Lumenaus

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Anthony Hortin
(Updated: March 20, 2024)

Lumenaus Solar & Battery Systems is a family owned specialist in home & commercial solar panel & battery storage installation. They’re an accredited Clean Energy Council (CEC) Retailer delivering high quality solar installations throughout Victoria, as well as Nationwide. Lumenaus have a vast range of clients from Engineering firms, Retirement Villages, Commercial Builders, Schools & Colleges through to manufacturing and general factory-based businesses.

Lumenaus needed a website that functioned as a powerful marketing tool, positioning them as an expert in their field, and allowing them to compete with larger providers and installers. A smart, good looking website was key for attracting customers with their ongoing Google Adwords campaigns. The website needed to be clean, modern, easy for visitors to navigate, and also easy to update and manage, along with adhering to their existing branding and providing essential SEO features.

I bought the site to life by creating a custom responsive WordPress theme. With an emphasis on user-friendliness, the site needed to load super-fast, and look great across the range of modern platforms including desktops, smartphones and tablet devices. An easy to use, custom designed quote request tool was also built to help attract potential customers.

ProPortion Foods

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Anthony Hortin

ProPortion Foods are the leading suppliers of nutrient-dense foods to hospitals and care homes across Australia. Their expertise has been honed over many years, based upon extensive conversations with chefs, dietetics specialists and healthcare professionals, to learn how they can help support world best practice in patient and resident nutrition. ProPortion Foods are always striving to understand what makes their range more appealing and easier for people to make part of their daily lives.

ProPortion Foods needed a website that functioned not only as a powerful marketing tool that positions them as an expert in their field, but one that also aligns with their branding as well as providing essential SEO benefits. The website needed to be clean, modern, easy for visitors to navigate, and also easy to update and manage. The new site also needed a complex search and filter tool so that visitors could search their range of products, taking into account various allergens and nutrition requirements.

The new ProPortion Foods website was designed by the talented Fiona Brand from Brand By Name. I was tasked with bringing the new site to life by creating a custom responsive WordPress theme, along with a customisations plugin. With an emphasis on user-friendliness, the site needed to load super-fast, and look great across the range of modern platforms like desktops, smartphones and tablet devices.

St. Edmunds Basketball Club

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Anthony Hortin

The St. Edmunds Basketball Club (SEBC) commonly referred to as ‘The Saints’, is a large domestic basketball club located in Chirnside Park, 35kms east of Melbourne, at the base of the Dandenong Ranges. The club was formed and commenced competition in 1973 and has been a member of the Kilsyth & Mountain District Basketball Association (K&MDBA) since then.

The SEBC website was due for a refresh and needed to be moved from their existing hosted platform. The new site design needed to adhere to the existing ‘Saints’ branding, whilst also being easy to navigate for both younger and older visitors alike. Built on a custom WordPress theme, the new site is significantly faster than the previous site, and incorporates a large number of forms that are easier to use, for each of the clubs activities, such as Training Programs, Club Membership, Coaching applications, and general contact forms.

Harts Coffee Cart

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Anthony Hortin

Harts Coffee Cart is a mobile coffee cart businesses that caters for all sorts of events such as work functions, corporate events, private parties and weddings. Operated by Jason Hart and his wife, Karine, Harts Coffee Cart have been operating in and around Melbourne since 2010. As a trained barista with over 10 years of experience, Jason also offers specialised coffee training for those looking at working in the hospitality industry.

The original Harts Coffee Cart website was experiencing some issues caused by their outdated theme and plugins. A new WordPress theme was developed along with an overhaul of all the site plugins, providing a much needed stability to the site. The new theme also provided the opportunity to give the site design a whole new refresh. Their basic eCommerce functionality was also updated to a powerful WooCommerce site. This provided Jason with a significantly better experience for adding and editing their range of products, along with a better front-end customer experience and more functionality with managing the store in the back-end.

Red Bottle

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Anthony Hortin
(Updated: January 26, 2022)

Red Bottle are a collection of independent bottle-shops in the Sydney CBD and inner city, selling your favourite beers, wines and spirits from around the world. In operation for over 10 years, Red Bottle pride themselves on selection, competitive pricing and friendly knowledgeable service.

Red Bottle’s old website was looking very dated, and with no content management system running behind-the-scenes, updating the site was becoming more and more difficult as the company, and their product range, grew.

Looking to improve their online appearance and offer their customers more functionality, Red Bottle approached myself to design and build them a brand new website. Using WordPress as their Content Management System (CMS), I built a custom WordPress theme with full eCommerce functionality using WooCommerce, including the ability for multiple (corporate/retail) product prices. As well as being significantly easier to manage, the new Red Bottle site is extremely fast and looks great across desktops, smartphones and tablet devices. With the ability to browse and order online, customers now have a significantly better experience when using the Red Bottle site.