Beautiful Design

We believe that every website should be appealing to look at.

The hallmarks of an effective and attractive design include:

• Simplicity
• Coordinated colours
• Clear fonts
• Identifiable icons
• Logical flow of content

The design of the website should reflect the message behind the site.

For many businesses and other organisations, the website is the first contact the customer makes with them. An attractive and professional website has the potential to make that all-important good first impression, and make new customers choose you over your competitors.

At Mumbo Media, we devote a lot of our time to making things look good. We are expert at striking the right balance between something that looks great, and something that is useable. Our background in signs has given us an excellent appreciation of what looks right, and what works.

Easy to Navigate

To be effective, a website must allow visitors to find what they are looking for easily.

The navigation system used should allow a logical path to each area of the site, and should group similar items together. Navigation should be consistent, and accessible.

At Mumbo Media, we like to work out a clear picture of how each site will be arranged well in advance of completing the work. We group content logically and rely on simple and intuitive navigation systems. We conduct a significant amount of testing to make sure our site is accessible to as many people as humanly possible!

Interesting Content

A beautifully designed website is useless without solid, interesting content to make visitors keep coming back.

If your website is selling a product, it should have background information about the products. It should provide interesting reference material that your customers may find useful, and where possible, there should be some 'extras' available for those really keen visitors to download (wallpapers, banners and so on).

Potential customers may visit a site that looks nice once or twice, but they will only keep coming back if the site has something to reward them.

At Mumbo Media, we work closely with our customers to ensure as much useful content as possible is added to each site.

Regular Updates

A successful website absolutely MUST be updated regularly.

Nothing will turn customers away faster than the realisation that the site they are visiting has not changed for months or even years.

News updates, new product reviews, information about an upcoming (or just completed) event, a blog - any of these will allow the visitors to a site to interact with the site, and will motivate them to keep coming back to the site and checking for anything new.

At Mumbo Media, we offer a range of options where the website owner can complete updates easily and regularly without knowing anything about web design, HTML or FTP. If you can write an email, you're qualified to add updates to one of our sites.

We offer three main styles of owner-updateable pages:

1. Blog Style - where regular entries are made. This type of page is popular for News pages and much more. The interface for writing a new entry is web-based, and easy to use (and easy to change if you notice a mistake later!). The best part is, all of the formatting is automatic, so you just have to come up with the clever words.
2. Document Style - where you may wish to change the static content of a particular page from time to time. This type of page is popular for About Us pages, where things may change, and you just want the freedom to go in and add that new staff member. The interface looks exactly like a normal word-processing program.
3. Photo Gallery - where you can add photos with ease. Based on the fantastic (and free!) Flickr system, you have a number of options for uploading photos - you can do it online via a web-based interface, you can use one of the available uploading programs or, if you have a suitable device (many of the modern mobile phones are capable) you can upload directly from your camera-equipped mobile phone.