First Strike can design anything from a standard text and imagery website to a shopping cart driven website via the power of the Macromedia suite of design software.

Often the power of a website is it's speed and it's ability to list high in relevance on the top 10 search engines without using trickery and search engine unfriendly methods. A well designed site with a balance between images and text will still be effective for the large number of surfers who are stuck on dial-up connections where a bandwidth hungry high end site will be rejected due to the time taken to see absolutely none of the finery. Quite often potential clients will just skip the graphics (given the opportunity) or quit before they are fully loaded.

We have been researching the less glamourous techniques of effective search engine listing and image optimisation for many years. We can also advise you on utilising your website effectively via authorised mailing lists and other techniques which will turn a one-shot customer into a repeat buyer.

Here are some samples of web sites designed by First Strike, where we provided redesigns or where we set up the initial site and assisted our clients to continue the design process (note: additional windows will be opened to showcase each site):-

Hunter Organic Growers Society
The base design came from a member of the society with implementation by First Strike. Perfectly suited to the organisation with a clever and bright design.

Hunter Country Lodge and Shakey Tables Restaurant
After the initial site design by First Strike, many new elements have been introduced by the clients with vibrant results!

Colonial Ridge Resort
Complete redesign of a rather unfunctional original. A resort with expansive ocean views and the need for imagery on the site to match. Also an example of how you can save money and time sending out brochures by using your website instead.

Super Stampers
Designed for my Mum and Dad. Part fun, part professional with a simple ordering form which uses Javascript to save the customer some time.

Backed by Nature
A shopping cart based site for selling backing papers for photographic memory albums and a new range of inspiting printed canvas pictures.

Climax Suspension
After the initial design ran for a couple of years Climax asked for a much brighter and striking site. The site is mostly redesigned now with a third redesign under way to add the complete stock database with advanced search features.

Port Stephens Winery
A complete redesign to make the whole site cleaner and to add functionality to the order form in calculating the totals, case discount and delivery.