The site has a very good reputation but what is important is maximizing exposure through social media avenues such as facebook and twitter and also proving the client with a platform which can easily be managed and updated by them.

This is one of the many design success stories I have managed using off the shelf premium templates which enables a client to almost completely remove the hefty design budget associated with the look and feel of this quality.

The site incorporates a number of weather feeds, and sucessfully as a first phase migrated all of the old site content and structure over, albeit with a bit of a polish.

The next phase will be to really utilise the technology available and coax the client into that often eluded task of regularly created content.

www.airbornekitecentre.com

To call my friends fickle would be an understatement, however to call them my friends would not be and as a result over many many years we have always had an excellent working relationship spanning what is now 5 sites and a number of micro-sites.

The assure me this will be the last for a while, personally I like the challenge of working with production companies where so much emphasis is about the presentation of the content itself, which in my mind speaks much more about the company than the box you put it in.

Some clever tinkering with Vimeo and jQuery to ensure the optimum user experience and we have a final product everyone is very happy with.

www.3c-films.com

We called in our design partners Work & Play to liaise with the client and help them find a solution that better facilitated the expanding nature of the business.

A new homepage, clinics locator map and unique clinic pages were drawn up and effectively deployed onto the site with zero downtime.

We attribute this ease of update of a sites visual style both with and without the content to the nature of the WordPress tempting system which allows us to develop completely new version of the site using the live site data with no impact of the current public site but allowing ourselves and the client to use and interact with the new version.

At the time of writing we are currently creating clinic micro-sites and are also involved in facilitating a number of SEO strategies with the client.

www.portmanhealthcare.co.uk

The design aspect of this was taken on by my colleagues at Work & Play who helped the client achieve the same styling used in their printed material on the web.

The content architecture development, migration of content and management of the project was my job along with providing consultancy and training for the client in using the WordPress platform effectively.

The site does not break technological barriers but it does have some nice streaming of share prices, aggregation of blogs of the associated companies.

The client has been very pleased with the solution leading to them once again following on the tradition of passing on our praises to our future clients.

www.cellogroup.com

Although completely separate festivals a lot of the brains and driving force behind the festivals are one and the same and we have always approached the 2 projects in tandem albeit slightly biased towards the early launcher.

This years Soundwave site is actually a favourite of mine so far for 2011, something about the way the content sits together, and the seamless flow of development made it a real pleasure to develop and manage.

www.soundwavecroatia.com

We all learned a lot last year building the Outlook Festival site, the client about management and supply of content, the power of social media marketing and how nice it was to leave that to someone else to deal with.

At mogmachine we learned about server balancing and setting up WordPress to cope with massive spikes in traffic at launch and to coincide with mail-outs.

“We never realise your music festival was quite so popular” was never something we would go back to or want to have to say to the client, but many evening were spent analysing server data and balancing user experience with speed and functionality.

This year we were ready and prepared, and although again this year the traffic did surprise us (30,000 hits on launch day alone and fast approaching 1 million at time of writing) it was nothing to trouble the infrastructure in place utilising the latest cloud servers, advanced caching technology and on hand expandability to cope with spikes in traffic.

You don’t really get a better opportunity to learn from your experiences than having to build a site twice. However normally if a site requires being rebuilt from scratch a year later, then you haven’t done your job very well with the exception of, the music festival.
One of the most crucial roles we play with the site is being on hand after launch for the subsequent months to implement any further modifications and make updates as more festival information becomes available and the site becomes a regular point of reference for the festival goers.

We also recently implemented an API from mixcloud to stream submitted mixes to facilitate a competition with a voting system made possible through some snazzy form technology.

Again having learned from last year I think we can now safely say (festival is sold out and site has been live for 5 months) we really nailed this one. ..and without meaning to sound too presumptuous, look very much forward to next year.

www.outlookfestival.com

WordPress was the obvious solution for the site and was deployed very efficiently providing the client all of the functionality they required and the ease of updating and expansion of content that was required.

The site itself does not push the functionality boundaries but takes full advantage of advanced caching technology to server the content extremely fast, efficiently and with the least load on the servers.

The site makes use of a dark theme which being not so common these days is always nice to work with, whilst also employing a dynamic colour switching system for different sections of the site supported by complimentary banners that we worked with the client to create.

Since the launch of the site we have continued to assist the client with Email Marketing Campaigns, newsletter design and deployment and fulfilled a number of other consultancy roles.

www.talentcollective.com

We are delighted with the website Mog has built for us, and the advice he provided in selecting a tool for viral marketing.   His recommendation of using WordPress has proved to be spot on.  Its straightforward and fairly intuitive to make changes and updates  – there is no lengthy process involved which means we can ensure the public face of our company is amended in real time as our business evolves.  And for the more complex requests, Mog is always just a call or an email away.  Throughout our relationship, he has always been incredibly responsive and positive in his approach, and not to mention patient! - Abi Staines / Talent Collective

PUBLIC is an exclusive club and bar in Chelsea, London and they needed a site that reflected their image.

I enrolled the services once again of Takashi Irie who I have used on a number of other projects for design and once again was very happy with the results and more importantly as was the client.

The client was actually a breath of fresh air on this project having firm idea of what they wanted to achieve and knowing when we had found what they were after.

The site itself is more about style over substance for its initial launch however there was a focus given to social media marketing, SEO, and encouraging user interaction through Facebook ,twitter an mailing lists.

After launch as the club began to form an identity there were a number of extras added most notably a system that allows users to view photos taken by a digital photo-booth in the club on any given night.

At the time of writing finishing touches are now being put on an online table booking system, a mobile version of the site and a full events calendar and blog system that push the digital footprint of the brand further.

www.public.uk.com

The site is not complex but was was important with this project that is was easy to access and fast to load on limited internet resources on the island. It also had to be quick and easy for the client to manage and update the content as the business grows.

www.frasiafrica.com

Paje By Kite has the intention of both promoting the hotel as its first aim, supported by holding accurate and impartial information on the facilities, beach, kite centres, weather, tides and anything else your travelling kite surfer may need to know about Paje.

Supported by rich photo galleries, video, social marketing and strong SEO this site can only grow in its popularity with the intention of eclipsing the site belonging to the hotel site 15 years cemented in its place, ..allowing me to secretly win the war without even a horse head being lost, ..in in good nature of course.

Extensive SEO and marketing consultation has also been deployed to allow the effective operation of the online facets of the business from within island life off the coast of Africa allowing for a local place to reach a global audience and then facilitating it to meet their needs and expectations.

mog machine…..rock machine

Marco Favaro – Owner, Paje By Night

www.pajebykite.net