#Web Design Torquay

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A well-optimized site to Boost Your Seo will also improve your Google algorithm ranking so that users are more likely to find your content when they search for keywords relevant to your business niche.

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Sites That Wow: Best Design Companies in Hervey Bay

Seeking to develop a stellar online presence for your service in Hervey Bay, Queensland? Your look for the best web design company ends here! Whether you require an easy website or a complex e-commerce platform, these first-class web design companies in Hervey Bay have actually got you covered.

The Best Web Design Companies in Hervey Bay, Queensland, Australia

Web Design Hervey Bay Shop If you're looking for top-tier web design services customized specifically to your requirements, look no more than Web Design Hervey Bay Shop. With a concentrate on customized web design, WordPress development, and responsive style, they'll ensure your site stands apart in the digital landscape. From small businesses to large corporations, their knowledge deals with all.

Web Design Hervey Bay Shop Email: webdesignherveybay@yopmail.site Phone: 07 3106 8919 Url: https://webdesignherveybay.shop/ 49 Bideford St Torquay, QLD 4655 Australia

Trade Winds Web Design Trade Winds Web Design offers professional website design services with a tailored touch. Concentrating on responsive web design and e-commerce services, they empower services to flourish online. With a keen eye for detail and a commitment to excellence, Trade Winds Web Design provides impressive results each time.

Michael Sherry Michael Sherry is an experienced professional in web design, understood for his creative approach and attention to detail. Whether you need a brand new site or a redesign of your existing one, Michael's proficiency ensures a sleek and professional result. Trust him to bring your vision to life with precision and flair.

Bark Bark connects you with talented web designers in Hervey Bay who can bring your ideas to fulfillment. With a varied pool of professionals to pick from, Bark makes discovering the ideal fit for your project a breeze. From inexpensive website design plans to custom services, they've got it all.

Upwork Upwork is a go-to platform for discovering proficient web designers who can take on any task, big or small. With a worldwide network of freelancers, you'll have access to top-tier skill from worldwide. Whether you need a website developed from scratch or a quick fix, Upwork has the competence you need.

Jen Mulligan Design Jen Mulligan Design focuses on developing lovely and functional websites that reflect your brand name's special identity. With a focus on user experience and aesthetics, Jen crafts websites that mesmerize audiences and drive results. From principle to completion, she'll guide you through the process with skill and knowledge.

Digitalon Digitalon is your one-stop destination for professional web design services in Hervey Bay. With a team of experienced designers and developers, they deliver advanced services customized to your business objectives. Whether you need a mobile-friendly site or an e-commerce platform, Digitalon has the proficiency to make it occur.

Jr Marketing Group Jr Marketing Group uses comprehensive web design services focused on helping businesses prosper online. From concept development to website launch, their group handles every element of the process with care and accuracy. With a concentrate on cost and quality, Jr Marketing Group provides outcomes that exceed expectations.

Ethne Ethne is a boutique web design agency dedicated to crafting special and impactful online experiences. With a focus on creativity and innovation, they breathe life into your concepts and turn them into truth. Whether you're a small business or a big enterprise, Ethne has the proficiency to elevate your online existence.

Diverse Website Design Diverse Website Design prides itself on developing websites that not just look terrific but likewise drive outcomes. With a group of experienced designers and developers, they deliver customized solutions tailored to your specific requirements. From responsive design to SEO optimization, Diverse Website Design has you covered.

Conclusion

When it concerns discovering the very best web design companies in Hervey Bay, Queensland, Australia, these top choices make sure to exceed your expectations. Whether you select Web Design Hervey Bay Shop for their unparalleled proficiency or select among the other outstanding alternatives on this list, you can rest assured understanding your online existence is in great hands. So why wait? Take the first step towards a stunning site today!

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The Fabulous New Store And Apartment From Colour Queen Chela Edmunds!

The Fabulous New Store And Apartment From Colour Queen Chela Edmunds!

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by Sally Tabart

The sunny new Takeawei store on Gertrude Street, Fitzroy, in Melbourne! Photo – Amelia Stanwix.

Chela with her gorgeous daughter ocean, and Rowena Martininch, who painted the mural on the side of the store. Photo – Amelia Stanwix.

Iconic Takeawei-style vases and salad bowls! Photo – Amelia Stanwix.

A selection of Takeawei ceramics. Photo – Amelia Stanwix.

Textiles from Society of Wanderers alongside Takeawei ceramics. Photo – Amelia Stanwix.

Chela reused the shelving from her previous store on Brunswick Street in the new Gertrude Street space. Photo – Amelia Stanwix.

Bright pops of colour are kinda Chela’s thing. Photo – Amelia Stanwix.

A selection of mugs, bowls, and vases from Takeawei. Photo – Amelia Stanwix.

Photo – Amelia Stanwix.

The small but mighty Takeawei store. Photo – Amelia Stanwix.

Above the shop is an apartment that Chela rents out! Green Featherston modular sofa sourced by Mood Objects. Rowena Martinich paintings. Upholstered FUN chairs by Dowel Jones. Ceramics by Takeawei. Photo – Amelia Stanwix.

Chela in Gertrude’s Apartment. Green Featherston modular sofa sourced by Mood Objects. Rowena Martinich paintings. Lighting by Takeawei. Photo – Amelia Stanwix.

The pocket-sized apartment is the perfect landing pad for a city stay! Green Featherston modular sofa sourced by Mood Objects. Rowena Martinich paintings. Upholstered FUN chairs by Dowel Jones. Fridge by Smeg. Photo – Amelia Stanwix.

The breakfast nook. Thimble stools by Dowel Jones. Photo – Amelia Stanwix.

Gertrude’s Apartment kitchenette. Photo – Amelia Stanwix.

Looking out over Gertrude Street. Chub side table by Jack Fearon for Curated Spaces. Photo – Amelia Stanwix.

Chub side table by Jack Fearon for Curated Spaces. Float bed frame by Jack Fearon for Curated Spaces. Bed linen by Society of Wanderers. Painting by Rowena Martinich. Photo – Amelia Stanwix.

The store exterior, with a fabulous mural painted by Rowena Martinich. Photo – Amelia Stanwix.

After a difficult retail year in 2020, Chela Edmunds of Takeawei Ceramics was exhausted. ‘I thought, why am I paying all this rent for a retail space when we are mainly selling online now?’ she recalls. The lease was up on her Brunswick Street store, and Torquay-based Chela thought it might be easier to pack it in and move the business 100% online. But, with so many shuttered stores due to COVID, Melbourne was feeling like a bit of a ghost town, and Chela didn’t want to give up just yet. ‘I felt a sense of responsibility to not just be another empty shop front if I could help it’, she says. ‘I took a walk on Gertrude Street and it really inspired me to be involved in the street, and Melbourne’.

Chela secured a new lease on a double-story corner building, with a narrow downstairs retail area and a little apartment upstairs, overlooking Gertrude Street. The building itself has quite an important history – it was once the Koori Information Centre, established in the early 1980s to meet a rising groundswell of community interest in Indigenous issues. Later, Aboriginal artist Lin Onus produced a popular series of comic books and t-shirts with distinctive artistic designs here!

For Chela, the narrow space with its sweet little upstairs apartment was the perfect place for new beginnings – both for her ceramics business and for the broader Melbourne community. ‘The apartment upstairs seemed like the perfect opportunity to give people a space to get out for a night or two, go see a gig, have dinner, and just enjoy themselves while supporting the area and businesses’, she says.

She’s added the Chela Edmunds creative stamp to the place, and transformed the modest spaces into a bright, colourful creative haven!

What was the process of fitting out the shop and apartment spaces like? 

Necessity really is the mother of all invention. I went in with big ideas for downstairs [shop] shelving, but was quickly brought back to earth due to cost. I ended up using paint and changing necessary things like lighting, electrical, the floor, and reusing shelving from the previous shop.

We have a great corner spot on Young and Gertrude Streets. To make the most of passing traffic we commissioned artist Rowena Martinich to paint a mural on the outside wall. It is everything I hoped for – vibrant, joyful, just what we all need right now.

Upstairs, I wanted a space that was simple, functional and vibrant, showcasing some designers I love [including artworks by Rowena Martinich, furniture by Dowel Jones and Jack Edward Fearon for Curated Spaces]. We gutted the shower but left everything else as-is, so this was what informed the furnishings. I wanted to lighten the space and, true to my style, add a mix of colour pops, texture and some natural materials. My sister Kalu Edmunds of Mood Objects was a great sounding board for styling and I also worked with her to source second-hand furniture, including the original lime green Featherston. It’s a real focal point!

Did you have any key references or inspirations for the apartment?

I wanted a warm welcoming space and imagined this was an artist’s apartment. Simple, but filled with interest and energy invested into the pieces.

I thought about a flow from the kitchen to the bedroom going from stronger colours in the kitchen to vibrant in the lounge area and softer in the bedroom.

In terms of an overall look, I just go with what I like and try to keep paring back to a smaller palette as I can get carried away with colour! There were also functional considerations, the small space and comfort for guests. I think working with great designers and objects makes it really easy!

How did all the upheavals of 2020 affect your work? 

We were lucky that for most of it we could work remotely and send online orders. I feel like our customers really rallied around and supported us during that time and I am really grateful for that.

I found it really stressful at first having staff and that responsibility, but I also found that it brought our team closer together because that’s what tough times do. We talked about what was going on, and we adapted. I’m really glad that as a business we had a strong web presence.

We are now focusing more on lighting which has been really popular this past year, and I’m looking forward to introducing more homewares to the shop. I’m getting back to my textile roots and I recently designed a blanket with Geelong Textiles that will be launching this winter.

Book a stay at Chela’s Gertrude st Apartment here!

Takeawei Ceramics

Monday – Saturday, 11am – 5pm Sunday 11am – 4pm Closed public holidays

120 Gertrude Street Fitzroy, Victoria

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£18,000-£20,000 Graphic Designer Job Torquay, Devon

£18,000-£20,000 Graphic Designer Job Torquay, Devon

If you are interested working as a Graphic Designer with a fast-growing web design company based in the South West, yet working with clients nationwide. The company is an expanding website design and development company based in the South-West. Their large studios are based in the centre of Torquay, parking and train stations are within easy reach.

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Introduction

Cockington Green Gardens is a miniature world with models displaying buildings from around the world. It was opened by Doug and Brenda Sarah in 1979 with their display of UK models and was extended in 2007 with 24 other countries.

Design Problem

When it comes to engagement with children at Cockington Green Gardens, children can often get distracted and don’t necessarily pay too much attention to what is being displayed. There is nothing to help them interact with the models which can lead to a timely visit.

Content and Context

My design proposal will aim to encourage children and possibly even adults to play close attention to the detail of the models. In addition, the proposal is also aiming to have an educational basis that helps encourage visitors to interact with the history of both UK architecture/lifestyle over the past 150 years and other worldly locations/architecture.

Design Proposal

In relation to the established design problem and the content and context discussed above, my design proposal is an app for children aged 3-10 to help them engage more with the models and the history that is so well encapsulated in the models presented at Cockington Green Gardens.

The app will be a game that will focus on the models and some of the quirky details that are in them. A ‘Can you spot the….?’, ‘Find the….?’, ‘I spy with my little eye’ game where the children locate the item or model and can tick that building off the map and possibly get some kind of reward. The children might be presented with questions about the particular building (if there is no quirky element) that can be found on the display.

There will also be an audio element to the app where as the children walk around the site they can wear their headphones and at particular models there will be sound effects in relation to that model. For example, a farm model could have farm animal sound effects, and the soccer display might have cheering sound effects to create an atmosphere according to each location and display.

Once the user finds the object, they will have the ability to take a photo/scan the object via the camera and then be congratulated in some way on their findings.  

There will be two options on the app:

Follow the designed route to complete the full circuit

The existing map and site have red arrows that visitors are recommended to follow, so the designed route will follow the lead of the existing route

Choose your own path and tick them off at your own pleasure

In some ways my proposal is quite new and exciting because although there are existing games with similar intentions of ‘finding things’ there aren’t any that are directly linked to a physical experience in a cultural institution. 

Cockington Green: current use of web and digital media

In terms of web and digital media use, Cockington Green doesn’t have much to go by. There is no digital media on site, the only interactive elements include buttons located around the displays that control elements of the models. For example, small model trains and windmills that are push-button operated by visitors. On arrival guests receive a handheld map and booklet. The only physical evidence of web based platforms is on the map brochure where there is encouragement to ‘share your experience’ through Facebook, Twitter, and hash tagging #cockingtongreen on Instagram. Their website is quite basic and doesn’t invite interaction, it is purely information based.

In the ‘Education’ section of the website there is a school discovery worksheet which is in a sense similar to what my proposal is, except it’s a printed sheet with no web based material involved.

Existing design solutions

Babbacombe Model Village

Babbacombe Model Village is located in Babbacombe, Torquay in the United Kingdom and was opened in 1963 by Tom Bobbins. The interesting part about this model village is that it was visited by the Sarah family and was the inspiration behind Cockington Green Gardens. Cockington Green Gardens is named after a village also located in Torquay, right next to Babbacombe.

Babbacombe Village is in a few aspects more interactive than Cockington Green. Although the concept is extremely similar they have done a lot of things better in terms of web presence. For starters their website, beginning with the home page, is much more modern, is designed quite nicely, it is easy to navigate and begins with an invitation to ‘see what you can discover’. 

Sound and audio: Babbacombe uses a multitude of different sound effects to help enhance the physical models which give the whole experience a sense of atmosphere and connection to the visitors.

Animation: As well as an abundance of audio elements, Babbacombe uses a lot of animation in their models. Some of which include live fire (fire breathing dragon), but also subtle animations of the human models that ‘live’ in the town. Although they still don’t have an app or any other overwhelming web based interactivities, they do have a lot more visual and audio effects built into their models to help make the displays humorous and intriguing. 

Youtube presence: On Babbacombe’s youtube page there are a few short films based on the characters in the village that extend their intention of humour from the physical space to an online presence. 

Extra dimension of fun: Babbacombe appears to have a similar view of creating a fun-filled experience for visitors that I have envisioned for my proposal. There is a ‘spotter sheet’ for children that is essentially an extra activity to help them get involved with the models and a quote from the website: ‘One visit is never enough to spot it all. For example; Annie Seedballs – the confectioners shop; Can you spot the man mowing the lawn – he has been mowing the same patch for over 20 years! Can you spot the ghost in the tower – many visitors in a hurry miss it!’ (BABBACOMBE MODEL VILLAGE, 2007-2017). Babbacombe offers a 4D movie experience titled The House of Magic which isn’t only an immersive experience itself, it leads the visitor to another find-a-game whereby the viewers can find the characters of the movie hidden within the gardens.

LegoLand

Legoland California Resort is a theme park resort that has a multitude of different activities. Part of the resort is Mini Land USA. This miniature world is built entirely of Lego and focuses around attractions of America.

Sound and audio: Not unlike the other miniature worlds Mini Land USA has sound effects and audio based on the different displays. For example, New York has relevant music playing along with street sound effects such as fire sirens and mini San Francisco has sound effects that were recorded live at Pier 39 along with many of the other miniland sites.

Animation: In relation to animation throughout LegoLand’s miniature world, there are cars, boats, trains, trucks etc that drive themselves, and some of the Lego humans appear to be animated as well all mixed with relevant and enhancing audio.

Without visiting, it’s not evident whether or not the effects are automatic or are push-button activated.

Context and control: LegoLand has a free downloadable app that includes a very detailed map. This map multiple different filter options that allow the user to narrow down their needs. 

The map uses the users location to navigate them throughout the park. There are markers for the different attractions on the map that when the user clicks on them, pop up boxes appear with more information on that attraction and an option to ‘Go here’ where the map highlights the best route via location services.

The map does not however highlight any particular route for the theme park. The app itself is relatively clear and easy to navigate with simple text and colour options that don’t take away from the real life experience.

Adventure: LegoLand holds Pop Badge Challenges which gives visitors extra activities and challenges to add to their experience. On completion of particular challenges, players receive Pop Badges that they can wear on a lanyard. As an example, one of the most recent Badge challenges participants to ‘Spot an employee fashioning the Mr Gold Pop Badge in Park on their uniform or their lanyard.’ (Mary, 2016). This is an example of encouraging visitors to interact with the space they are in and contributing to their experience in a fun and engaging manner through the use of games and ‘finding’ particular items. Pop Badge Challenges not only allow for a fun experience, there is a reward and a collectible to receive at the end of it.

LegoLand Windsor Resort

In addition to the LegoLand Windsor Resort is another LegoLand with an app. However, this app allows more interaction with the user rather than just a map. There is a section in the app called ‘Fun’. The user can design a personalised post card, do LegoLand quizzes, read fun facts and even scan codes found around the Resort to unlock videos and other content. 

Insights

After much research on existing design solutions in relation to Cockington Green and miniature worlds, my proposal can be enhanced through some of the existing techniques used, including:

The app should be minimal and easy to read especially considering the users are more likely to be children

Using positive and fun provoking phrases can be what draws the user in and keeps them interested in both the app and the physical space

Sound effects are a positive interaction, however, rather than having them on site they can be included within the app to enhance and personalise the experience

Maps should be clear with easy to use buttons

Having a direct route clearly labelled on the map can ease the experience for the visitor, however, allowing them to have access to creating their own route and leisurely exploring can be more positive for some

Rewards for certain achievements can be positive, especially for children and engaging them with physical ‘prizes’ or even acknowledgements can make gaming more of a success

Personalising the users experience is important

Battery life can be an issue with a gaming app

Product Backlog

I want to have a map that shows me the entire route of Cockington Green

I want to have the option to choose my own route

I want the audio to play automatically when I register that I am at a particular model

I want to have an easy to read question when playing the ‘find’ game

I need a ‘found’ or ‘answer’ button for when I have found the correct item. This then needs to give me the option for taking a photo/scanning the item. Or multiple choice answers (if a question)

I need to have a screen that lets me know if my answers are correct

I want to be able to share my experience whether it is photos or answers to my friends and family

I want to have seamless transitions between screens

I want to be able to mute the app