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hedrovememad.com

He Drove Me Mad is an online community support group for people who have been traumatised by domestic violence. It features a forum, events calendar and news section. As such, it requires strict security rules and multiple user roles. Drupal provides the open source framework. On this project, ABD worked to a provided graphic design.

juliedawson.com

Luxury handbag designer Julie Dawson needed a website to reflect the elegance and sophistication of her products. A stylish, clear and simple design displays the handbags to their best. The panoramic style looks great on modern wide-screen monitors. An image zoom facility allows close up viewing of the furs and bags. Drupal provides the opensource content management system and framework for this site.

menzmedical.com

MenzMedical centre now have a dashing website that both advertises their clinical services and sells a range of male specific products through an online store. Joomla! provides the content management system.

heathcote.co.nz

Heathcote Cricket Club needed a new website. The Open Source Joomla! system provided a framework to organise the site content much more coherently into pages for specific teams. All content items can now receive comments. Batting and bowling honours are now in a searchable database and there is a Blog "View From the Boundary" containing the latest articles on cricket, life and everything. A fresh and clean design makes this cricket club's website stand out.

forster-heighes.org.uk

British site-specific, performance and installation artists Ewan Forster & Christopher Heighes needed a website makeover.

Their new site looks great and has a full content management system, allowing them to completely control the content of their site and keep it up to date.

watermarkprint.com

A beautiful design by Anita Liu of Strategy. Watermark is a Christchurch based printworkshop working with top, contemporary artists to produce original, limited edition intaglio prints. The site features a sleek AJAX shopping cart.

scapebiennial.org.nz

For the past two years, ABD has been creating the back end to the Scape Biennial websites.

The 2008 website features ajax enhanced google mapping of artist sites and a transactional online store to sell merchandise from the biennial.

artbash.co.nzArtbash is a multi-user online arts community, featuring forums, an events calendar and online store where members can exhibit and sell art. Artbash uses a mixture of Classic ASP and VB.NET and a MS SQL Server database. A notable AJAX feature is a Search Suggest function developed from Google's.