web
Your Identity Online
Website design, E-vite and Newsletters with stunning visuals. We focus on the design and layout of your website, e-mailer or newsletter, while you or your PR staff, focus on content.
Edit the website yourself: Articles, News, Events, Newsletters, FAQ, Galleries, QuickPolls, Catalogs, Forms, Comments and much more, with a simple, easy-to-use CMS (content management system), with endless customisation options.
We implement websites using a Content Management System (CMS). A CMS provides many benefits over traditional HTML systems.
- Database contains all content
- Web File Manager with auto-thumbnail system
- Auto-organised content via modules
- Permission-based user groups
- Immediately manage content after your first training session
Contao CMS
After extensive research, we carefully selected the open-source Contao CMS based on these primary criteria:
- ease of use
- complete template control and
- extensible web programming framework
Contao is an open source content management system (CMS) for people who want a professional internet presence that is easy to maintain. The state-of-the-art structure of the system offers a high security standard and allows you to develop search engine friendly websites that are also accessible for people with disabilities.
Furthermore, the system can be expanded flexibly and inexpensively. Easy management of user rights, the Live Update Service, the modern CSS framework and many already integrated modules (news, calendar, forms, etc.) have quickly made Contao one of the most popular open source content management systems on the market.
Developer
We are also a developer of many modules for the Contao system which have been downloaded and installed thousands of times: QuickPoll, Galleries, FormAuto Booking, Unzip, Image Headlines, Invitation, Catalog, etc.
Incentives and Event Invitations achieve maximum effect when rolled-out in a closed loop function.
The target market can be reached electronically via e-mail invitations (or e-vites) and then they interact with a event or incentive website landing page and then they either register or participate in the event or incentive.
You, as the client, gain access to the back-end system which provides download of the registrants or participants in the incentive or event. The workflow is:
- Create the Campaign or Event Concept to match the target market
- Create e-Vite to match the look and feel and concept
- Create a Landing page: Registration, Agenda, Activities, About, Galleries, etc.
- Provide Back-End access to the registration information
The client can then be sent the e-vite with a link to the landing page where they access the additional information, leading to the final registration to the event, activity or incentive.
E-Vite, Registration & Venue Page
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Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
Getting your brand noticed online and in search engines is primary concern for clients.
There are a few basic rules to ensure your website is indexed correctly by search engines by
Search Engine Optmisation is all about ensuring that your website provides the search engine with all the information it needs to correctly index your site. This includes making sure each page has a proper title, description and meta keywords.
The CMS we use, Contao CMS provides an excellent method to enter and update all this search engine information. In fact most of our clients arrive in any search engine at the top, or within the first 5 positions, even with large American companies using a similar or identical company or brand name.
Search engines also take into account how many websites and other web locations link back to your site, so it's important to have other companpies — particularly your partners — link back to your site.
In combination of having a well documented site and a well-linked site, your site should appear near the top.
Analytics
Analytics is the tool that provides summarised data about the visits to your website.
Usually we quote for adding Google Analytics to your website when installed. You will then receive and automated monthly report that provides summary data for your site. This data will include statistics like:
- Site Usage: Visits, Page views, Pages/Visit, Bounce rate, Avg. time on site, New visits
- Visitors Overview: Visitors graph per day, Browsers, Connection speed
- Map Overlay: Geographical breakdown, Visitation by Country
- Traffic Sources: Referring sites, Direct traffic, Search Engines, Keywords
- Content Overview: Top pages, count and percentage
- Goals: Contact, or other goals
Web Marketing
Web Marketing is all about promoting your brand online. You can track and measure these using the Analytics above.
Online or Web Marketing can be achieved in many ways:
- Place a Google Ad or other online advert with a major
- Create a FaceBook Fan Page for your company or brand or celebrity
- Send e-mail Newsletters to keep your clients updated with subscribe/unsubscribe options
- Send e-vites with Special Offers
- Get permission from your partner companies to link back to your website
- Distribute printed material that link back to your website
- Business Cards that link back to your website.
Any or all of these will create a unified brand structure within which your brand can flourish.
FaceBook Integration
We can link your Contao CMS blog to FaceBook, so that when you post stories they automatically appear in the FaceBook page.
Also, any Facebook RSS feed can be integrated into Contao. You can also enable FaceBook and Twitter links in your blog stories to have visitors share your stories, set-up links to your FaceBook page and Twitter account.
motion
Animate Your Identity
Motion animation on any element, shot transitions, special effects, 3D modelling, hand-animation, puppet animation, professional video editing, sound effects and music background tracks development.
From short 15-60 second banner adverts, flash screen-savers to 3 minute company profile presentations, DVDs and self-playing promotions.
Animation is the cornerstone of adding motion and dynamic aspects to your brand. From basic Flash animations using shape tween, physics-based motion, particle motion, dissolves, 3D perspective rotations and other special effects, to puppet style animations of characters and hand-drawn cartoon styles.
We have done a variety of designs ranging from:
- Website banners
- Animated menus
- Promotional video clips
- Screensaver Animations
- Flash mini-Games
- Flash Incentive Sites
- Flash Full Websites
CRF Best Employers Ad
Laughter Rays
SA Home Loans
Video editing of Standard or HD video with titling, transition effects and adding sound effects, microphone voice-over tracks. We also compose background music, jingles and music tracks.
Delivery of videos and music include:
- Short advertising videos
- Corporate self-playing videos
- Corporate expo DVDs
- Showreel DVDs
- Vocal Backing Music
A-Plus Corporate Video
Audi A4 Launch Video Advert
Food Lover's Market Video
Pimp your 2D logo into full 3D. Currently, 3D is all the rage, so adding a 3D element or anything 3D on your website or brochure, really makes things pop.
Hi-Tech Effects
Unlike the 3D of yesterday, today's we can render with real lighting conditions using effects like radiosity, Global Illumuniation and Ambient Occlusion rendering.
We have some samples below of the 3D logo and element work we've done.
Thyon Design Expo Video
3D Rendering Gallery
print
Touch your Identity
Print design that covers the digital spectrum from identity creation, logo concepts, page and magazine/newspaper ad layouts, graphic art creation, photo editing, 3D graphics, Pantone Color charts and proofing.
Print sizes from business cards, invitations, posters to banners printed on paper, fabric or plastic or moulded from rubber. Interior and exterior retail/business signs, including vehicle vinyl sticker signs.
Unique Identity & Concepts
We help our clients create a unique identity.
We start in the briefing meeting to explore and eventually find the core seed, crystal or vibration that uniquely describes every individual or company. This is the core identity.
Building on the core identity, we help to develop the extended or expressed identities which flow from this core. These may be additional businesses or directions that you might want to take in the future.
Then we create a list of concepts around the core identity. We also anticipate incorrect derivates which might have negative connotations or meanings, which you don't want to be associated with and remove them. These remaining positive-linked concepts can be transferred into an icon element, stock photography and the style of the typography (fonts) used for the name of the company, individual, incentive or concept.
Photography
Your brand is only as good as the photography to illustrate and highlight your services and activities.
We have worked across the board from external/internal photographers, local and international company-wide online stock libraries as well as managing the purchase of royalty-free stock photography from online sites per project.
Graphic Art
We provide various graphic art design services to our clients:
- Icon Illustrations
- Maps
- Charts
- Abstract Art
- Background Textures & Patterns
- Cartoon Characters
- Tracing Art
- Sale Drawings formanufacture (furniture to signage)
Photo Editing
We also do various types of photo editing, including:
- Scanning
- Batch re-sizing
- Color Balance
- Exposure Balance
- Red-eye removal
- Touch-up
- Airbrush
- Restoration
- Deep-etching (background removal)
- Hair transparency
- Masking & Compositing
3D Art
In addition to photorealistic 3D elements, we also create artwork in 3D:
- Perspective 3D Composite Art
- Outline or Wireframe 3D
- Art or Cartoon shading
Deep Etch, Cartoon, Poster, Map
Layout & Printing
A layout is about understanding space and the harmony between the elements.
Knowing how to combine Text, Art Graphics and Photography is as much a skill as it is an art form. We specialise in compiling random puzzle elements of your campaign into a meaningful and cohesive story.
We can layout anything you can image from the smallest size to the largest:
- Business Cards
- Brochures with any types of folds
- Invitations
- Post Cards
- Letterheads
- Magazine Ads
- Posters: A3 to A0
- Scale Drawings
- Event Stands
- Pull-up Banners
- Large Format Banners
- Billboards
We also understand and explain how you can add specialised services to your print run, like:
- Pantone® Color printing — transparent, opaque, fluorescent, metallic
- Metallic Foiling
- Embossing and Debossing
- Spot UV Varnish
- Machine Varnish
- Matt & Gloss Lamination
Signage
Signs are imortant for any business when they have offices, or vehicles to brand.
We can design and recommend various types of signs for various situations:
- Cut Lettering: Metal, Wood, Plastic
- Perspex Box Shaped Lettering
- Frosted Vinyl
- Solid-color Vinyl
- Digital Printed Vinyl
- Glass or Perspex Signs
- Poly-twirl Printing
- Contravision Printing (one way)
- Lightboxes
- Substrates: ABS, Correx, Chromodek, Aluminium
- Banners: Pull-up, Telescopic, Sharkfin, Teardrop, Flag
- Magnetic Decals
- Vehicle: Wrapping, Lettering, Contravision






























