Perfection is attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away...
Greg regards the role of the web designer to be primarily threefold:
Greg’s websites are characterised by:
Greg hand codes his websites using web standards and best practices to create clean code that is easy to maintain and ranks well in search engines.
As well as working on small website projects with tight budgets, Greg has worked as webmaster, designer, developer and consultant for several software companies in the international financial industry: Cameron Systems, Orc Software and CameronTec.
Design: Greg Dikmans | Coding & Hosting: Greg Dikmans
Greg is the artistic director of the Elysium Ensemble and this website is a labour of love designed to communicate information about the ensemble’s performances and recordings, as well as information about the music, history and performance practices of the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe.
Design: Mike Gaal (graphic designer) | Coding: Greg Dikmans
Greg worked with graphic designer Mike Gaal on the technical aspects of implementing this detailed design. Mike then produced the composites that Greg used to write the code to make it all happen.
Greg is a consultant to Camerontec, acting as webmaster and maintaining the main website as well as a company intranet and support portal.
Design: Felicity Spear & Greg Dikmans | Coding & Hosting: Greg Dikmans
Greg worked closely with the artist Felicity Spear to design and develop this website to showcase her work as a visual artist and curator.
Design: Greg Dikmans | Coding & Hosting: Greg Dikmans
The Dog Rocks Flora and Fauna Sanctuary wanted a simple website to raise its profile in the local community, communicate information about the local flora and fauna, highlight the work of the Batesford-Stonehaven-Fyansford Landcare Group and to complement other publicity activities.
Design: Greg Dikmans | Coding & Hosting: Greg Dikmans
Cathy Cameron is the principal dentist in a busy, friendly city practice in East Melbourne, Australia. Nearly all new patients come through word of mouth, so the website’s main function is to make Cathy and the practice easy to find online.
Because of the coding and content design, the website ranks in the top position in Google searches for Cathy Cameron, Cameron Dentist and even Cathy Dentist.
Design: Greg Dikmans | Coding: Greg Dikmans
The brief was to design a website using established corporate identities that, as well as being visually interesting, had an underlying architecture that would easily scale as this publishing company expanded its catalogue of books and music.
Design: Mike Gaal (graphic designer) | Coding: Greg Dikmans
Greg was given composites created by graphic designer Mike Gaal and wrote the code to implement this design with a somewhat unconventional functionality.
Greg worked closely with John Cameron, a programmer with over 20 years experience developing software for the financial industry, to provide a simple and clean code base that John could then maintain himself.
Design: Greg Dikmans | Coding: Greg Dikmans
The brief was to create a website using Dr Davies’ established corporate identity to inform general practitioners and the general public about the many conditions and treatments in Dr Davies’ area of specialisation. It was important that the information should be easy to find by people visiting the site and that it should rank well in Google searches.
Design: Greg Dikmans | Coding: Greg Dikmans
The Musicological Society of Australia website needed a redesign (see below). The underlying structure, information architecture and coding also needed to be reworked to comply with modern standards and to make the site easier to maintain in the future.
Greg worked with existing branding and content to produce a much more attractive, streamlined and useable website.
The MSA website before the redesign
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