The key to a great government website: accessibility, appropriate tone and manner and speedy downloads. Oh, and lots of sex appeal.

Energywise

The information on the site is very comprehensive, but wilst the concepts around energy can be pretty technical - the site has been designed to be warm and invited and user friendly. It clarifies where our energy is going, and offers up alternatives that are tailored to individual needs.

EECA

We loved working with The Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority! We taught them about restructuring their web architecture and in turn we learnt about saving energy. Their website needed to be more accessible, so along with clearer navigation we created a fresh new illustrative style which will now be applied to the rest for the EECA family of sites.

Radio New Zealand

Legibility, Architecture and Accessibility. Alto delivers an ambitious project working within some tight constraints. This site adheres to strict e-government compliance without sacrificing the design integrity or compromising user-experience. It is communicating to an intelligent, media savvy audience.

WorkSite

WorkSite is a great example of creating a task-oriented portal using tabulated views, so that all of the content is wrapped around the users needs.

EMPROVE

Another lovely website for EECA. This member of the EECA family of websites deals with energy savings for businesses. The Architecure was developed to enable businesses to clearly identify their needs with a minimum of fossicking. The result? A clear, optimistic website which gets you where you need to go quickly.

in-transit

Who said that a portal had to be stuffed to the brim with content? Who said that it had to be dry and utilitarian? With this project we were working with the toughest audience of all; youth. We had to strike a balance between presenting content in a way that had big impact and appeal without condescending.

The online brand took a brave departure for a government website - using 3D character illustrations to help convey some of the messages around skills and work. The Characters reinforce the values of the printed brand or mark, bursting with life and vibrancy. The result was strong and vibrant online identity which was perfectly pitched at its youth audience.

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Courts of New Zealand

This site enables users to find out about the roles and functions of our Higher Courts, and demystifies the role of the judiciary. It services the public, as well as providing special resources for the media, lawyers and students.

Biosecurity

We did an 'Extreme Makeover' of the website last year to incorporate Biosecurity's new branding. This bought us time to rework the architecture and determine the communication strategy for the new website. The newly designed website will go live at the end of the year.

Governor-General of New Zealand

We won the a prestigious Netguide Award for our work in developing this website. It was developed to appeal to all New Zealanders. This is reflected in the design, the language and the content. It conveys a sense of Authority, and reflects the status of the office of the Governor General, as well as being friendly and inviting.

Worksite

After re-working their brand, Alto designed the Worksite portal for skills and work. This included a hefty information architecture component. Our approach was to split the content on this site four ways, to reflect the four distinct ways that the users would want to access the content that worksite covers; people are either looking for skills, looking for work, needing help at work, or looking for staff. We then shaped the content around these intentions, allowing people to find relevant information based on their location within the site.

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The Beatgirls

The Beatgirls who enjoys a huge fan-base that includes Prince Charles and Muhammad Ali. From Aspen and the Olympics to the Outback and corporate launches; from the Andrews Sisters to ABBA, from the 1960s Girl bands to Disco and Kylie, the Beatgirls get any room on its feet. The beat goes on...

Brackets W

A fantastical online virtual museum of women’s military memorabilia. View the feature.

Telecom Prospect 04

We had the pleasure of working with the City Gallery over two furiously energetic months to design and build the on-line exhibition catalogue.

Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra

This site is interesting - showing how a single webpage designed and built in 2 hours, with NO BUDGET can do a whole lot of work. It has a gig guide, information about 'other stuff' and is oozing with humour and personality.

Creative New Zealand

Alto did an Extreme Makeover on the Creative New Zealand website, making a little bit of budget go a loooong way

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Fiona Pardington

Fiona was having a trip to Paris for some major schmoozing with top museums and galleries and she urgently needed to post 'something' online from her recent bodies of work. This was up and live by the end of the day!

Tower NZ Youth Choir

Website - was a 2004 finalist in the Community not for Profit section of the TUANZ awards

Enzology

Website and Branding of this Iconic group's Music Feature for Radio New Zealand