Category Archives: Design

A little goes a long way – An Amway solution that impressed

Here at Gruden it’s not all about making the biggest and best sites and applications from the ground up. It’s the little things we can do to existing  systems that can make all the difference… Amway approached us to create an offline order capturing system in anticipation of a 4 day Oracle outage. As Amway [...]

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GUZMAN Y GOMEZ, Mexican Taqueria

Guzman y Gomez

Background GUZMAN Y GOMEZ (GYG) is a fast growing brand of Mexican food outlets that focuses on its core values of “Passion, Remarkable and Authentic”. Starting in 2006 from humble beginnings in Newtown, NSW, by the time they came to Gruden they had grown to 8 stores and were urgently in need of a major website upgrade. The [...]

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Just What Is The Mobile Web?

Gruden website on MacBook, iPad, iPhone

Introduction With the dominance of the iPhone, the rapid rise of the iPad, and the advent of a wealth of devices based on Google’s Android or Windows Phone 7, the web is moving more than ever into the spaces beyond the desktop. While the mobile web has long been considered separate from the “desktop” web, [...]

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Gruden Free Breakfast Event – “Lost In Translation” RSVP – NOW !!

Gruden would like to invite you to a free breakfast with business in mind! When: 16/11/10    Time: 7.45am – 9.15am Where: City Hotel – Kent St, Sydney   RSVP: By 12/11/10 All too often when implementing online strategies, customer experience and business needs get “Lost In Translation” Over the last 10 years organisations have invested [...]

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On practising what you preach

Cross post from my blog I was having a water cooler conversation that turned into a debate with someone at work yesterday. We were talking about approaches to styling WordPress blogs using themes. I’ll take this opportunity to digress before diving into the detail and tell you about a particular ethos we have at Gruden. [...]

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PDF Form Design

As a digital agency, we design and build user interfaces. And the essence of this is about communication, understanding user and business needs, and then designing the most effective and engaging interfaces, which can be presented in a number of formats from HTML to iPhone. But we should not overlook another user interface on most [...]

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Breast Cancer Month: Support the cause

Show your support for breast cancer survivors, and the ongoing research to stamp out the disease. Twibbon.com have launched a virtual pink ribbon which can be added to your Twitter profile picture to show your support during the month of October. Click here to get a ribbon displayed on your Twitter profile. You can check mine [...]

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Gruden launches SkillsDMC on Sitecore CMS Platform

SkillsDMC is a not-for-profit organisation that facilitates education and training across the Resource and Infrastructure sectors. The SkillsDMC website provides tools, research and competency-based training resources to assist skills-short mining and infrastructure enterprises. The underlying foundation of this resource is a scalable, flexible and easily updatable content management system, Sitecore CMS. Sitecore CMS allowed Gruden to build [...]

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Gruden site now iPhone-friendly

Being Mobile Friendly We recently commenced an effort to make the Gruden website more mobile-friendly. With the overabundance of iPhones in our office, that provided an easy start, and an easy platform to test with. We’ve always been believers in the separation of presentation and content. We code our HTML to best practices, with a [...]

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