Fingermouse Portfolio

Christian Connection

About: This popular dating site brings together Christians from across the UK and features a range of searching and matching technologies and a Flash-based Instant Chat system to allow members to communicate directly with one another.

Fingermouse Internet built the graphical front end and developed a consistent look across the site, which has grown and seen extra features added month on month. Fingermouse has developed many of the new features and has rewritten large sections of the background code in order to optimise speed and flexibility. Christian Connection went international in 2004 with the addition of German and Australian sites.

This site has been featured many times in the National Press and in the media, and is the UK's most frequently visited Christian website.

The Music Directory

About: Fingermouse is currently re-developing and updating this community website where bands and artists can post biographical details, upload MP3s and enter demo competitions. The site features useful music industry resources and will be branching out into providing paid services to enable new artists to get a foothold in the music industry.

Note: The site is still in a state of flux so many parts of the site are not as neat as they could be whilst attention is focused on other elements.

CMJ UK

About: A new site for CMJ (Churches Ministry among Jewish people) in the UK. The site is currently under development and will feature a full CMS allowing office staff to update the site quickly and easily. Other features will be added in over time.

Sherwood Forest Community Church

About: A new site for SFCC, a local church who needed a new logo and a new look to their website. The site features a back-end CMS to update content regularly, and the logo/logotype was designed from scratch for a more up-to-date feel.

Hope To Meet

About: A new dating site from Seventy Thirty (see below) aiming to create a free space for people to get to know one another, and possibly be chosen as a potential date for one of Seventy Thirty's affluent members.

This site is currently in closed beta.

Useful Donkey Theatre Company

About: A simple site for this new theatre company, allowing them to highlight their new productions and details about the business. Fingermouse also developed and designed the theatre company's logo and print identity. Future enhancements include Content Management System and regular updates.

Ivory Towers

About: A project from Widernet (Christian Connection), this is an Internet dating site aimed at graduates, using the same basic site engine as Christian Connection (above).

Fingermouse Internet is responsible for the entire graphic look of the site, which was given a complete overhaul at the end of 2003. The latest version of the site went live in October 2008. Although much of the background code is based on earlier work from various developers, Fingermouse has extensively rewritten large areas of the site and developed additional features and modifications using PHP/MySQL.

The site has been featured in the Guardian, Independent, Internet Works (Read a summary of the Internet Works article here) and various other print and broadcast media.

Seventy Thirty

About: Seventy Thirty are a partner-headhunting organisation for affluent people around the world. They find and vet potential partners for millionaires using their network of contacts and staff of professional psychologists. Fingermouse is involved in day-to-day maintenance of the website and producing print designs where necessary. The current site design was created in early 2008 by a third party, with technical assistance (where necessary) from Fingermouse.

Fingermouse developed Seventy Thirty's client management system, an online database which handles all their contacts, communications and client details. This allows Seventy Thirty staff access to client information anywhere in the world, and helps them to keep track of their communication and the status of each contact or potential match.

Seventy Thirty are regularly featured in the national press, radio and television.

Toast

About: A simple site for local church-based event, Toast. The site advertises new events and maintains news on past events and what's happening.

Greenbelt Festivals

About: Fingermouse has been involved with Greenbelt Festivals for several years, and has seen the site undergo a number of changes. Fingermouse has been responsible for designing the entire site layout and graphics, and developing a MySQL/PHP - based admin system. The admin system allows members of the Greenbelt staff to update the entire front page and elements throughout the site with the latest information. The layout and function is based on a series of PHP modules developed by Fingermouse.

The site also offers secure online ordering for tickets, seminar tapes and merchandise, all held on a separate secure server.

Note: The layout as seen on the current version of the site has been modified by a third party and is, in our opinion, much more confusing than the original Fingermouse layout. The navigation has been broken up and is frequently repeated on each page - a large number of sensible interface design guidelines have been broken. While we appreciate that the current site is attractive, it should have been developed with users in mind - we think that the most recent update is a step backwards for Greenbelt and their efforts to be accessible.

True Blue Tech

About: A simple shop site connected to PayPal's shopping system. The site was quickly developed and uses some fast workarounds to get a few quite complicated jobs done very simply.

The shop specialises in selling new technology, and particularly motorcycle headsets using Bluetooth.

"Speak Out" Challenge!

About: This site promotes the Jack Petchey "Speak Out" Challenge! - a public speaking workshop and competition running in schools in all London boroughs.

2009 Update: Direct links have been removed as the front end of the site is now being maintained by another organisation whilst Fingermouse handles the back-end database system for Trainers and administrators and also develops additional print material. The front end has been 'updated' and no longer represents work by Fingermouse - please note that Fingermouse is in no way responsible for the look of the current site!

Fingermouse also designed and developed the challenge logo, workbooks, certificates, brochures, bookmarks and cards for use in schools.

Jump Training & Development

About: Fingermouse designed the logo and look for Jump, and produced an early (very simple) website, which has now been taken on by Pigment (who Fingermouse work with on various other projects).

Riding Lights Theatre Company

About: This website enables Riding Lights to communicate effectively with their target audience.

News and show information is updatable by staff members through a complete custom-built administration system built entirely in Perl. Shows and dates are updated across the site by the system and visitors can search for shows in their area. The site also features popular discussion forums for people to talk about issues or productions.

Oldridge Consultants Ltd

About: A simple site for a firm of consultants needing an update to their presence on the web. Oldridge already had a good idea of what they wanted their site to look like, with a basic layout and colour scheme Fingermouse took their plan and created a flexible template so that each page followed a standard scheme. The result was a site that looked exactly as Oldridge had envisioned, yet is easily expandable and updatable as necessary.

Antony Dunn - Poet

About: A simple site for York-based poet Antony Dunn. The site uses a very standard layout, with an easily customised base template written in PHP. Antony works as Marketing Manager for Riding Lights (above) and needed his own site to provide biography information and as a forum to showcase new work.