Our Portfolio
Below is a selection of our most recent websites. Click the links on the left menu to view more of our work.
- CLIENT
- The Leaky Cauldron
- BRIEF
-
With over 100,000 people viewing it every day, as well as a personal endorsement from J.K. Rowling, The Leaky Cauldron is one of the biggest and best Harry Potter fansites on the Internet. We built the site from scratch and have operated it for the past 4 years:
- Webby award winning website (2006 - People's Voice award for best Celebrity/Fansite)
- J. K. Rowling's favourite Harry Potter site
- Many projects including an image gallery , video gallery and forum
- URL
- www.the-leaky-cauldron.org
- CLIENT
- GP Select
- BRIEF
-
GP Select provide training courses across the UK. The website allows applicants to book a place on any course and pay online with their credit card.
- Rapid Development - GP Select took a total of 4 weeks from signing contracts to having a live site
- Google Ranking - Achieved a placement in the top 5 Google results within 2 weeks - now in the top 2.
- New courses and venues can be added via the customised administration section
- URL
- www.gpselect.co.uk
- CLIENT
- Roots Records
- BRIEF
-
Roots Records had an existing mail-order business selling specialised folk music CDs and related products. They came to us in early 2007 to produce a new website for their customers to browse and purchase from their vast range of products.
- Secure online payment system
- Specialised import function to import product information from their existing database
- Newsletter module built into the site for electronic marketing
- URL
- www.rootsrecordsonline.co.uk
- CLIENT
- Gatekeeper Property
- BRIEF
-
Gatekeeper Property is a Banbury and Swindon based estate agent which needed a website to link in to its database to display all of its current properties. Midlands Web Design crafted a solution which provides them with a reliable website they can update themselves
- Automatically updates property lists from Dezrez, a popular estate agent management tool
- Provides RSS feeds to notify customers immediately when new properties become available
- Additional features such as mortgage calculators provide extra value to customers
- URL
- www.gatekeeperproperty.co.uk
- CLIENT
- Come Home Clothing
- BRIEF
-
Come Home Clothing is a new company set up to sell clothing online. The brand is different because it enables you to add a personalised 'patch' to your garments, making them great for gifts to friends and family. We produced the website in collaboration with another local graphic design company:
- Specialised Shopping Cart lets you add personalised messages to your items
- Secure online payments and immediate email notification of every sale
- Email setup for all staff members
- URL
- www.comehomeclothing.com
- CLIENT
- Withayam
- BRIEF
-
Withayam is a website created to help students manage their household finances. The brainchild of a recent university graduate, Withayam lets everyone enter in the bills they pay (even recurring bills like gas and electricity), then works out who owes who what
- Custom bill-entry form makes adding one-off and recurring bills a breeze
- Summary page tells each housemate exactly who owes them how much and for what
- Integrated with Facebook for easy login and friend management
- URL
- www.withayam.com
- CLIENT
- Buzzcaster
- BRIEF
-
Buzzcaster was a new company looking for a niche in the market. They decided they wanted to create a daily chart of the most popular music videos across the Internet, but didn't know how to go about doing it. Midlands Web Design created a totally unique system to automatically read over 2,000 blogs every day and produce a chart based on which videos each blog is talking about
- Unique automated blog-reader scans over 2,000 blogs several times each day
- Counts the total number of links to each music video and produces a daily most popular chart
- Fast turnaround - the site was completed in under 3 weeks
- URL
- www.buzzcaster.com
- CLIENT
- Sure Will
- BRIEF
-
Sure Will is a Nuneaton-based will-writing company, which needed an online will-writing website which was a lot more user-friendly than any other. We created a specialised, extremely easy-to-use website which enables customers to draft their Will online and pay for it to be created and delivered to them.
- Bespoke ecommerce site with uniquely easy-to-use will-writing system
- Secure online payments and order management
- Administrative back-end allows Sure Will to create discounts and special offers
- URL
- www.surewill.co.uk
- CLIENT
- Fast Sale Property
- BRIEF
-
Fast Sale Property needed a website to publicise their property purchasing business. Midlands Web Design crafted a custom-built content management website for Fast Sale which enables them to update their site as often as they need to keep the site fresh and informative.
- Fresh, clean design
- Search Engine Optimisation
- Content-managed site allows Fast Sale to update their website quickly and easily
- URL
- www.fastsaleproperty.co.uk
- CLIENT
- The Holistic Group
- BRIEF
-
The Holistic Group is a marketing communications consultancy specialising in the property, design and construction industries.
- Content-managed site allows The Holistic Group to update their website quickly and easily
- Personalised pages about each director put human face on The Holistic Groups
- File Uploads such as PDF reports are simple through the intuitive management interface
- URL
- www.holisticgroup.co.uk