Case study

ABDA Water Delivery

Bendigo, Victoria

Brand identity Logo pack Website design Local SEO structure

A family water carting business with more than 25 years in the greater Bendigo area. We built a new brand around Blake Skate's twin-steer tanker, and a 29-page website designed to be found for potable water delivery across Bendigo CBD and the surrounding suburbs.

ABDA tanker at the Bendigo depot, one of Blake Skate's photographs used on the new website
ABDA Water Delivery Bendigo logo, white wordmark with the twin-steer icon
01 The challenge

A five-page site that no longer matched the business

When we started, the live website at bendigowaterdelivery.com.au was a short brochure. Five pages (Home, Services, Service Areas, About Us and Contact Us) sat in a white box on a stock sky background, under an orange typographic wordmark: "ABDA Drinking Water Delivery".

On a phone the navigation collapsed to a "Select Page" dropdown. There was no sticky call bar. The services list lived on a single page, beside a stock-style photograph, and the contact page was a basic form next to a pool image. The copy still quoted tanker loads of 16,000 and 18,000 litres, which no longer matched the fleet.

There was no custom icon, no documented colour system beyond the orange wordmark and black navigation, and no suburb pages. The strongest part of the old site was already there in the photographs of the trucks and the team. The brand and the website needed to catch up with the business Blake is running today, including an 18,000 L and a 19,000 L tanker and the earth moving division.

The previous ABDA website homepage, with the orange wordmark, black navigation and a photograph of two older tankers
The previous homepage on bendigowaterdelivery.com.au
02 Brand

From an orange wordmark to a blue, twin-steer identity

We did not receive a formal brand kit or standalone logo files from the previous period. The "before" shown here is taken from the live website itself: the orange wordmark, the black navigation, and the orange coachlines visible on the older tankers in the site photography.

Before

The wordmark on the old site

A heavy orange typographic lockup, "ABDA Drinking Water Delivery", with a grey tagline. No icon, no Bendigo descriptor in the mark, and no system for social, print or a dark background.

Previous orange ABDA Drinking Water Delivery typographic wordmark, cropped from the old website header
ABDA icon on white: a water drop around the twin-steer tanker
Icon on white
ABDA icon on navy
Icon on navy
Horizontal lockup in navy type on white
Horizontal on white
Stacked ABDA Water Delivery Bendigo lockup on white
Stacked lockup
Navy
#02255D
Royal
#1550A0
Water
#3BA3E0
Ice
#E6F3FB
Typography · Montserrat
ABDA
WATER DELIVERY
BENDIGO

ExtraBold for the wordmark, Bold for the descriptor, SemiBold for the tracked location. The same family is used across the logo pack, brand sheet and social artwork.

The logo pack also includes LinkedIn and Google Business artwork, favicons, transparent and on-colour lockups, and a brand sheet. The truck in the icon is the twin-steer conventional, without a side stripe, so the body reads as plain white.

03 Website

The same pages, rebuilt for desktop and iPhone

Drag the handle on each frame. The before shots are the live site as it stood when we began. The after shots are the new design, with the twin-steer brand, shot from the current build. Blake's own photographs are used throughout the new pages, not stock imagery.

Homepage · before and after
New ABDA Water Delivery homepage on desktop
Previous ABDA homepage on desktop
Before After
New homepage on an iPhone
Previous homepage on an iPhone
Before After

Homepage on an iPhone (390 pt wide)

Residential water delivery · before and after
New residential water delivery page on desktop
Previous services page on desktop
Before After
New residential water delivery page on an iPhone
Previous services page on an iPhone
Before After

The old site had one combined services page. The new site gives each service its own page. Shown: residential water delivery.

Contact · before and after
New contact page on desktop
Previous contact page on desktop
Before After
New contact page on an iPhone
Previous contact page on an iPhone
Before After

Contact on an iPhone, with a direct call path and quote request

04 What we built

A 29-page site, ready for local search

Every figure below is a deliverable on the finished website, counted from the build. No traffic, ranking or revenue figures are claimed here.

29Pages in the new website, not including the 404 page
18Suburb pages across Bendigo and the surrounding areas
18k / 19kLitre tanker loads featured on the site, matching the current fleet
5Dedicated water service pages, plus a services hub and Earth Moving

Homepage for Bendigo CBD

The home page is written for potable water delivery in Bendigo CBD and surrounds, with a clear call path and the two tanker sizes up front.

A page per service

Residential, commercial, pool and spa, landscaping and gardens, and water tank filling, each with its own page rather than a single combined list.

Eighteen suburb pages

Including a dedicated Bendigo CBD page, plus Axedale, Bagshot, Eppalock, Golden Gully, Golden Square, Huntly, Junortoun, Kangaroo Flat, Kennington, Lockwood, Lockwood South, Mandurang, Marong, Quarry Hill, Sedgwick, Strathdale and Strathfieldsaye.

Earth Moving Bendigo

A page for the earth moving division, so that work has a home alongside the water carting site.

Tanker feature and SMS updates

The 18,000 L and 19,000 L loads are stated on the home page and services, together with SMS delivery-time updates and a 50 metre hose for difficult access.

Water estimator and mobile call bar

A water estimator helps visitors size a load. On a phone, a fixed call and quote bar stays clear of the homepage hero.

Blake's twin-steer tanker and tank, photographed for the new website
Blake's photography, used on the new site
ABDA tanker at night on a bush track, photographed from above
Night work, from the fleet photography
Two ABDA tankers together in the yard
The two tankers together
05 Delivered

What left the studio

Brand. A full logo pack for the twin-steer Drop identity: horizontal and stacked lockups, icon files, favicons, social artwork (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Google Business), an email signature, and a brand sheet with the navy, royal, water and ice palette and Montserrat type specimens.

Website. The 29-page site described above, designed around Blake's photographs, with a local page structure for Bendigo CBD, the service range, eighteen suburbs and Earth Moving.

Results to come. This case study does not present traffic, ranking, lead or revenue figures. Those will be measured after the new website is trading on the client's domain. Nothing here should be read as a performance result.

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