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Portfolio
A selection of recent projects are documented below. These show a cross-section of our work and include e-commerce, content-managed and lite site projects.

The Diamond Store
TheDiamondStore.co.uk This sophisticated website is now managed by Wombat Web, and sells a range of Diamond Jewellery online. Features of this website include:

  • Coded in ColdFusion MX 7.0 with a MSSQL database
  • AbleCommerce shopping basket and customised back-end
  • Photo uploads; automatic thumbnail generation; drag-and-drop image selection
  • SEO optimised: Search Engine Friendly URLs and URL rewrites
  • Custom ProtX.com e-commerce provider payment gateway, with 3D Secure payment integration


Lan Sang Restaurant, Nerja
Lan Sang Lan Sang are a Thai and Lao restaurant based in the town of Nerja in the Axarquia region of Spain.

Wombat Web redesigned this HTML lite site from scratch with an eye-catching template and multiple translations.


Jenarño Property Development & Estates
Jenarño.com This website is a showcase of Web 2.0 technologies. Jenarño specialise in property sales located around the city of Granada, Spain and required a content-managed solution for their property portfolio. Features of this website include:

  • XHTML and CSS-based design, coded in ColdFusion 7.0 MX with a MSSQL database
  • Photo uploads and automatic thumbnail generation (saving image-editing time)
  • Google™ mapping of property locations and local landmarks
  • AJAX driven photo-loading and zooming
  • Property search facility, both form and map-based
  • Property seeker log-in area, with mailshots and new propery email alerts
  • Secure back-end with content-managed data


Howard Kennedy Solicitors
Howard KennedyFounded in 1936, Howard Kennedy is a Legal 500 law firm. Based in London, they offer national and international clients a broad range of legal services. The bulk of Howard Kennedy's work is concentrated around the Corporate and Property sectors. The firm combines the benefits of size and expertise with a high degree of personal care and attention.

This large project saw Howard Kennedy's existing website undergo a total front- and back-end revamp, and is the first to utilise Jason's latest Content Management System (CMS version 2) which gives the site administrator full control to create both dynamic content and dynamic (DHTML-based) menus, with graceful degredation. The system is search-engine friendly and will be Bobby AAA compliant to be fully accessible to all users, including those with visual disabilities (as specified in the updated September 2004 UK Disability Act.) This site is coded in ColdFusion MX 7 with a SQL Server 2000 database back-end. Features include:

  • Intelligent content management to create both site navigation and all site content
  • Drop-down menus can be enabled/disabled, hidden and date-expired, and can be resized
  • Resource cloning - pages can be cloned elsewhere to save data-entry repetition
  • Automatic document indexing using Verity™
  • Simple and advanced searching, including searching of web content and external DOC/PDF files
  • Rich-text editing fields for main site content
  • Page-neutral design - no global template is used, for maximum flexibility
  • Search engine friendly links are generated
  • Priority 1, 2 and 3 rated for Disability guidelines (WebXact guidelines). Website will yield simple navigation links
    • when client-side scripting is disabled or is not supported.


Ray Mears / Woodlore
Ray Mears Website Over the past decade the name Ray Mears has become synonymous with Survival and Wilderness Bushcraft through his popular BBC television programmes.

Ray's existing website, raymears.com, has recently undergone both an extensive front-end and back-end revamp, comprising of a new Content Management System.

In addition, the site has these powerful facilities:

  • Web 2.0 template, XHTML and CSS standards compliant
  • Online shop and e-commerce gateway (using Netbanx)
  • Course/workshop booking interface with real-time course levels (coded using AJAX)
  • Scheduled e-mail payment reminders as course deadlines approach
  • Stock control (with AJAX real-time stock control updates) and invoicing routines
  • Mailing list with a filtered-mailshot facility
  • Manual payment interface for shop products and courses
  • Hierarchical (folder/sub-folder) data navigation
  • Real-time Quiz interface with question management and activation periods
  • Real-time Photo Galleries with full gallery administration and image uploading
  • Secure e-voucher system for gift purchases
  • Email and folder filtering using the MDaemon mail server (via IMAP folders)
  • Dedicated server, mail server, anti-virus and spam control - all installed and configured by Wombat Web

The CMS is coded in ColdFusion MX 6.1 and ECMAScript. Jason's popular CMS module has been used on this project to manage all site data. Jason has written the back-end e-commerce module and CMS. Microsoft's SQL Server 2000 is being used for the back-end database.

Stillpoint Yoga
Stillpont Yoga is the web portal of Yoga teacher John Scott, who has trained stars including Madonna and Sting.

This advanced solution consists of a front-end containing an online shop and student course-booking interface with real-time course place updates. The back-end provides a fully database-driven administration interface, which allows course and shop data to be maintained.

Back-endThe back-end is coded in Macromedia ColdFusion MX 6, and makes extensive use of cross platform ECMA scripting. The administration interface can be demonstrated upon request (this software is also available for integration with other client websites on a bespoke basis.)

The system manages course bookings and availability, shop purchases and refunds, mailing lists, user shopping baskets and sessions, credit-card based e-commerce transactions - via e-commerce provider Netbanx - as well as templates for all data-input tasks. The robust online course booking interface handled some £50,000 worth of transactions in its first month.

Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists

ACTAPSThe Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists (ACTAPS) was created for lawyers specialising in contentious trust and probate work.

The website has recently been upgraded to utilise Jason's Content Management System (CMS), which is written in Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7, and allows ACTAPS to maintain and update press releases and membership lists, as well as serve and upload newsletter documents to its users.

Additional features include:
  • Google™ mapping of ACTAPS members
  • AJAX driven map loading
  • A noticeboard feature is also provided to allow ACTAPS' members to share information
Riad Dar Anika

Riad Dar Anika is a traditional town house hotel in the city of Marrakech situated at the entrance to the old Souk, a range of rooms for different budgets. All rooms are air conditioned, wi-fi enabled, and there is access to an indoor heated pool. This Riad is run by an English team in Marrakech and is full of Moroccan charm.

Arkwrights Groceries Store

ArkwrightsArkwrights are a chain of British Groceries Stores based in Malaga. This small content-managed website was created in a day and allows the owners to keep store and product information up-to-date and to keep customers informed of all the latest news.


Other Website Projects...
Jason has been involved in many other past web projects. These include: