Bespoke Websites

Not all sites are created equally

What if your website idea isn't simply an ecommerce or brochure site? Midlands Web Design offers a lot more. Perhaps you want to create a site to help people track their finances, or a social networking site. Maybe you want to see a list of the most popular music videos being blogged about on the internet. We've created sites to do all of these, and more.

With years of experience and a finely-honed development technique, we can quickly produce a solution to fit your needs. Basically, if it can be done we can do it, and to prove it take a look at a few of the recent bespoke sites we have been creating:

The Leaky Cauldron home page. View larger images
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The Leaky Cauldron
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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:

URL
www.the-leaky-cauldron.org
The Gatekeeper home page welcomes visitors to the site and presents properties from each of its main branches View larger images
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Gatekeeper Property
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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
Buzzcaster front page - shows the current most popular chart and newly-discovered videos. Also features a tag cloud to show the most popularly-tagged videos View larger images
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Buzzcaster
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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
Withayam front page. Clearly conveys the site's usefulness through a simple 1-2-3 process View larger images
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Withayam
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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