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.
Bendigo, Victoria
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.
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.
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.
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.
The approved mark sits the wordmark to the right of a water-drop icon. Inside the drop is Blake's all-white conventional twin-steer tanker, with the tank on the chassis. Horizontal and stacked lockups, in navy or white text, cover light and dark grounds.
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.
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 on an iPhone (390 pt wide)
The old site had one combined services page. The new site gives each service its own page. Shown: residential water delivery.
Contact on an iPhone, with a direct call path and quote request
Every figure below is a deliverable on the finished website, counted from the build. No traffic, ranking or revenue figures are claimed here.
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.
Residential, commercial, pool and spa, landscaping and gardens, and water tank filling, each with its own page rather than a single combined list.
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.
A page for the earth moving division, so that work has a home alongside the water carting site.
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.
A water estimator helps visitors size a load. On a phone, a fixed call and quote bar stays clear of the homepage hero.
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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