Internet Dreams - Web design agency London since 1997

Mustard Monkey is a web portal that focuses exclusively on the promotion of home related products. In a nutshell, the Mustard Monkey website is a product portal for promoting household items. Yip, it's an aggregation site that brings together hundreds of products. As the web design agency, Internet Dreams have created a unique website that is designed to promote retailers by increasing the number of customer acquisitions and product sales that they currently receive.

It's been a pleasure to work with Mike Steenkamp, he's one of those clients who is super cool. Below you can review some of the stuff we have done, there are some cool features on the site:



Check out the awesome twitter background we did, be sure to follow the guys @mustardmonkey and stay updated on FB.



Funky Media Centre...



A really slick Virtual Home, where you navigate through each room in the house and check out the featured products and retailers.



Nifty flash navigation on the Retail and Service indexs.







Meet the Mustard Monkey - he is the mascot and marketing vehicle. The idea behind him will be key for future marketing and viral activity. We really enjoyed creating this little guy!





Monkey Wisdom is our angle providing the site fan base with funny updates and advice :)

Combining beautiful web designs with user friendly applications is what we try to focus on here. We recently decided to create a new core admin skin for all our backend applications. We wanted it to be clean, user friendly and attractive. From the core screens below we have the components required to create any type of backend system GUI.

We’re all well chuffed with the results so decided to share it with you. Feel free to download and use it on your own projects. It’s ready to go in XHTML strict 1.0.

If you decide to add to these files at all and feel it would be worth sharing, forward the files and we will post them up.

DOWNLOAD CSS ;)

DOWNLOAD PSD MASTER :-P

Screen 1: login

Screen 2: Form elements

Screen 3: Table layout

Screen 4: Text layout

Over the last year Internet Dreams has been at the forefront of ecommerce web design in London and across the UK. Combining beautiful unique designs with a focus on usability and search engine effectiveness, we have launched several high profile ecommerce web designs that have delivered significant return on investment for our clients.




We hope the following showcase will convince you to commission Internet Dreams as your ecommerce web design agency of choice.

www.coxandcoxhome.com
Cox and Cox is an interior design company established in 1985. Recently Easy Living Magazine said, "Cox & Cox Interiors one of Britain's 50 most stylish shops".



www.fashionhire.co.uk
Fashion Hire allows you to rent designer handbags such as Gucci, Chloe, Louis Vuitton, Fendi and many more at affordable prices. The web site features a real time ecommerce booking engine that allows members to hire bags or add themselves to a waiting list for those bags already rented.



www.kiddikicks.co.uk
Kiddikicks allows parents to sign up their children for football coaching lessons throughout London. It contains a fully featured reservation booking engine.



www.trotman.co.uk
Trotman Publishing offers an indispensable guide to the best and most up-to-date education and careers resources available. We have also recently launched their sister site.



www.thinqfitness.com
This online video fitness portal allows members to see hundreds of different fitness videos from a multitude of trainers. The ecommerce engine allows users to purchase a monthly membership or pay as you go service.



www.flutteroo.co.uk
Flutteroo is a national real time auction site that allows users to win great prizes by playing three different online games. The site has recently been expanded, providing its auction engine to the Daily Star and Daily Express.



www.perfumepoint.co.uk
Perfume Point required a new ecommerce web site to promote the sale of designer fragrances at unbelievably low prices.



www.thefragranceshop.co.uk
The Fragrance Shop wanted a complete ecommerce web site redesign to complement their national chain of over 100 high street shops.

We are really proud to be the web design agency to announce the launch of Magic Loans. This has got to be one of my most favourite corporate brochure sites that we have done recently. From branding through to site design and basic CMS to the stickman mascot, we have enjoyed working with our client to create this site.





If you are keen to know exactly what Magic Loans do, they provide their clients with the very best choice of financial solutions in the market place. Their Services and Products include: Unsecured Loans, Secured Loans, Debt management and IVA’s, Financial Claims and Mortgages. As a creative, that goes right over my non-financial brain, but you might know what it means LOL.

If I was to sum up this site, the logo, colours and illustrations just give the site a world class presentation.

Over the last year our web design agency’s reputation has expanded outside of the United Kingdom. We have been busy creating web sites for businesses throughout the world, especially focussing in Dubai and the Middle East.

Kalam TV (www.kalam.tv) approached Internet Dreams to redesign their video portal from the ground up.



The site focuses on the Middle East market, but a full English version will be launched in the near future; currently the site is in Farsi, Arabic and Urdu. For us London based designers it was good fun designing the site to work from both left to right and right to left.

The web site offers Kalam a fully content managed solution with multi-lingual content control through a custom RTL/LTR language management module. A bespoke video, audio conversion and encoding solution featuring automatic FLV creation from multiple video formats including high definition saves Kalam over 1300% in third party processing fees each year.

Here is what Hossein Jalali, Project Manager for Kalam had to say about working with us:

Working with Internet Dreams has been a pleasant experience. We had high expectations for our website, and Internet Dreams exceeded them. I'm glad that we decided to work with people who love what they do and are extremely good at it. We are confident that our new site will take us to heights we were unable to reach in the past.

...I just wanted to thank you again for spending all your holiday time working endlessly on the Kalam site. We are getting a lot of great feedback from our users.

The team is so happy about the Admin Panel as it has made their lives so easy; in the past each video required 2-3 minutes time to get moderated, but now they moderate them so quickly.

I truly appreciate all your hard work on the site and am very confident that this site will be truly be the strongest video portal in the Middle East. Hossein Jalali - Kalam TV, Project Manager

We were very happy to have been selected as the web design agency for the London based film hire company, Onsight. With 20 years of success in the film hire industry and a very clear brief we have delivered a very clean design powered by a full content management system.



On Sight are the ultimate one-stop-shop for production, post-production and distribution services for film and broadcast. They provide everything from the latest HD and 3D camera equipment to secure data back-up and digital lab services.

For 20 years their special relationship with the industry’s leading suppliers has kept them at the forefront of production technology. They are experts in 3D, HD and in helping you get the best equipment and services for your budget.

I really love the custom player we created for Onsight:
www.onsight.co.uk/showcase/2/survival-series-man-vs.-wild-is-no-picnic

It’s been a long time coming, we hope it was worth the wait. Our last design did us proud for a couple of years but it was time for something fresh. Web design agencies need to reinvent themselves, well that’s what we believe. Check out some of the cool features in the article below, the new site has some nifty things to offer and we would love to hear from you.



We have added a toolbox feature to the site allowing visitors to customise the site colours and backgrounds (tool box below is just an image). You can then save the preferences you prefer. We did this so that we could keep the site fresh as we also get bored of looking at the same design all the time. This way it's a bit more fun.


Have a look at some of the results when playing around with the settings. We were thinking of allowing visitors to upload there own, but decided against since that could get a bit dodgy :)







To send us your feedback, we have added a little feedback icon to the footer (bottom right), feel free to rate the site and praise or slate us as much as you like.

Tired of working with difficult, unfriendly content management systems? Internet Dreams developed their own application. This powerful and user friendly solution allows you and your team to update your site in-house via any internet enabled connection, whether that be at the office, at home or on the road.

The key benefits of our content management system:

• User friendly - The CMS has been designed from the ground up with the end user in mind. Our primary aim was to build something that was simple, user friendly and intuitive. To make a region within your site editable you just add a class tag. You can make any area editable including text, images, headings, tables and lists. You can even edit a drop down menu system.


• No Design Limitations - Unlike other so called ‘enterprise class’ content management systems, our CMS can work with any type of design, including dynamic sites featuring complex backend databases. The content management system in no way limits the design potential of your site.


• Multiple user levels - The site administrator can create additional users and groups. Content writers can create content for pages but cannot publish it until it has been approved; content publishers can create content and publish it. Pages can be grouped together and users assigned specific publishing rights to them.


• Safe and secure - The CMS is a web based service that sits on our servers so there are no tricky installs or plug-ins to worry about. The CMS accesses your files via FTP or Secure FTP for added security and encryption. All edits are previewed in a live environment, allowing you to check changes before the system puts them live.


• Rollback protection – when a page is edited the system stores a snapshot of the previous version in case an error has been made. Administrator can review up to five previous snapshots and restore them if required.


• Headings and Meta tags – Authorised users can specify the title, description and keywords associated with each page.


• Standards compliant code – Since the content management system does not completely rewrite the page code, but rather edits individual elements it produces clean, structure code that can be kept standards compliant, even up to XHTML strict 1.0.

Award winning design, enterprise level content management, client / lead management and an advanced email marketing platform combine to give you every tool required to help differentiate your company in this competitive market.

Key features of our real estate application portal:

• Powerful content management features – Allows you to manage your complete property portfolio and all site features in-house via any internet enabled connection, whether that is at the office, home or on the road.


• Configure all site attributes – Manage and define all available attributes including available countries / regions / areas, property types (i.e. house, flat, new development, land) property features (i.e. swimming pool, garage, air conditioning, heating) property amenities, property views (i.e. beach, marina, lake) etc.


• Have multiple agents – Add agents that can upload and (manage) their property portfolio to your site via a scaled down content management system. You remain in complete control over all agents, specifying the number, type and locations they can upload to.


• Accept XML feeds – Automatically import XML feeds from property suppliers, saving hundreds of hours in manual data entry.


• No design limitations – Unlike other systems, our real estate portal can work with any type of design. The content management system in no way limits the design potential of your site.


• Multi language compatible – add additional languages and either manually translate text or have Google Translate automatically do it for you.


• Multi currency – allow visitors to your site to view properties in their own currency. Rates are automatically updated every day via a feed from the Central European Bank.

Email contact@netdreams.co.uk for a demo of the real estate portal.

Our Client Relationship Management software will allow you to automatically filter any leads from your web site and email into the CRM system. You and your team can then manage and track all leads throughout their lifecycle.

We've removed all the junk nobody really uses, kept it simple and built a system you can jump straight into. Clients tell us it is the most intuitive, user friendly system they have ever used and being web based it can be accessed at the office, home or on the road.

The key benefits of myCRMmanager:

• Share – Need a contact? Update the status of a lead? You can use myCRMmanager to share information across your company.


• Manage – Set follow-ups, tasks, call backs, reminders, and more. Never lose control of a lead, contact or account.


• Record – Log calls, conversations, documents and emails. Keep a history of all communications with vendors, clients, lead, and more.


• Personalise – Tailor the system to your exact requirements by adding custom fields that specifically relate to your business model.


• Built with the end user in mind – The Dashboard is your bird’s eye view of the latest leads and your upcoming tasks. You can also add new leads, tasks, contacts, notes or search for people right from the sidebar. Fully manage leads, clients and accounts from an intuitive web based application.


• Log on from anywhere – It is web based so you can access it from the office, home or on the road. Allow multiple users to seamlessly share information across your company.


• Deals with all your email correspondences – myCRMmanager works hand in hand with your email. You can send, BCC, or forward emails to the system and they will automatically be attached to the right lead or contact. This allows you to keep track of traditional email correspondence.


• Designed to make your life easier – You can see everyone your company knows and deals with from any business sector. Account pages, aggregate notes, tasks, and emails from those companies can all be viewed from your account.