Chemtura AgroSolutions email template

The HTML email template developed for the Agro division of Chemtura Australia.

AuSFO CMS Website

After 5 years running on the original system we built, with no updates whatsoever, the CMS website for the Australian Society of Forensic Odontology Inc. (AuSFO) has finally been through a deserved revamp.

Although Joomla is on our top 3 CMS list, we normally tend to favour Drupal, specially when it comes to flexibility on more complex systems. That said, I have to confess the Akeeba modules on Joomla, for system administration, impressed me quite a bit. It made the whole process a breeze, really amazing tools. And that’s something Drupal hasn’t been able to do yet: core updates. Let alone upgrades.

The job was to upgrade the core of their current website system to its latest version, update the contributed modules and add a few more features, such as blogging. During the testing phase we quickly learnt we would had to come up with different solutions for some of the components that lost compatibility straight away, such as the events list one and the template. I guess, that’s the price if you want to go with the latest technology – but it’s well worthy. Long story short, after a few days researching and testing new modules, fortunately it all went well. Yes, there is a lot more we can do, but we will leave it for the next chapter, hopefully not too far away. I the meantime, we keep ourselves busy constantly learning and trying new stuff out, so when you ask for a techie solution, we have already checked what works and what doesn’t.

For further information, visit:

AuSFO: http://www.ausfo.org.au
Joomla official site: http://www.joomla.org
Akeeba Backup: https://www.akeebabackup.com

SPASA SA Website

This is the latest version of SPASA SA CMS website. They were having difficulties to manage and update the content with the previous system, so we re-developed their website from the ground up.

This new one is by far much more powerful and flexible, it allows them to update any content within the system, such as blog entries, pages, users, member businesses etc. Amongst other features, its highlight is a (very cool) layered mapping system with categories as switchable checkboxes that toggles the appearance of businesses on the map. All done automatically, if the business has an physical address, it’s on the map – too easy.

Did I mentioned the mapping system will search for the address for you and setup the mark position on the map, on the fly? Oh well, I did say it was cool though. Basically, it’s the power back on the customer’s hands. To the user, it makes content search and navigation a lot more straightforward. To the owner association, it makes content management a ‘walk in the park’. To us, it makes perfect sense.

For further information on SPASA SA, visit http://spasasa.com.au

BioGuard Product Range Design Survey

BioLab was developing new lines of products, which I helped with some visuals too, and wanted to know from their team members and retailer their opinion on the right container, look and feel and size range. So, I developed this online interactive survey system developed, so they could vote on their favourite candidates.

Today, there are plenty of web apps out that will do that with ease, but at the time this was novelty and quite handy too. People could choose and rate their preferred packaging options by interacting with a 360-degree product viewer, as well as leave feedback and comments about their choice.

“This is fantastic data, it will be a great addition to the conference showing that we learn from our ‘mistakes’. See this format being used each quarter for the business to get buy-in. Congratulations on getting the sample data to help us make the right decisions.”

L. McGrath

Commercial Director, BioLab Australia

“Great stuff. Please pass on my thanks to Perroud for an excellent research project. Cheers”

J. Badger

Marketing Manager, BioLab Australia