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Timebased Finalists in the Open-Source Awards


Timebased designed and developed website NZHistory.net nz has been named a finalist in the inaugural New Zealand Open Source Awards.
NZHistory.net.nz has been short-listed for the special category: Open Source for Creativity. The winners will be announced at an awards evening on October 17th.

NZHistory.net.nz relaunched


Timebased has relaunched NZHistory.net.nz in time for Waitangi Day. A complete overhaul of the website sees the site move from a Joomla CMS to a Drupal CMS as well as unveiling new branding and a updated look and feel.
Using open source applications and enhanced with features such as Google maps, NZhistory.net.nz provides a thoroughly […]


NZLive.com Wins Information Award


NZLive.com has been announced winner of the information category at the 2006 TUANZ Business Internet Awards. NZLive.com beat out stiff competition from the other category finalists including another impressive Ministry for Culture and Heritage website, Te Ara.
NZlive.com was praised for its interface, its application of web 2.0 technologies and its extensively syndicated content. The information […]

Major Timebased Management Project Launches - NZLive.com


For the past year Timebased has been deeply involved with the development of New Zealand’s cultural portal - a major web project for both the government and the country, which has been developed under the stewardship of the Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Timebased was contracted for the project management of the phase 1 development […]


Selecting a good brand name for a website


Branding a website has its own set of peculiarities but the main one is that your brand will likely be your domain name. It sounds pretty straightforward but most English, single or double word domain names are already in use or unavailable at reasonable prices, so finding a good brand for a new online product […]

Basic Tips for Writing Email Newsletters


Email newsletters aren’t necessarily complicated to put together but they are very different from the documents and press releases that traditionally come from an organisation’s communications department. Here at Timebased we regularly receive email newsletters from many interesting organisations but most of these emails are inevitably abandoned and trashed before they are ever read through […]