Cape Etc Magazine recently approached us with a commonplace problem: take an existing site, simplify it and make it easy to manage. Apart from enabling full content-management for their site, we took the opportunity to freshen up the design, enhance the legibility and bring their web presence more in-line with their magazine. The result is a clean, undemanding site setting the scene with strong branding and a design ethos that blends with its real world offering, hooked up to an easy-as-pie content management app.
The ultimate in Cape arts, culture and entertainment
October 8th, 2007
A photo moment
July 22nd, 2007
Beauty Pictures is a boutique site featuring dramatic pictures of a Cape Town-based beauty photographer Helena Grier. Apart from the striking content, we think the most interesting aspect of the site is the way one navigates to an image. On the primary “beauty story” page the user sees all the fashion stories, grouped together 4x2 via small 150x150 thumbnails. This page is ‘randomised’ - if you refresh a new batch of thumbnails is presented, keeping the content fresh and engaging.
Did you mean: little ‘black’ dress
July 11th, 2007
We just finished another website for a slightly different fashion business aptly named Little Blank Dress. Once the client decided on a name for their new venture we assisted in setting up a site for them: domain registration coupled with an initial landing page and contact information.
A different design tool
July 6th, 2007
We just finished the production of a series of sites for local design studio and gallery Whatiftheworld. From the onset the brief was to create something analog, no animation, no flash: just a simple, straightforward site that takes the back seat to the work of artists and designers it promotes.
How to build the ideal bed and breakfast website
January 26th, 2007
A couple of months ago we published one of the first tank sites, a small, efficient website catered towards a bed and breakfast in Montagu.
The perfect web publishing tool for estate agents
January 21st, 2007
I sold my flat a couple of years ago through a mutual friend, and have recently connected with him again as I wanted him to see what Tank could do for him and his real estate business. Locally, many estate agents are caught in that trap of only publishing their listings, and not going any further than that.
It’s all about jump-starting…
January 12th, 2007
We’ve just finished up another portfolio piece, this time for a slightly different kettle of fish: a clubbing website called e-vent. It’s been my ‘contribution’ to the Cape Town (clubbing) scene, and has had it’s fair share of re-designs over the years. The site has been around since 1999 and has evolved into a small community commenting about the local scene, or lack thereof. I also post flyers on a semi-regular basis. I’d go as far to say it was a blog before that phrase was even coined.
Focussing on the real deal
November 16th, 2006
One of the first sites we built using tank is Aasvoëlkrans. It is a bed and breakfast in Montagu run by Alan’s mom. It is quite a simple site, so we built it in record time.