Web Design. Website Development.
Case Studies
The Ecology Center had been hosting their annual EcoRide, Michigan’s largest bike-a-thon for the environment, for over 35 years. But this year they wanted to try something new. Instead of a once-a-year event, they’d create a virtual bike ride that would not only be a tool for fundraising but would also allow bike enthusiasts to organize and host their own group rides. Instead of limiting the ride to Ann Arbor area residents, they'd provide an online experience to collect donations and connect...
Actionscript; Flash; MySQL; SOAP
Executive Summary
On December 5, 2007, a new web site was launched called HealthyToys.org. The aim of the site was to educate parents about the toxic content (e.g. lead, mercury, PVC) in children’s products, toys in particular. The site was a project of the Ecology Center, an Ann Arbor, Michigan not-for-profit company that hired Mouko, a web development company also based in Ann Arbor, to create the site. We were approached with the website concept in September, 2007 and development began on...
MySQL; PHP
The Ecology Center, a not-for-profit organization in Ann Arbor, Michigan had hired another company to redesign their web site, but for some reason, it just never seemed to get quite finished. More than a year after the original company had begun the redesign process, the Ecology Center contacted Mouko, hoping we could finally get the site over the finish line and to a go-live state.
Knowing very little about the Ecology Center, the information their web site contained, and uncertain of the...
PHP
California Poison Control needed apps to allow a wide audience to find nearby Poison Control Centers nation-wide. The apps needed to be provided in both English and Spanish, had to work on non-”Smart“ phones via SMS text messaging and on the web.
The Solution
Using a list of poison control centers provided to us by California Poison Control, and a database of zipcode and geo-coordinates, we created a database accessible via an XML-based web service. Our programmers used the MobileCommons text...
Flash; MySQL; SMS and Texting; Geocoding
The Ecology Center, an Ann Arbor not-for-profit was ready to release the next generation of its HealthyToys.org web site. A year before, when the first generation site had gone live, the response had vastly exceeded expectations. The press went wild — the site received coverage from CNN, Fox News, and countless other media outlets. Seeing the coverage, droves of concerned parents had rushed to the site, everyone trying to download data from the same source at exactly the same time. The site...
Amazon Web Services; Cloud Computing; Amazon S3; RightScale Cloud Management
An abandoned 19th century steam plant sat gathering dust on Water Street in downtown Toledo Ohio until entrepreneurs Dave Ball and Jim Jackson decided to renovate the vacant facility and turn it into an historic housing development along the Maumee River. Water Street Station, as the project was named, needed a place on the web to advertise its condominiums and rental units. The site had to accentuate the historic aspects of the building in addition to showing up-to-date pricing and...
XML; AJAX