infrastructure that goes into making a database of over 10,000 businesses easily searchable, easy to navigate, easy to find in Google and easy to use. We also created mechanisms to prevent the data being stolen or appropriated, including phone number and email encoding and spambot protection.

http://www.wottodo.com.au/