About Asylum Design and Development

We are Asylum, and we are Namibia's website design & development professionals! Let us have a look at your website needs, so that we can custom design and develop something for you from scratch - no matter what it is. Let us rehabilitate your business with a fresh web presence with limitless functionality and or virtual tour walk-throughs of your lodge or premises.

Let us rehabilitate your website with a professional and fresh look with limitless functionality or a virtual tour walk-through of your lodge or premises.

We can assist you with the following :

Website design and development
Web based Software Design and Development
Landscape Photography
Virtual Tour Photography
Walk through Software, both online and offline
... etc.

Website
Photography

Web is an ever changing industry, which is why your website should be on par with or better than interantional standards to get the best return of investement ot of it.

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Copper & Coal Distillery Namibia

If you are 18 and above and you love Namibian Crafted Gins and Vodkas then you should take a moment and have a gander at our latest website ... and its products, obviously!

This site comes with a fully functional shopping cart that allows you to set up an order with Copper & Coal Distillery Namibia, no matter if you are an Individual or a Supplier. The shopping cart will magically calculate the discounts on certain items if they are bought in bulk, well, its not really magic, its just developer mastery... But I digress - the website also has a membership based service called the Copper Craft Club where you receive beautifully packaged and branded gift baskets of Namibian products every 2 months. On top of that they also have services such as online application forms for Gift Vouchers, Loyalty Cards, Corporate Gifts ... etc.

If you are an esteemed website designer, then there are some design elements worth checking out - especially the vertical lines that connect the headers of the content with the end of the content (if that makes sense), also the randomly generated gallery images that tease the visitor with a fresh set of 10 images every time the page is reloaded or changed and last but not least the subtle watermark images behind most headings that are also randomly generated.
What can I say, I'm proud of my Asylum team in rehabilitating yet another website!

Oshakati Premier Electric

After a few months of web based software development we finally launched the website for Oshakati Premiere Electric. Its actually our first take at a progressive web app, which basically eliminates the overall need for an actual app! To see these app like features, you will need to launch the site on your mobile phone.

In addition this website is packed with features, such as the Report It functionality, where the user can report a fault by taking and uploading a photo as well as allowing location services to pin where the photo was taken i.e. if there is an electrical hazard, one will be able to send the details to OPE.

Find a vendor which filters the table of vendors according to your location. It also shows you a google map with your location along with a radius where the closest vendors are.

Users can also Request a Call Out to their residence with the help of location services.

All of these functions are available to non-registered users, but so much easier and quicker to use once the user is registered, as all of the user details are pre-populated in the forms.

Once the user is registered they can also add their accounts and prepaid meters. This allows the user to request a call out to the location of a saved prepaid meter. And in the near future the user will be able to buy electricity from the website and choose the meter they would like to top up.

There is also an online chat available to registered users, which we designed and developed to ask questions, send photos, links and documents to an OPE representative.

Registered users also get notifications of scheduled power outages, when an account or prepaid meter is approved, when they have a new message in chat ... etc.

If you are an OPE customer, you should consider registering on the website and using all these tools.

Find a vendor which filters the table of vendors according to your location. It also shows you a google map with your location along with a radius where the closest vendors are.

Users can also Request a Call Out to their residence with the help of location services.

All of these functions are available to non-registered users, but so much easier and quicker to use once the user is registered, as all of the user details are pre-populated in the forms.

There is also an online chat available to registered users, which we designed and developed to ask questions, send photos, links and documents to an OPE representative.

Registered users also get notifications of scheduled power outages, when an account or prepaid meter is approved, when they have a new message in chat ... etc.

If you are an OPE customer, you should consider registering on the website and using all these tools.

Aucor Online Auctions

Front-end development for the online auctions of Aucor Namibia. For this project we went through all possible auction websites around the globe and combined the most important features with additional value added and user friendly add-ons which make it easy to keep track of your auctions and as well as lot items. One of the best features is, that you can search for items with certain tags ... i.e. if you are looking for a fridge, you can look for all fridges within all auctions at the same time and then take it from there. Sadly this front-end has not been integrated with the back-end, but I am sure it will be soon!

Pointbreak Wealth Management

In May 2020, Pointbreak asked us to develop front end designs and development for their Wealth Management platform. This custom responsive design was supposed to be a desktop and mobile friendly way of managing one's investment portfolios as well as some other value added functionality. It included statements, performance, tax certificates, investment history, transactions, login-history, profile information, contact details and a cloud based filing system which allows you to upload all your important documentation - i.e. wills, IDs, insurance policies ... etc.

Central Technical Supplies

Another re-rehabilitated website by Asylum! This website has all the aspects of a custom built website. It has a user friendly content management system that allows the customer to maintain all areas of the website with seconds. The website's main custom feature is the relationship of all projects, product categories, product sub-categories, brands and products, which makes it very easy to maintain current pages as well as the support of an online store in near future. Its always such a pleasure if something like this comes together, and the client is happy!

Virtual Tours have always been our strong point but lately clients have been enquiring about standard photography and video as well, which is why we expanded into these areas.

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NamPower Virtual Tour

NamPower Anixas II Power Station Walvis Bay

The Coronavirus pandemic brough a lot of challenges for businesses as movement was restricted, travel was banned - thus companies could not operate businesses as usual anymore. Which is why we were contracted to create a virtual tour for NamPower which allows prospective bidders to walk around the NamPower site on which the future Anixas II power station is planned and interactively find out more about the site and Project requirements. This site is also home to the existing Anixas power station and the now decommissioned Paratus power stations.

This responsive 66 scene virtual tour walk through takes the user through all the most important areas, which are usually quite difficult to reach and or take time and planning to visit, from the comfort of their home or office. With about 30 hot-spots ranging from simple text, images, and photoshopped infographics that pop up when interacting with them, the virtual tour isn't just visually interactive, but also informative. On top of that we added custom graphics over certain areas which aided in the illustration of i.e. structures to be demolished, the passing of certain lines ... etc.

Due to the sensitivity of information we will not be able to demo or show much more than what you see here now.

Tiny Planets all over Namibia

These tiny planets are made from Virtual tours from all around Namibia. Clients such as Journeys Namibia and NWR have tasked me to shoot all of their lodges so that their clientele can educate themselves on what to expect in the comfort of their own homes. Enjoy the below abstract gallery.

Barkhan Dune Retreat 2020

Barkhan Dune Retreat outdid themselves again! When I was told that they had created 5 new chalets I had no idea how beautiful and genius they would be! Along with the chalets, they created an entire limescale filtering system, gray water recycling as well as solar power that supports multiple air conditioners! Brakhan Dune Retreat, in my opinion, is one of the iconic lodges in Namibia!

Fishriver Lodge

Its the beginning of the year 2020 and the Fishriver Lodge is closed for renovations and the heat, and we completely underestimated the heat. Here is a project where the client requested Lodge photography, photography of the activities, their new camps as well as virtual tours for all of the above. Additionally they requested GPS plotting of their new hiking routes.

Have a look at the virtual tours here.

Journeys Namibia Virtual Tours

Yet another stunning collection of resorts and lodges all over Namibia. From the beautiful Shipwreck lodge located on the untouched beaches of the Skeleton coast to the stunning Fishriver Canyon Lodge located in the desolate South of Namibia, this collection of lodges have to be one of the best there are. The dramatic and colourful sunsets are unforgettable! Quickly visit your favorite lodge with this virtual tour software and experience the incredible beauty of Namibia.

All the most important scenes are shot at dusk or dawn to capture all the natural and artificial lighting at its best. Additionally all the virtual tours are 50megapixels large and were shot in HDR to ensure the maximum detail in highlights (bright areas) and shadows (dark areas). The software is fully responsive and automatically detects the resolution of your device to avoid unwanted bandwidth consumption.

The virtual tour software runs online as well as offline, which is highly beneficial when the client showcases their product on a touch screen or laptop at an expo with limited or no internet access.