Rio Bravo Web Design Upper Hutt

Bristols specialises in modern car mechanical repairs, diagnostics and servicing but where Bristols is leagues ahead of other garages is that they also specialise in the maintenance and full restoration of vintage, veteran, classic and muscle cars.

Sue Nicholson is a gifted psychic medium who has been connecting with the spirit world since she was a child. Sue is clairaudient, clairsentient and clairvoyant (she hears, feels and sees spirits). Sue often takes on the persona of the spirit she is channelling and lets Spirit write using her hands. Sue also uses her hands to connect with the energy of a person or place. She appears on the TV2 show Sensing Murder and is a frequent guest on TVNZ's Good Morning.

We rebuilt her website and included many features, including a shopping cart, a newsletter and embedded video content.

MDCA is an accounting practice based in Lower Hutt but servicing clients across New Zealand. Their clients come in a range of sizes: large corporates, small businesses and one-man band contractors. We built their website after submitting several variations on a sheet of letterhead paper.

It is a clean, simple site that is all about what the best accountants can provide: clarity.

Plimmer Plumning is an important Wellington plumbing firm. Although they specialise in commercial plumbing and drainlaying, their business also includes solar heating and gas fitting.

Our design allows the visitor to learn straightaway about all four activities.

Cricketmaster is an online shop selling fine quality imported cricket products such as balls, bats and protective equipment at very competitive prices.

We designed and built the site and added a simple shopping cart that sends an email to seller and buyer, allowing them to decide on the terms of payment and delivery, much like the TradeMe system.

32 Gems Dental Care, a Lower Hutt dental practice will provide you with the highest quality cosmetic and comprehensive general dental care in a family-based, high technology practice. We designed them a site that is serious and businesslike while the gentle blue tones give the site a relaxed, caring look.

As an added feature, we added a customer feedback form with key questions regarding each patient's experience.

Lifesource is a Yoga, Health and Wellbeing centre based in Upper Hutt, created as a place for healing, teaching and empowering people to take responsibility for their own health and wellbeing.

We designed the site working backwards from a business card. And added a lot of useful features such as a newsletter, a contact form and an events calendar.

Smart ID Products offer their customers a range of items for their organisation’s identity needs. These include Lanyards, Retractable Keys and Card Holders, Luggage Loops, and a range of similar products.

We built them a site with a simple shopping cart and were responsible for cataloging their items in a database and all the product photography.

O'Dwyers Creek Vineyard is situated in the wine growing region of Rapaura, Marlborough. The vineyard grows the varieties MS Sauvignon Blanc and Chardonnay Clone 15. O'Dwyers Creek Vineyard had previously supplied grapes for Delegat's iconic "Oyster Bay" label, however, they are now producing a series of single estate wines that express the true nature of the "Golden Mile" in which they are situated.

The site we built for them allows visitors to buy cases of wine online.

Accountants on Victoria is an independent firm of Chartered Accountants situated in Alicetown, Lower Hutt, and working with clients throughout New Zealand. Their clients benefit from the range of services AOV offer - from tax returns to corporate finance. Their success has come from consistently providing dynamic and imaginative solutions to our clients. We designed a website that perfectly matched their new corporate branding.

Rick Mawby is a certified builder and the owner of RHR Construction, a building firm that works between Wellington and Raumati, offering customers a weathertight, 10 year guarantee on all his work. The website we built for him includes photo galleries of his work, a testimonials page and a contact form. 

Key Electrical contractors and electricians are an important company, servicing the greater Wellington area, and are available for domestic and commercial electrical work. Our website design is simple yet strong and attractive. In addition, we helped with the copywriting and took some of the photographs.

Rapid Copy are a small, friendly and highly motivated digital print company in Thorndon and their motto is "Time is of the Essence at Rapid Copy".

The site we developed for them captures some of the breadth and scope of their activity and we highlighted customers and services that one might not immediately associate with a digital print shop.

The Khmer New Zealand Trading Company is a consultancy firm with 41 years of experience specialising in speed and road safety enforcement.

Many of their products are used globally to ensure accuracy, integrity and maintain public confidence in traffic enforcement products.

Bong's Coffee 2 Go is a pioneering concept in SE Asia, selling European style coffee to tourists in Cambodia's most beautiful tourist destinations such as Angkor Wat and Phom Bankeng.

We also design databases, and membership directories are a natural extension of that. We have built the Wellington Employers' Chamber of Commerce directory, with over 700 listings.

Undergroundsound is a post production sound facility in downtown Wellington, and a major change of pace for us.  We produced a site that is subdued while remaining strong in terms of design, rounded off by embedded YouTube content and an elegant, Flash-driven navigation system which recalls the faders so typical of recoding equipment.

We redesigned the Wellington Kitchen and Bathroom Company's website, giving it an added touch of elegance. Customer testimonials display on every page, as well as animations of kitchens and bathrooms they have built across Wellington. 

A prominent law firm in Upper Hutt, we were pleased to have had the opportunity to present them with a design that spoke about the type of work they did and the people that they worked with.

The need to be able to communicate the right message to the local community was an important factor in the brief, along with selecting the right imagery.

Being one of NZ's most important legal firms in the field of historic abuse, they are also a small and friendly team.  Our design incorporated the tree, being an important part of their office environment. A tree's roots go deep into the soil (a symbol for community and the past) and it provides shelter and, in many cultures it is also a traditional meeting place.

We provided a web presence that was clean, crisp and informative for their clients and any potential clients.

Experience Upper Hutt is an Upper Hutt City Council-financed initiative that works with the CBD retailers to enable growth in their businesses.  Our design spoke directly about the CBD and we provided an area to promote the initiatives and all the businesses in Upper Hutt. An events calendar was created alongside a bespoke business search engine.

We provided ICCNZ with a dynamic, database driven website, where changes to the site are automatically propagated across all relevant pages, where the members' data can be used to provide important statistical and networking information and where a few simple clicks can generate targeted mailing lists for specific regions, countries and business sectors. 

The Haven is guest house situated at Waikanae Beach on New Zealand's sunny Kapiti Coast. They offer friendly B&B style accommodation as well as a self-contained apartment.

Our site design is simple, breezy and summery.

For Vista Del Sol, a luxury B&B on the Kapiti Coast, we created a site that is easy to maintain and, by its elegant and sunny design, reflects Vista Del Sol Estate perfectly.

Design features include a mechanism for approving user comments before publishing them online, a variety of pre-written templates which allow the site owners to assemble a page complete with photographs with a minimum of fuss and a degree of search engine optimisation (SEO), essential in the highly competitive holiday accommodation market.  We also contributed to the copywriting and incorporated GoogleMaps and ViaNet's buttons for online bookings.

SARTIE is a designer handbag label from Milan, Italy: their slogan is "intimate luxury" and their Italian language press release, announcing a new season's line inspired by the avantgarde artist Yves Klein's use of the colour blue, was lush and rich in allusion. And, in a way that's typical of SARTIE's exquisite sense of design, it managed to blend in a clear description of the new handbag line.

Our English translation preserved the vivid imagery of the original while adopting a "sparser" tone, more familiar to English readers.

We were engaged by Tim Thorpe to provide research on Television Funding in Europe - a sector that Sonja specialised in whilst working as a Trade & Marketing Consultant in Italy for NZTE.

In 2010 the Concourse at Westpac Stadium in Wellington was transformed into a vibrant corner of Italy for one day and was a celebration of the very best of the Italian way of life. La Bella Italia and Club Garibaldi organised the Italian Festival in New Zealand and Rio Bravo Consulting was proud to have designed and managed the festival's website.

NB: we no longer manage La Bella Italia's site.