Clients: the MungoWeb portfolio
MungoWeb can offer you a personal service tailored to your industry and audience. Take a look through the client list below and visit the live sites to see our portfolio of work:
Nick Calori
2008 - www.nickcalori.com
Nick wanted help producing a website that showcased his portfolio of short films and professional movie editing experience. The page templates were kept purposefully simple with HTML comments in place and a brief manual offering guidance on making edits in the future.
Customer feedback:
"I approached Chris and asked him to make me a clear yet professional looking website. He took on board all my suggestions, offered me a number of excellent solutions, and in general understood immediately what I was after. I am extremely happy with the result. He also went to the trouble of producing a very clear manual to aid me in up keeping the site. I cannot recommend him highly enough. Thanks for the excellent work."
Nick Calori
Filmmaker
Freddie Cucumber
2007 - www.freddiecucumber.co.uk
A simple brochure site designed to appeal to both parents and their children when seeking out a unique party entertainer.
The colours and graphics expand on the cucumber theme to create a fun and eye-catching showcase. A PDF colour in sheet and online jigsaw puzzles offer simple interactive features.
Customer feedback:
"I was wanting to develop my business as a children's entertainer and asked Chris to design a web site for me. I had no idea what I wanted, only that it had to be family friendly, colourful and relatively straightforward to navigate around. I left the rest to Chris. The design that Chris finally came up with was inspirational! He was also incredibly patient and seemed to take the confused suggestions that I had and turn them into a clear and refreshing design. I couldn't have been more pleased!"
Mark Wilkinson
Freddie Cucumber
Kohat Road Neighbourhood Watch
2007 - www.kohatroad.org.uk
Established to support the local community initiative to reduce crime, the website originally hosted incident reports and alerts supplied by Merton Police.
Google Maps offered a useful way to represent crime stats on the local neighbourhood and a MySQL database was linked to the Maps API to display local crime data similar to chicagocrime.org. Google AdSense placements and Amazon.co.uk affiliate links have been used to help pay for hosting.
Brands Business
2006 - www.brandsbusiness.com
This proof of concept site was developed over several months to think through and expand on the commercial possibilities around a global brands database. A bespoke online content management tool was created for the easy addition and editing of new companies with latest entries appearing dynamically on the homepage.
A cross-referenced news story database and vertical search tool (provided by Google Co-op) were added later.
Customer feedback:
"MungoWeb were extremely helpful in getting the initial site for Brands Business Ltd off the ground. They devised the strategy for brandsbusiness.com and were involved at every stage up to the site going live. They were able to help Brands Business clarify their ideas as the work progressed and gave valuable input into the organisation, functions and design of the site. MungoWeb dealt swiftly with modifications requested by Brands Business and met all the deadlines with a minimum of fuss. MungoWeb also helped Brands Business build a pilot search engine for luxury brands."
Peter Field
Partner, Brands Business Ltd
P & A Fairs
2006 - www.pa-antiques.co.uk
P & A Antiques run a series of successful fashion and antique fairs in London. The company wanted to improve their existing website but retain control of content updates on a very limited budget. MungoWeb designed a set of new pages to reflect their printed promotional material with clear placeholder comments and provided training for editing the HTML code.
Monkey Puzzle Day Nurseries
2005 - www.monkeypuzzledaynurseries.com
The Monkey Puzzle website was initially created to showcase 3 Hertfordshire-based nurseries and an exciting new franchise scheme for investors. In the last two years the chain has grown to eleven locations and the planning put in place at the site specification stage has ensured the organic growth has taken place without problems when expanding both the navigation and back-end content management system.
MungoWeb provide a full technical service including email management for all nursery locations and the creation of Google AdWords campaigns that draw in both prospective parents and potential franchisees. The latest addition to the site is an interactive online game, 'Monkey's Puzzle', that was developed with pre-school children in mind.
Customer feedback:
"Monkey Puzzle Day Nurseries have been working with MungoWeb for over three years. MungoWeb worked closely with us to develop our website from scratch. We gave them a brief that was followed and interpreted to the word resulting in a logical, vibrant website that promotes Monkey Puzzle in its very best light. I will be working with MungoWeb to continue developing the Monkey Puzzle website and would highly recommend MungoWeb to any new clients.
Mark Crosby
Managing Director, Monkey Puzzle Day Nurseries
Surrenden Pens
2004 - www.parker51.co.uk
This site was originally built to accompany the publication of the first definitive book on the Parker 51, 'the world's most successful fountain pen'. The website was designed to follow the style of the printed book and MungoWeb coded the site to match the designer's page layouts.
David Shepherd of Surrenden Pens also wanted the ability to sell selected items from his extensive collection online. Having built up over 500 positive feedbacks on eBay, MungoWeb suggested continuing to use the global auction platform but to also list items for sale on the Parker 51 website using the eBay API. Simple javascript code can be swiftly edited to list all related category items or just those being sold under a selected ID.
Customer feedback:
"This was my first experience of internet sales and it has proved very successful. Chris and MungoWeb produced a visually interesting and informative web site which has generated an enormous flow of traffic. The work was done quickly, conscientiously and exceeded my expectations. I have no reservations about recommending MungoWeb to any potential clients."
David Shepherd
Author of 'Parker 51'
Wedding website
2003
MungoWeb built a basic website to hold wedding invitation, accommodation and travel details. The templates provided were then used to showcase the photos to family and friends after the event.
National HIV Prevention Information Service
2002 - www.hda-online.org.uk/nhpis/
The NHPIS website was looking dated with a frames design. Large amounts of content needed to be reorganised and at the same time updated with the look and feel of the existing Health Development Agency site.
MungoWeb audited the existing site layout and worked with NHPIS staff to confirm existing and future needs. The new website was then built out using simple templates that would enable internal staff to makes further updates with Dreamweaver.
Nurse Educators
2001 - www.hda-online.org.uk/nurseeducators/
A new edition of the printed resource pack for nurse educators signalled the need for a new website to act as an additional aid for training.
The full pack was produced online with intensive cross-linking to aid navigation. HTML pages were designed with simple code and layout to meet stringent NHS accessibility guidelines and were Bobby compliant.
Customer feedback:
"MungoWeb offered an efficient and effective service in undertaking a short-term review and update of an existing website. They were helpful, responsive and able to undertake and complete our work in a very tight timescale."
Sue Latchem
NHS Specialist Advisor
Health Development Agency
Well-Aware
2000 - www.well-aware.co.uk
MungoWeb worked side by side with the directors of a new internet company to produce a demonstration website to show to potential backers.
The site was continuously developed over several months to produce a good looking prototype that made the business plan a reality.
Customer feedback:
"MungoWeb were responsive to suggestions, gave me good and practical ways of implementing my ideas and support once the demonstration website was up and running. Work was completed fast and to deadline allowing us to take our plan to the next stage."
Colin Bain
Director
Well-aware
Dyslexia ADD
2000 - www.dyslexia-add.co.uk
This was the central source of UK information for American neurologist Dr Harold Levinson. The original site was designed and built to be easily readable by people who suffer from dyslexia, with the ability for the user to change font and page background colours a key tool. The second incarnation of the website was designed to meet the global style chosen for all Dr Levinson's presentational material, including his American website.
dyslexia-add.co.uk was enhanced with a discussion forum for people to meet and share advice, a site search for finding specific information and streaming video clips of Dr Levinson being interviewed on British TV. Dr Levinson has now scaled back his UK visits and the dedicated .co.uk site has been closed.
Risk Books
1999 - www.riskbooks.com
The online store for Risk Books, a leading publisher of titles designed for the finance professional. The existing site was completely redesigned to make it easier for the visitor to find titles that interested them with the reassurance of secure online ordering.
MungoWeb offered a totally outsourced third party service for 6 years before the company was purchased and a new site created. The online store brought in up to 50% of total orders and MungoWeb worked with in-house marketing staff to enable seasonal discounts, create affiliate partner stores and design and send email marketing promotions.
Customer feedback:
"Chris Hails of MungoWeb was employed on a freelance basis by Risk Books to devise and implement a new website. His brief was to improve the site's functionality, introduce secure on-line ordering and completely re-design the website. After four months of planning and implementation, the site went live at the beginning of March 2000 and we now have an exceptional website that offers our customers a search facility, secure on-line ordering and is easy to use. As a result we have seen an increase in sales of over 20% directly from the site and very satisfied customers: [Customer feedback] "I have just completed finding a book title and ordering it on your website. It was completely understandable, easy to use and fool proof. What a great site!!" Donna Forristal, Conoco.
Paula Soutinho
Marketing Manager
Risk Books
Thomson Financial intranet
1999
MungoWeb acted as an external technical contractor, transferring existing help documentation into HTML format for inclusion in the corporate intranet product Oasys Global Benchmarks.
Customer feedback:
"Having used Mungoweb for several months, I am continually impressed with the speed, accuracy and quality of service and work that they produce - and at competitive rates. With so many companies to choose from, it's great to find one that stands out from the crowd."
Laura De Friend
Marketing Manager
Thomson Financial ESG
Dr Gabriel Burstein - GLOBAL MACRO ARBITRAGE
1999 - globalmacroarbitrage.com
Designed to support the launch of his book, 'Macro Trading', this site focuses on the work of Dr Gabriel Burstein and the world of global macro. Visitors are offered an introduction to the book and author and associated press coverage.
Customer feedback:
"Creative, honest and always meets deadlines"
Dr Gabriel Burstein
Driving USA
1998 - www.drivingusa.com
When originally launched the site was designed to be the central source of information for fans of the American car scene in the UK, with an extensive supplier, cars and parts database plus news stories and classifieds listings.
The site proved popular but unprofitable. In April 2002 Sir Paul McCartney kicked off his 'Driving USA' tour playing 27 shows across 14 states and fans were drawn to this URL. After a brief discussion with his PR agency the site was turned into a redirect to the official album and now hosts an Amazon affiliate script generating sales that pay for web hosting.
