Netmechanics

Working again – in Germany

admin — Wed, 02 May 2012 08:45:43 +0000

Our holiday is over and we are back at work, in Germany. Gwilym is now full time web-developing and Merle stepping in for graphic projects as needed.

Busy autumn…holidays and more work…

admin — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 01:41:20 +0000

As you can see, while this feed hasn’t been updated much, a lot has been going on over the last few months. We’ve been putting a lot of new sites live and also looking after Spiderweb Designs clients while Jo has been away. Too busy actually – which is why we’re off on holiday on the 2nd April for 3 1/2 weeks!

If you have problems we will still be contactable and in dire emergencies you can always email fire@netmechanics.co.nz which will be monitored. For new sites and project work we’re booking up the calendar at the moment starting from 1st May, the weeks are filling fast.

Happy New Year !

admin — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:56:31 +0000

Have been so busy building websites lately that I haven’t had time to write much up. Much of the work lately has been trouble-shooting for other web designers so not many major projects, sure to be some in the New Year though.

Slideshows

admin — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:34:51 +0000

Having a bit of fun today making slideshows – so many options now in the Jquery slideshow plugin space. Am liking Colorbox (example) and while it doesn’t seem easy to customize using the Google PDF viewer in an iFrame is damn useful (example).

www.cafe.gen.nz website live

admin — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 00:53:48 +0000

A big project we’ve been working on the last few weeks – chack it out www.cafe.gen.nz

Drupal, Drupal, Drupal

admin — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:08:51 +0000

Been very busy lately working on three separate Drupal sites. After a bit of mind bending I can now confidently announce Drupal is astonishing.

Yes, there are several million modules and settings but once you get rolling the possibilities are truly astonishing. It is a well equipped workshop compared to Joomlas $2 shop tool kit and a powerhouse truck compared to WordPresses svelte sports carelegance.

As the sites launch in the next few weeks I will post them up.

Unpackit Campaign Recieves Over 8700 Votes

admin — Wed, 04 May 2011 02:17:28 +0000

The Unpackit 2011 Packaging Awards voting is over and the dust is beginning to settle. Between the website (see here) and the Road Show over 8700 votes were processed and we had excellent feedback on the ease of use of the voting page. Loving that Jquery :-)

New WordPress Theme… From Cardboard

admin — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 03:39:15 +0000

It’s not quite finished it still needs a bit of tidying up around the edges and the site won’t be launched till the end of the month – but a preview can be found here unpackit.org.nz.

This theme was a lot of fun to build, it started by digging into the recycled paper bin at Wastebusters and then taking photos of the different textures. I had access to some great photos from Simon Williams which really make it spark up.

Based on the Twenty Ten them it has all the usual WordPress features, and should evolve nicely as the Wastebusters Media team gets their keyboards into it :-)

New Wanaka Wastebusters Site Launched

admin — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 21:40:25 +0000

I have been working away the last few weeks finalizing a new site for Wanaka Wastebusters. It is built on WordPress and has a custom theme (theme design by Simon, coding by Gwilym) with a number of custom functions to create some intelligent menu highlighting and widgets.

The site is a major step forward from the old one and we’ll be developing it more over the next few months as the crew in the office gets to know WordPress a bit better and the content starts to flow.

The site is also hosted on the superfast Netmechanics server.

Welcome www.fluidphoto.com

admin — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 03:10:09 +0000

Welcome to Ruth, and her website www.fluidphoto.com. Ruth is another of those insanely talented people who you see around Wanaka, and her website is now hosted on our smoking fast NZ server.