Stiff Ives is an artist/fine artist /visionary artist from Melbourne loving animals and nature and getting more and more syked all the time; drawing and painting with pencil, charcoal and acrylics and spray painting at festivals with partner Bryan Itch. The website is image based, full screen, horizontal scrolling, swipes on devices… Originally designed on … Read moreWeb Design for the artist Stiff Ives
Recently completed a transfer/ website re-design for Baby Guerrilla the paste up / street artist whose works you can see around the inner suburbs of Melbourne especially Footscray, East Brunswick, Brunswick, Fitzroy, Maribyrnong even Ringwood (check new Eastland re-development) flying high above it all off on their dreamy adventures… It was to be kept as … Read moreBaby Guerrilla web site redesign/ transfer
Super lucky to be contacted by one of my favourite street artists to do their website… I’ve been photographing Be Free‘s work for about 5 years now on the streets and in abandos, even been to a few authorised and un-authorised exhibitions and now am privileged to design their website! The Menu had to include … Read moreWeb Design for street artist Be-Free
A re-design for the infamous Adrian Doyle (of Blender Studios and painting Rutledge lane Empty-Nursery-Blue fame) was in order and luckily enough I got the call; stripped back minimal white to showcase his art, news and exhibitions: I used wordpress as mostly I do now, All-in-one SEO, Featured Image Thumbnail Grid plugin, Contact form 7, … Read moreWeb Design for Adrian Doyle
Recently I undertook my most epic redesign ever, over 1400 pages! Originally they were to be converted from ModX to WordPress but every conversion attempt resulted in broken xml or csv. So copy and paste then converting or restyling the bits of html already present. The website was a for Sprinkle – a curve-embracing Melbourne … Read moreSprinkle.com.au website re-design
Went back into time in re-designing for this particular dame: The Distinctive Dame – a vintage styling salon located in the Melbourne Deco building Mitchell House providing dos nails and makeup circa 1920-1960. The banner/navigation is image based so only displaying on devices wider than 960px (any lower and it became to messy too remain … Read moreWeb Design for the Distinctive Dame
Recently completed a huge re-design for invurt.com with over a thousand pages, luckily it was already using wordpress so it was all about finding the right theme, styling, hacking, hacking, more hacking; and as a bonus, this could only be done after 9pm due to the site being live (almost 6 years now!) Invurt is … Read moreInvurt web site re-design.
Making the Google adsense banner ad responsive for my current project has proven very frustrating. Nothing worked. It either broke the width of the screen and remained at 728px wide on mobile, stayed at 320px on laptop or was 1pxwide x 90px high and other such fun times. Finally after reading up heaps and choosing … Read moreGoogle adsense responsive ad
The Catz Pyjamas is a beautiful cat boarding house in Brunswick. I’d already been past taking photos of the graffiti next door prior to being contacted by Annette and asked for some help in maintenance and upkeep of her equally beautiful website originally designed by the independent web co with art by the kooky and … Read moreWeb design / maintenance for The Catz Pyjamas
scary. can be. when the site is biiiig. 1400-1500 pages! so first things first backup, update plugins, backup, update wordpress, backup heheheh yep THEN So the SSL had already been purchased but not ‘forced’. First change URLs in wordpress then add )(*)* to htaccess RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80 RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^sprinkle\.com.au$|^www\.sprinkle\.com.au$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://sprinkle.com.au/$1 … Read moreupdating to SSL