A3 Revolution Web Design

Launching Green Cloud Hosting in Australia

Steve Truman — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 10:46:08 +0000

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Australian Green Cloud Hosting

This week marks another milestone in our business with the build and launch our our new A3 Green Hosting Cloud right here in Australia. To date we have hosted all of our clients sites on an A3 Cloud located in the USA.

This week we were able to completed the build, testing and lunch of our own A3 Australian Green Cloud and have already migrated some clients sites to the new Australian Green cloud.

The benefits to those Australian based clients migrating their sites from our USA Cloud to our Australian based Green Cloud are:

1. Green Cloud Hosting is at the cutting edge of IT’s contribution to fighting Climate Change – Clients who migrate their sites can show the Green Cloud Hosting emblem on their sites.

2. The websites that we have migrated to our Australian Green Cloud Hosting are loading 2 to 3 times faster for Australian users.

3. Local Search Engine Optimization is dramatically enhanced with Google, Bing and Yahoo as the Country of Origin of the sites IP address is Australia and not the USA.

“Working towards a sustainable
future with green cloud hosting”

Our new cloud is built on the same Cloud infrastructure as these iconic Australian organizations – Bob Jane, Forty Winks, The McGrath Foundation, Pancake Manor, Horseland, Clark Rubber, MSD

Why Green Cloud Hosting ?

Less energy consumed. It takes far less natural resources and energy to run a handful of centralized data centers than running hundreds or thousands of individual networks that often do not use resources to their fullest. The A3 Green Cloud is built and configured using the CloudLinux operating system so that each site has its own virtual private server with allocated resources.

It is this Virtual Private Server environment that makes our Cloud one of the most energy efficient in the country and hence entitles those clients whose sites are hosted on our Cloud to show the Green Cloud emblem on their sites.

Other benefits of Cloud Hosting to the environment include.

Less physical space requirements. With centralized locations for public cloud computing, organizations no longer must dedicate large areas of physical space to house IT equipment. If every company reduced their required floor space by just 400 square feet, imagine the materials and associated energy savings for commercial construction.

Less IT hardware required. Cloud computing uses data banks and uses fewer servers, towers, monitors, and other hardware components to accomplish the same tasks. Once optimized, one centralized server does the work of three or four partially used servers.

Less IT hardware waste. Toxic chemicals, carcinogens and heavy metals are all part of the make up of a computer and the more efficient we are the less overall waste.

We will be updating this blog with a post about each client who has up migrate their site to our new Green Cloud Hosting here in Australia.

Product Catalog Design

Steve Truman — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:07:45 +0000

We were commission to produce a high quality, print ready, full colour Retail Product Catalog for Fieldquip Pty Ltd.

The project comprised the creation of:

1. Full Product Catalog Design.

2. Product Pages design and layout.

2. Front and back cover Designs.

3. Creation of two different Info Graphic displays for inside front and back covers.

4. Design a Generic Dealers Product Fax order form.

The finished Product Catalog Design was delivered to the client in a print ready format which they could give to their Printer. We liaised with the printer at the beginning of the project for their specifications. The Product Catalog was printed on glossy paper and is now an outstanding marketing tool for the business.

Toowoomba Valleys R.L.F.C

Steve Truman — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:52:49 +0000

Toowoomba Valleys R.L.F.C is Toowoomba’s oldest and most successful Rugby League club. Unbelievably the club did not have it’s own website. It now has, and it is fantastic.

In designing the site we looked at the NRL club sites and then set about creating a design and a site features that were every bit as good as those – if not better.

The 10 most powerful features are:

1. Toowoomba Valley’s custom design that reflects the clubs winning culture.

2. Feature Home page image slider that is easy for them to update.

3. Club and teams News pages.

4. Committee, Coaches pages with full profiles and contact details.

5. Club and team Sponsors banner ads.

6. Paid advertisers Banner ads

7. Multimedia rich site with video and photo Galleries.

8. Google Interactive locations and directions maps.

9. Full facebook and social media integration.

10. Powerful easy to use publishing platform.

Toowoomba Valleys prides itself on being the best in everything they do. Their new website strongly represents and reflects that culture to players, fans, supporters, volunteers, sponsors and the general public.

Arnage Warmblood Horse Stud

Steve Truman — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:59:49 +0000

This was an incredibly exciting project from the get go. Arnage is an exciting young stud who is making some big moves in the Warmblood stud world. Our brief with this site was:

1. Create a stand out design that is pure class.

2. Showcased their horses for sale, sires used and their mares.

3. Multimedia rich Horse displays with moving image galleries, text and video.

4. Create an interactive events calendar that owners can update themselves.

5. Create a Stud blog.

6. Create a site that the owners can easily keep update themselves.

7. Fully integrate the site with social media especially Facebook and Twitter.

8. Optimize the site for Search engines especially Google.

9. Optimize the site for viewing and using smart phones and iPads.

10. Teach the clients how to use all of this technology. This includes teaching the owners how it all works and how to use it to market their horses and stud online.

Click through and have a look at the site. The result is truly stunning. The clients now have an industry leading web presence with their new stud site.

Business Card Design

Steve Truman — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:37:38 +0000

Here you will find a showcase of business cards designs that we have done for clients and ourselves. Building a brand is all important for any business.

Presenting a consistent brand image is fundamental to building a brand. Building a brand is about all about recognition. Recognition is achieved by repetition. When you hand a prospect or a client a business card one of the main things you want them to do is visit your website to learn more about your offering.

In building a business brand it is absolutely essential that the look of your business business card design is consistent with your website. If it is not you are just diluting your brand.

A Christmas Affair

Steve Truman — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:29:25 +0000

The A Christmas Affair site was built for my favourite charity – Little Haven Palliative Care. This is the second site we have built for Little Haven. Starting out this was supposed to be an el-cheapo site with the client selecting a pre-built theme and we were just going to customize it for their needs. – yes right!

Like all of our projects we soon found that the client had a very specific look and features they wanted. We spent several days searching for a suitable theme. Nothing we could find met our clients needs so we ended up creating a new custom design that fitted perfectly with what the client wanted and built the whole site from scratch.

This was the inaugural A Christmas Affair event and the main purpose of the site was to help attract quality exhibitors and to showcase them and their arts and crafts. To do this we had to completely rework 2 of our WordPress plugins – A3 Exhibitors and our A3 Gallery plugin. The end result was very pleasing both for the client and ourselves.

The event was a great success with over 30 exhibitors participating and Little Haven raising over $13,000. The A Christmas Affair event will be run again in the lead up to Christmas 2012 and we are very happy to that we were able to contribute to what is a wonderful cause by doing what we do best.

FQ Colour Brochure Design

Steve Truman — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 06:09:59 +0000

Full colour brochure design. We work closely with the client throughout the design stage to produce the brochure design and content that they require.

When completed to the clients satisfaction we deliver the finished brochure to the client in a format that they can then give straight to a printer.

The process gives our clients complete control over the design process and the quality of the finished product.

FQ Full Colour Magazine ad

Steve Truman — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:27:13 +0000

Full page colour ad production for FieldQuip. We regularly produce full page colour magazine ads for FieldQuip.

We work with the client through the ad design process and when the ad is completed to their satisfaction we give it to them in a print ready format.

They are then able to send it to the magazine in the print ready format. This process gives our client complete control over the look and feel of their ad and plus the content. Because we have worked closely with FieldQuip with their website design we are very familiar with their brand, their products and their market. This allows us to produce ads that perfectly fit their market and bring results.

As you can see the result is outstanding. These eye catching full colour magazine ads are a stand-out and have produced strong sales results for FieldQuip.

Have a chat with us when your next planning a print media campaign. You’ll be very pleased you did.

Technology never stands still – what a year.

Steve Truman — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 13:27:12 +0000

It has been an incredibly busy 12 months building exciting new business websites and software applications for our ever expanding list of clients. Sadly keeping the A3 rev blog updated and our client showcase has been almost impossible. Feeling guilty about not not keeping the blog and readers up-to-date. Below the image of our new business card is a lot (not all) of what we’ve done by numbers over the last 48 weeks.

27 – Designed, built and deployed 27 Business Websites

12 – Designed and built 12 WordPress Plugins

6 – Designed and built 6 WP e-commerce Plugins

1 Built a site dedicated to selling our worlds best user reviews software WP User Reviews

Over the last 6 months we have sold WordPress and WPEC Plugins (software) into North America, Europe, England, Africa and Australia.

1 – Built our first Magento Theme

1 – Built and deployed a dedicated Hospitality Theme Sales and live demo site A3 Stay

3 – Built 3 Motel ready to launch themes, Fresh, Float and Glide

1 – Built a Restaurant ready to launch theme, Delicious

We now build and sell Motel and Restaurant Ready to launch Themes (websites) off our purpose built hospitality theme demo website A3 Stay.

Site Design and build best Practice

Over the past 48 months we have developed a site design, development and deploy best practice process that produces not only stunning looking Design but incredibly easy to use websites for both front end users and the site owners. The foundations of that process are.

A. Use WordPress as our Content Management System

B. Use Genesis as our theme framework

C. Design and build our Themes (sites) on the 960 grid system

D. When we can’t find a WordPress plugin that meets our clients specific requirement and our technical specifications – we build it.

E-commerce platforms

We use WP e-commerce for building great shopping cart solutions for our clients. We are currently mastering Magento and a Mac Lightspeed Webstore / WordPress integration for two separate clients in Sydney.

Specialized WordPress Hosting

Over the past 12 months we have worked hard implementing words best practice procedures in our A3 cloud hosting environment. This has not been without its hiccups and this is an ongoing program. Our goal is to deliver our clients 99.9% up-time for their business websites in a safe secure and fast hosting environment for just $22 per month.

24x7x365 Client Care Program

As part of our best practice drive we launched our Premium client care program where we offer 24x7x365 days a year client backup and support for just $27 per month. This includes priority 24×7 phone, email and skype support around the clock site security monitoring and automated full site backup and storage in a second Cloud. This gives our clients peace of mind that their valuable business data is always secure.

Email Hosting

The 3rd branch of our best practice hosting drive is offering Email hosting on a separate dedicated cloud email server. This means that if a clients site is ever down for any reason that their email always keeps working. We are now providing this service to those clients who want this extra layer of security for just $6 a month.

There is a lot more and will continue to be because Technology never stands still, its developing rapidly and our task is to keep our clients at the cutting edge without them having to even think about it. As you can see its been a full on 48 weeks.

Hamilton Hume Yass NSW

Steve Truman — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:00:20 +0000

The Hume Hamilton Motor Inn at Yass is southern NSW is a 39 unit 3 & 1/2 star Motor Inn. The owners have recently purchased and renovating. As part of that process they wanted to totally revamp their online offering.

They sent us their logo and we did the rest. We used Google to research the towns history and used that information to create a truly unique and relevant design. The owners immediately feel in love with the design and we set about building the Hamilton Hume Motor Inn theme.

The finished site includes all of the software that we have created for accommodation businesses including:

1. Feature Rooms Software that allows the user to see and do a virtual tour of each room type.

2. Menus software to show guests full menus and prices.

3. Guest Ratings and reviews software. Allows the owners to showcase their testimonials.

4. Simple back end work station allows the owners to update their site any time.

The end result is our clients now have the best looking and most technologically advanced on-line presence of any accommodation business in the Yass district. Check out our dedicated Hospitality theme site A3 Stay.