Hello.

My name is Dan Gray and I design and build websites and online apps.
If you're in the market for a new website, would like to update a design,
need better results from your current site, or are just starting out online
please get in touch. Sorry, but I am no longer taking on new clients.

Dan Gray (Melbourne, AUS)
Tel. 0438 833 458
dan@dangray.com.au

Welcome to Dan Gray's online portfolio

Portfolio

Pittella Imports

Architectural fittings importer Pittella needed their large range of high-end products to be accessible online. After a complete database overhaul, the site and content manager were redesigned from the ground up. Utilising some clever jQuery interaction and a strong back end (built on the popular CodeIgnitor framework) the site allows quick browsing and searching, and the best is yet to come...

  • Site design & development
  • jQuery integration
  • Manager development
  • CodeIgnitor framework
  • Launch site

anti-aging

An information and contact site for one of Melbourne's leading non-surgical cosmetic groups, this site makes use of the highly flexible jQuery library to add useful interaction to a detailed site. The design focuses on space and clarity to help users navigate the wealth of information made available, and encourages contact or communication.

RXConnect

A new professional services company, RXConnect needed a clean, clear site that allowed potential clients to understand their unique business. The site design takes a cue from the strong red logo developed by Gigi&Lulu, and an integrated Content Management System allows RXConnect to manage their own content into the futurre.

  • Site design & development
  • Content creation
  • CMS integration
  • Launch site

A Feature Coating

Finishing experts A Feature Coating contacted Dan to design and build a new website featuring some of their amazing high-end finishing work. The resulting site includes industry-specific detail alongside beautiful finished installations.

Poppies Weddings

A showcase e-commerce site, this design develops the themes created for the original Poppies for Grace site and ties in dynamic ordering and a custom-built sample pack builder.

  • Site design & development
  • Sample pack application with payment
  • Integrated online ordering
  • Launch site

 

Case Management Action Group

Bringing case managers together across a wide geographical area, the CMAG website serves as a news portal, discuission panel and resource library. The site is designed to be friendly and simple to use, bringing design and accessibility together to serve the community.

  • Site design & development
  • CMS integration & customisation
  • www.cmag.org.au

Poppies for Grace

Poppies For Grace needed to show off their popular creations online. Starting from scratch, Dan worked with them to develop a unique style and structure to best show off their product range. The finished site highlights their beautiful illustrations and textures while allowing people to purchase from their stunning catalogue of wares. With sales through the website soaring the future looks bright for this small Melbourne design business. 

Neoteros Consulting

A high value corporate sales website, this site for Neoteros Consulting needed to deliver a high impact sales message alongside course scheduling and bookings. The final design brings a strong consistency and simple sales flow together.

  • Site design & development
  • CMS & payment integration
  • Custom booking application

Skunkscape

Software startup Skunkscape needed a site to support their first foray into the iPhone development market. Featuring you-tube demo videos, faq's and a simple contact form this site provided the platform for Skunkscape's iTaekwondo application sales to take off.

Eighty Days

Taking inspiration from this company's calm, modern design style, the identity and website I designed for Eighty Days showcases the texture and color of the unique fabrics they source from around the world, while providing a setting to present important company infomation.

  • Logo design
  • Print collateral design
  • Site design & development
  • JQuery integration
  • Launch site

Men In Tights

The central concept comes form the history of bicycle racing, so strongly tied to the histroy of the newspaper. The men-in-tights.com team liked the idea of a modern newspaper, highlighting the feats of modern cyclists. The finished site is a collection of cycling references old and new and has lifted daily traffic 3-fold. 

Benambra Queenscliff

The simple navigation and detailed finishes of this site for Boutique B&B Benambra Queesncliff gives the user a taste of the relaxation that awaits. Linked to a local online booking service, the site offers guests all the information they need to book online or pick up the phone, and the results have been stunning.

  • Site design & development
  • JQuery integration
  • Launch site

 

 

Alexandra Malkin Design

Garden and Interior designer Alexandra Malkin needed a website to showcase her business to potential clients. The resulting site features photographs and plans from her extensive portfolio alongside information and advice on everything from process to maintenance. The site has a web-based content management system making updates and edits a breeze.

Clients

I have been priveliged to work for and with a wide range of organisations, including:

 

  • "It was critical for our website to be creative, reflective of our brand and easy for our customers to navigate. Dan completely understood our vision - it is wonderful!" Sara Dickins, Poppies for Grace
  • "We can attribute the amazing growth of our business directly to our website. We are constantly told by our guests how interesting our place looks and it is easy to use." Anne Hillis, Benambra Queenscliff
  • "Dan helped us find and install the right software, trained us how to use it, used the content we had, improved the navigation, added some really useful tools and made it all look good. Working with Dan has been great - he has lots of ideas, is creative, responsive and a lot of fun." David Carlos, Manager Staff Learning & Development, Melbourne Citymission
  • "Dan’s expertise lay in his ability to take our thoughts and ideas and turn them into the online presence we were looking for. His skill, professionalism and creative ideas resulted in a website that is clean, simple, fresh and easy to use." Keryn, Eighty Days
  • "Dan is a magician! He took all our design ideas and breathed life into them. We had our expectations of the site and Dan far exceeded them. He created a site that I, along with my clients, love." Pru Trundle, Little Bird Photography

About

Dan is a qualified designer with 10 years of industry experience. From creating company branding to designing and developing complex websites and online applications, Dan has worked alongside talented creatives and for organisations large and small. In a crowded communications environment, design can deliver an important point of difference.

PAST
Graduating from Swinburne Design School I started my career in graphic design before being enticed to the wide world of the web. Soon I was learning server-side programming and developing ever-more interactive sites and applications, including a large multi-level intranet and a new online help-desk ticketing application.

PRESENT
Backed with strong design skills and up-to-date programming and integration knowledge I now have a broad group of clients with diverse needs. I work hard to create high quality websites and applications that showcase my client's business and build their brand making the most of what the web has to offer.

FUTURE
I'm always on the lookout for exciting projects to work on, so if you're in the market for a new website or need some work done on an existing design or application please get in touch.

  • COMPETENCIES
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • PHP
  • SQL
  • JQuery
  • Flash/Actionscript
  • Photoshop
  • Illustrator
  • InDesign

Contact

Please feel free to get in touch using the details provided.

 

Tel. 0438 833 458
dan@dangray.com.au

 

 

 

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