Social Investments
Type
Dynamic Website, Hosting, Email and Support
Requirements
A new website adhering to a branded design was required. A number of dynamic features including CMS and customer interaction and content updates were needed.
Summary
Socialinvestments.com provides an information portal for prospective investors in the UK social and ethical business sector. Mercury1 were approached to develop the website for this important launch.
Customer benefits
The website is fully dynamic, allowing staff to add and edit new companies, including various financial indicators etc. Nearly every aspect of information presented on the site can be managed through the backend.
More information
There is also the capability for companies and general public to add or propose corrections and modifications to information. Requests of this type are then queued for review internally by socialinvestments.com staff (with automatic email notification).
Highlighted features that the website provides to staff and end users include:
- Instant surveys - providing immediate response to user, and results tracked in backend
- Automatically created PDFs to allow users to easily save and print information
- RSS feeds - both syndicating information from other feeds, and providing a feed of its own
Quote
"Mercury 1 provides a professional and 'emotionally intelligent' service to small businesses. Whilst building socialinvestments.com, Natalie was not only patient with us as we made last-minute changes but also came up with innovative and well explained solutions to the various problems we had with data presentation. We are now using them as an IT support service."
- Julia Meek. Project Leader, socialinvestments.com


