The Monkey Puzzle website was initially created in 2005 to showcase 3 Hertfordshire-based nurseries and an exciting new franchise scheme for investors.

Over the 4 last years MungoWeb has worked with the Directors and, increasingly directly with franchise owners, to develop a network of websites that represent the 16 nursery locations.

The original site was built with a custom content management system allowing admin staff to edit the website content and post job adverts. With the organic growth of the company, in 2008, the decision was taken to migrate Monkey Puzzle to the WordPress platform and create a dedicated website for every nursery.

This decision has proven popular with nursery owners as it allows them some freedom to populate their sites with their own information and pictures to appeal to local parents. At the same time, the use of one common design across print and online marketing also ensures consistent brand appeal and a professional web presence for every nursery location.

MungoWeb provide a full digital creative service to the company including email management for all nursery staff, regular search engine optimisation improvements and the creation of Google AdWords campaigns that draw in both prospective parents and potential franchisees.

Over the last four years we have developed an interactive online game for the company (‘Monkey’s Puzzle’, built with pre-school children in mind) and also advised on website traffic reporting and online marketing techniques.

“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

The WalesHome editorial team were struggling with a poor WordPress implementation and wanted to better leverage the knowledge and writing skills of their blog contributors to drive traffic and increase the profile of the site among their target audience.

MungoWeb evaluated their WordPress platform for style, coding and security issues – the result was a recommended upgrade to the latest version of the platform and the implementation of a new magazine theme with custom tweaks based on the highly popular Mimbo design.

A number of popular Web2.0 plugins were also deployed allowing the successful integration of the WalesHome Twitter feed, Facebook profile and blog posts. A MailChimp mailing list was also added to the site bringing seamless email newsletter management.

The team are now publishing ‘Independent analysis from and about Wales’ seven days a week and seeing evidence of continuous traffic growth with the use of Google Analytics reporting.

“Chris has been an absolute star throughout the process of redesigning our site. From the start, he knew exactly what we were after, and delivered exactly what he said he would and on time. WalesHome.org is now far more accessible, with a host of new features. I’d definitely use MungoWeb again.”

Adam Higgitt
WalesHome.org

Cowboy Country is a unique wild west themed gift for line dancing fans, country and western music lovers,  western movie buffs or anyone with an interest in the USA.

Visit the website now and you can buy your own piece of America, quickly, easily and – most importantly – legally using the integrated PayPal merchant links.

WildWestLand.co.uk is the password-protected companion website for Cowboy Country owners, designed to offer news, events and visiting information for everyone who has bought or been given their own piece of the Wild West.

The two websites and the Wild West Land Blog have been created by Chris Hails of MungoWeb – the blog is a diary of all things western-themed with regularly updated news on related topics, optimised for search engines and designed to appeal to an audience who will want to buy this unique gift or comment on highlighted stories.

The blog’s RSS feed is automatically converted into an audio podcast and syndicated to iTunes offering another route in to the product site. The blog is built on the open source WordPress platform and makes use of a number of user contributed plugins, whilst Cowboy Country and WildWestLand are both hand coded.

The Pengelly and Rylands website had existed for several years as one landing page with a summary of the company’s legal services.

The brief was to create a simple brochure site based on the company letterhead that introduced visitors to the firm’s team of experienced solicitors and the full range of traditional legal advice offered.

A series of design comps were produced based on the company colour scheme with stock photos of the surrounding Kent countryside used to reinforce the local approach to family law.

The final design uses large type and a clean, simple layout to convey information. Post-launch, analysis of site traffic Analytics reports combined with an introductory Pay-Per-Click campaign will be used to increase the company’s online profile.

“We wanted to attract a wider audience of clients and asked Chris to design a completely new website for us.  Our previous site was a single page, and we knew we wanted information on each department, with a design that was easy to navigate around.

On providing Chris with the basic content, he produced four possible designs and investigated our web hosting package.  He quickly dealt with the modifications we requested, was extremely helpful in getting the details right, and I would highly recommend his services.”

Rebecca Bell
Partner

The site was originally launched as the directory 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 naturally drawn to this URL. After a brief discussion with his PR agency, the site was turned into a redirect to the official album and later hosted an Amazon affiliate script generating sales of McCartney and Beatles merchandise.

After a 5 year run the domain was again transformed and now hosts a Google Maps-based directions tool, generating income from AdSense adverts and GPS and travel themed affiliate links.

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.

“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

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.

“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

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.

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.

“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 Antiques run a series of successful fashion and antique fairs in London. The company wanted to improve their existing website but retain control of future content updates. 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.

Since initial launch the site has generated hundreds of new email subscribers, ensuring that marketing costs provide a real measured return on investment and that interested parties can easily keep track of upcoming events taking place across London.

“I contacted Chris because P & A Antiques Ltd needed a completely new website. Although I had some idea how the new web should have looked like, Chris was extremely helpful in getting the details right. I can confidently say that Chris delivered everything he promised and offered me solutions in tune with my business requirements.”

Alberto Ricca
Director, P & A Antiques Ltd