About
We are a small web design studio located in Clevedon, Auckland, New Zealand. We mostly work with businesses in the local area but have worked with clients from further afield including Australia, Canada and the UK.
Tom Rishworth is the Managing Director of Atmosphere Studios. He has a Bachelor's degree in advertising from AUT in Auckland and initially worked for a large multinational advertising agency. After deciding the corporate advertising world wasn't for him, Tom decided to pursue a more creative career and began working in graphic design. He joined a record label and was responsible for producing album artwork, posters and advertising material. This then lead eventually to web design work and the establishment of Atmosphere Studios where Tom now is creating functional and beautiful web sites for a growing number of clients within New Zealand and internationally.
We love Drupal
Most of our websites are built with Drupal, a very powerful Content Management System (CMS). Drupal empowers our clients to easily and affordably control every aspect of their website. Drupal based websites can easily be expanded down the line with more features, like adding e-commerce functionality, adding a blog, or a photo gallery.
Drupal is Open Source which means the code is freely available to anyone to develop extra features, and as such there are more than 4,000 contributed modules available to extend the functionality of Drupal. It has an incredibly large and active community of developers which means our clients have access to a large base of talent that can assist them in the future. This is a key advantage over the proprietary systems many web design agencies offer, as you are stuck with only what they can do for you.