http://www.timebased.com a website about timebased things Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:09:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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. http://www.timebased.com/blog/timebased-finalist-in-the-open-source-awards When the History Group from the Ministry for Culture and Heritage decided to upgrade the leading resource for New Zealand History online, Timebased oversaw and executed the total overhaul of the website - from the content management system to the branding. The result is a fresh and contemporary presentation ... http://www.timebased.com/work/nzhistorynetnz In 2005 an ambitious plan was hatched by the Ministry for Culture and Heritage to produce a "cultural portal" that would celebrate and promote the full breadth of New Zealand's culture. Teina Herzer from Timebased was contracted for the project management of this important project, taking it from consultation ... http://www.timebased.com/work/nzlivecom 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, ... http://www.timebased.com/blog/news/nzhistorynetnz-relaunched 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 ... http://www.timebased.com/blog/nzlivecom-wins-information-award 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 ... http://www.timebased.com/blog/major-timebased-management-project-launches-nzlivecom The New Zealand cultural portal NZLive.com was launched in September 2006 by Prime Minister Helen Clark. Timebased was asked to provide a visual presentation for the event.The goal of these visuals was to create a vibrant wallpaper that highlighted the energy and diversity of the cultural events and ... http://www.timebased.com/work/launch-event-visuals 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 ... http://www.timebased.com/blog/selecting-a-good-brand-name-for-a-website 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 ... http://www.timebased.com/blog/basic-tips-for-writing-email-newsletters A South Korean company has developed a coin-size laser video projector module that can fit into portable gadgets such as mobile phones and digital cameras. `We expect about five percent of all mobile phones to have the video projector function by 2010.’ The company expected the projector-embedded mobile phones will ... http://www.timebased.com/blog/video-projector-for-cellphones