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Dive White Island
Deep sea diving charter operator Sportsworld Whakatane offers a unique diving experience to visitors to the South Pacific: the opportunity to scuba dive an active volcano! Dive White Island is an award winning visitor attraction that is totally unique, so how do we get this important message to a global audience of divers, instructors and tourists?
The answer is a coordinated website marketing programme that includes a Search Engine friendly website, a targeted Google Adwords campaign, and paid-for links from popular web directories like www.yellowpages.co.nz.
We took the original Dive White website and made a few simple modifications to make it easier for both search engines and visitors to navigate the site, installing the Klixo Content Management System to make the site easier to keep up to date. We also installed enquiry and comments forms using our Form-to-mail service which has the added advantage of keeping a log of enquiries for 31 days.
Modifications to the site were easy and cost effective thanks to a great original web design by Dave Wilkinson at Web Frenzy. Richard at Klixo performed the web development and programming, and Daniel at Klixo optimised the site for Search Engines and optimised the Google Adwords campaign.
Whales and Dolphin Watch New Zealand
what's wrong with whales and dolphins?
When http://www.whaleanddolphinwatch.co.nz was experiencing poor results in popular search engines, we knew that something was not quite right.
- by Daniel Larsen
As soon as I met Doug from Whales & Dolphin Watch New Zealand Ltd I knew that we were on to a winner - Doug has a great tourism product, he makes peoples' dreams come true. Who hasn't dreamed of swimming with Dolphins, I mean, really?
And despite having a beautifully designed web site that was doing everything right from a Search Engine Optimisation standpoint, Doug's web site was not getting a fair ranking in Google. The search phrase "swim with dolphins in new zealand" was ranking www.whaleanddolphinwatch.co.nz at a miserable 191 out of 103,000.
So we set to work trying to eliminate the possible problems with a new web server, domain name, installed a content management system, added a secure booking form and cleaned up the meta-tags.
Now, less than a month later, Doug's site ranks 13th out of 103,000 (and climbing)!
As Doug adds links from partner web sites we can expect that ranking to improve to a lucrative top 10 (front page) ranking in Google.
Klixo have been working with Ngati Umutahi in Matata to provide a portal for Nga Iwi o Ngati Umutahi. The website features a private area where members can view exclusive news, photos and information. The frontpage of the website features an emotive black & white slideshow with images from on the Marae; the website has been themed to convey the strong emotional connection that iwi share with their marae, and to present the face of Ngati Umutahi.
Registration is required to access the majority of the content on the site and registration data wil be used to help complete important whakapapa data for Ngati Umutahi.
www.umutahi.iwi.nz was designed by Erika Jolley at Emagination (NZ) Ltd for The Ngati Umutahi Marae Trustees, represented by Anthony Olsen. Web development and optimisation was completed by Richard Parfitt at Klixo with additional programming and project management by Daniel Larsen.
Kapiti based singer/songwriter Hinemoana Baker is an artist of many talents. Not only has she just released her debut full length album "Puawai", at the same time she has released a beautiful book of poetry titled "Matuhi | Needle".
Hinemoana had simple requirements for her website:
- she wanted to be able to design her own website
- she wanted to be able to update her own website
- she wanted the website to sell her CD and book for her
- she wanted it ready in time for her album and book launch in late October, 2004
design process
The problem with some website content management systems is that the templates that they provide do not offer complete flexibility for designers. This can be especially frustrating for artists, who place a high priority on design. Klixo understand this and that's why we use XSL stylesheets to define style in a website: If you can design it in HTML, you can design in in XSL.
The concept and initial design for the site was provided by Hinemoana herself as MS Word documents (!) with photos and artwork from Andrew Dalziel and Georgie Kerby. Daniel Larsen from Klixo Ltd provided the final design and programming.
klixo content management
Because www.hinemoana.co.nz is powered by Klixo, Hinemoana can update her website herself with news, tour dates, reviews and photos whenever she likes.
this website works for its owner
www.hinemoana.co.nz features a Real Player powered "listen" feature that allows visitors to the website to listen to Hinemoana's entire album as they surf. Clicking on the album cover takes a user to an e-commerce store front developed by Klixo that allows visitors to purchase the album and book online. Klixo process and complete the order on behalf of hinemoana.co.nz.
clever design = quick turnaround = realistic costs
Hinemaoana Baker had an immovable deadline date for her website to go live and Klixo was able to meet that deadline on time and on budget thanks to a smarter approach to design and the power of the Klixo content management system.
If you would like to learn more about the technology and processes that led to another successful website project, then please contact us. We would love to show you how easy websites can be.
www.eatout.co.nz - how do you manage a 6,000 document website without breaking the bank?
Restarant Guide "Eatout" has just launched their new website www.eatout.co.nz. The website was designed by Sandra Tanner at Eatout and developed by Daniel Larsen at Klixo Ltd. The site employs Klixo's content management system, form-to-mail and stats engines as well as web hosting. Klixo's extensible technology will allow eatout.co.nz's business and website to expand rapidly as customer listings increase without greatly increasing Eatout's website maintenance or infrastructure costs.
Radio 1XX in Whakatane needed an easier way to update their website so they chose the Klixo Content Management System for the job. The old 1XX website has had a bit of a facelift and the new site was launched on 1XX's 33rd birthday!
1XX's staff are now able to update the website themselves everyday, keeping the content fresh. The newsroom are even updating the regional news headlines every day, making www.1xx.co.nz the only source of Eastern Bay of Plenty news on the web!
whakatane.info
Whakatane's Business Directory Gets The Klixo Treatment
Bay of Plenty business directory whakatane.info needed content management in a hurry. Their customer base was growing rapidly and the job of managing all of the content for their website was becoming unwieldy.
In partnership with Klixo, whakatane.info converted their entire website and client list to a Klixo website in a matter of weeks. Part of this strategy involved providing business manager Chris Arundale with XSL development training so that he could develop parts of the website himself.
Daniel from Klixo ran the half-day, one-on-one training session at whakatane.info's premises and Chris Arundale says the training material was easy to understand and met his needs.
"I can now create and edit stylesheets for use with the Klixo content management system - saving us hundreds of dollars in development fees and creating many more XSL development opportunities for whakatane.info."
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