OnCourse design & development
We have extensive experience in developing websites with the OnCourse student management platform
OnCourse development Need a custom design for your OnCourse website?
We've developed over 1,500 websites for our clients since 1999, many of those being in the education sector.
We have extensive experience integrating with Learning Management Systems including (but not limited to) Ish’s OnCourse platform.
Our team of Australia-based developers can handle all aspects of web design and development. From basic content sites, to Ecommerce platforms, API integrations and learning management systems, we’ve got the skills to deliver.
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Custom UX solutions
Far more than aesthetics
Always designing with practicality and performance in mind, we deliver award-winning user experiences.
Of course we’ll make sure everything looks modern and professional, with all the right visuals for your brand. But we’ll also be finding ways to boost business efficiencies and create the smoothest online journey for your customers.
This could mean a number of things: advanced integrations with external platforms, a cleaner conversion funnel or push notifications on mobile devices. Whatever your digital goals, our experienced designers will structure your site for success.
A smarter approach to
Web development
1. Initial meeting
First, we’ll get clear on your website objectives. Our discovery meeting will uncover the results you’re after and the functionality you require. After sign off, we’ll start planning your sitemap, SEO migration plan, content and integration.
2. Web design meeting
We’ll discuss specific design requirements and nail down the look and feel of your new website. This meeting is an opportunity for us to get creative and really map out what content is needed for the new site.
3. Design screen
If you’ve opted for a custom-designed website, we’ll provide a number of interactive design prototypes (check out some examples here). You’ll get to review the designs across multiple devices and we won’t progress to the coding stage until you’ve fallen in love with the look.
4. Staging site
This is where the development team gets coding. We’ll integrate your newly designed website into WordPress, OnCourse or your chosen CMS/LMS and provide you with a living breathing prototype where we can start uploading content, data and other bits and pieces.
5. Final tweaks & approval
There’s always a few final tweaks and changes to make to the staging site. Once all the content and data is uploaded, we’ll send it to you for final review and approval. We’ll also implement any necessary URL redirects and tracking codes.
6. Go live & learn
Our favourite part! We launch your new website live, submit it to Google and run a few tests. These first few weeks of data are critical, so we’ll provide a post go-live report with insights into site performance.
WordPress design in Newcastle
Want a WordPress website?
Powering over 75M websites, WordPress is the world’s most popular Content Management System. And for good reason.
Building your site on WordPress gives you unmatched flexibility, technical performance, ease of use and security. Not to mention the flexible design blocks for quick, convenient and adaptable layouts!
Our team designs and develops WordPress websites for clients across Australia and overseas. Whether you’re after a cost-effective theme-based site or a custom-designed WordPress solution, we’re the Newcastle web design team for you.
Seamless shopping experiences
Customised eCommerce
Sell products or services online at any time to customers across the globe with a powerful eCommerce platform.
We’ve got your online store sorted. Integrated seamlessly with WordPress, WooCommerce is secure and up to date with hundreds of extensions to choose from.
Ready for online retail? We can help with all aspects of your eCommerce website, including design, development, marketing and integration with your preferred payment gateway.
FAQs
Responsive Web Design (RWD) is an approach of laying-out and coding a website such that the website provides an optimal viewing experience — ease of reading and navigation with a minimum of resizing, panning, and scrolling — across a wide range of devices (from desktop computer monitors to mobile phones).
Recent changes to Google’s search index now mean that if your website is not mobile friendly you will not rate well in mobile search results.
Custom web designs give you freedom and flexibility to craft your website to your business’s unique brand identity, products and services. We can design and build your website from scratch. Of course, this will take longer than a theme-build website, but we believe it’s worth the wait 😉
Themes are a great option for businesses looking for a cheap-ish (without lacking in quality) website that’s up and running quickly and easy to upload/update content down the track. We can still customise themes to suit your business’s brand, but if you’re looking for something really unique, we suggest custom designs. If you’re not sure what option is best for you, we’re happy to talk through these and come up with a cost-effective, creative solution.
Website builds tend to take between 6-8 weeks from the date we receive all content.
In general, website builds tend to take between 4-5 weeks (and that’s once we’ve got all content ready to go!). Once built, we will need 1-2 weeks for content entry, reviews and approvals, followed by approximately 1 week to finalise the set up and get everything ready for launch.
Of course, the exact time frame will depend on the various aspects of your unique project. We’ll be able to confirm this duration once we’ve sat down and worked out the specifics with you.
In short, we conduct SEO to help your site rank on Google. Our job is to help you identify whatever opportunity is available and how you can maximise your returns from search engines.
Activity such as blogging, developing high-quality backlinks and ensuring all of your metadata is up to date will help to drive your organic traffic. With over 50% of internet usage now occurring on the run, a mobile responsive website is also a must! Also, never forget to engage on social media. Simple things like word-of-mouth can travel a long way!
Great question! Marketing lingo can often become a little confusing.
A website conversion is when a visitor to your website takes an action you desire. This can include clicking the call button, signing up for a newsletter or purchasing a product. Conversions are unique to every client and website, and there can definitely be more than one!
A conversion, however, is different to your website conversion rate. This is the number of desired actions taken (conversions), divided by the number of visitors to your site. This number can change frequently, especially if you provide a product or service that is seasonal in nature.
So you desperately want to improve your website conversions?
A lot of the time, it comes down to the user experience (UX). If the user of your website gets frustrated, it’s likely that they won’t convert. Make sure your website is easy to navigate, loads fast, has relevant and useful content (including text, images and video), and last but not least, includes a clear call-to-action that’s quick and easy to complete!
Web design and development are often used interchangeably. But they’re actually totally different processes that require different skill-sets.
Web design is the process of creating the aesthetic and user experience of a website. Web designers use (graphics nerds) Adobe Photoshop and other graphic design tools to create the layout and visual elements of your website. Think of a web design like a picture – it’s just a representation of your website, it’s not interactive.
Web development turns a web design into a functioning website. Web developers (coding nerds) use code such as HTML to bring your website to life. Web developers take the “picture” of your website and make it dynamic, adding interactive links, buttons and more.
Website builds tend to take between 6-8 weeks from the date we receive all content.
In general, website builds tend to take between 4-5 weeks (and that’s once we’ve got all content ready to go!). Once built, we will need 1-2 weeks for content entry, reviews and approvals, followed by approximately 1 week to finalise the set up and get everything ready for launch.
Of course, the exact time frame will depend on the various aspects of your unique project. We’ll be able to confirm this duration once we’ve sat down and worked out the specifics with you.
“Redback Solutions have been a terrific design partner for our own needs and those of our customers. From big universities to little not-for-profit sites they have brought an understanding not just of design and aesthetics; more importantly Redback have a deep understanding of the web and don't treat it like a static online brochure. Usability, navigation and usefulness are just as important to Redback as making the site pretty.”Former Director, ish / OnCourse
