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A small five page website that aids grocery shopping by its pre-written shopping list pad product.
The site demonstrates several examples of jQuery scripting with subtle hover effects and the integration of Fancybox and Page Flip plugins.
The core site functionality is the payment form that was written to integrate with DPS Pxpay payment system.

Static June, 2010 Visit Site

Shoppa Pads

Canterbury Mazda is the largest sole dealership in New Zealand. Our task at Avatar was to take the existing site (thus keeping the same URLS) and implement a new design and wrap a shopping cart around it using WordPress.
I'd used WP e-Commerce before it's probably the best cart for WordPress out there now and integrates fine with DPS.
All the vehicle pages use Fancybox to include data from the NZ Mazda site and that proved to be the most challenging part of the build.

WordPress May, 2010 Visit Site

Canterbury Mazda

Absolute New Zealand is a fully licensed travel agency specialising in luxury adventure holidays. I was responsible for implementing a custom WordPress theme that made use of taxonomies in order meet the client's search filter requirements.
Tour Options were handled by the Custom Field Template, with some tours requiring up to 90 fields to prevent the client interfering with html markup.

WordPress February, 2010 Visit Site

Absolute New Zealand

Adventure Trailrides offers off-road dirt bike and quad bike tours in New Zealand's South Island.  The design was refreshed using WordPress and the result was an attractive site with fully editable tours (CFT template), an integrated gallery using NextGen with dynamic image resizing.
The biggest hurdle was the integrating of the Cforms payment form with a third party payment service. The client had regimented beliefs with form operations so jQuery was used to extend the form and provide dynamic updating to tours / motorcycle options.

WordPress December, 2009 Visit Site

Adventure Trail Rides

Saunders Robinson Brown provides a wide range of professional legal services to its clients in Canterbury, New Zealand. Tonic Design hired me to undertake the project with the contraint that they could still maintain edibility through Dreamweaver's template system.

The result was a clean and minimal design that the client can maintain themselves.

Static April, 2009 Visit Site

SRB Law

Glenthorne Station is a 62,352 acre high country station nestled on the shores of Lake Coleridge, South Island, New Zealand.
The project allowed me to gain further understanding with WordPress's template system and the following plugins - all have which have become Avatar core plugins: CFT, All in One Seo, Site Map Generator,Page Mash.
The main goal of the site was to allow the client to maintain content and easily swap out images. The CFT and custom programming allowed this to happen.

WordPress November, 2008 Visit Site

Glenthorne Station

Although I prefer to build with WordPress, this Joomla project - the Southern Cochlear Implant Programme - is a successful site that clearly explains the benefits and outcomes of such an operation.
A nice template with easy module management allows the staff to easily manage their content and news articles.

Joomla! August, 2008 Visit Site

Southern Cochlear Implant Programme

My first project undertaken at Avatar Web Promotions. We worked closely with USave to ensure the new site was consistent with their brand image.

The result is a stylish and attractive site featuring Flash animation, a revolving advertising banner, a jQuery specials pop-up and a quick quote function.

Static July, 2008 Visit Site

USave Van and Truck Rentals