Need a web site that's crammed with gee-whiz graphics, has five levels of menus, is impossible or expensive to keep up to date and is slower than a wet week? Sorry, can't help.

If you'd like a web site that is attractive, fast and functional, look no further; we've been putting together great web pages for years.

Because we live in the country and have not had access to a fast Internet connection ourselves, we appreciate the value of web sites that are concise in the delivery of information, and aren't weighed down with gratuitous animations and graphics. This is also important if you want to reach people using internet phones and other mobile devices.

You won't find any Front Page templates or unwieldy machine generated code, because we don't use any; every page is a hand-tooled original.

Have a look at some web sites we have authored:

Karma Kiah Holiday
Namastey Lavender Farm
Collie Rotary Club
Harris River Estate

Sadly, a site authored and maintained for Griffin Coal (by Colin as an employee) was withdrawn and eventually replaced by one of those dreary sites that don't contain anything worth updating anyway. This is what Jim Heath at Viacorp had to say about the original site (reproduced with his permission on the understanding it is not to be associated with its replacement):

The original Griffin Coal web site was also selected for inclusion at WhereonEarthRU, a site which featured a "clickable atlas" - links to interesting web sites by location, arranged on a world map (sadly, also defunct).

We offer a complete service including text, photography and authoring, and will help you with domain name registration and hosting if needed. Costly? Far from it; the sites linked above cost between $500 and $1800 each (not including domain name registration or hosting). We will also resurrect your defunct web site if you so wish!

The WC3 symbol on the home page of a Mumby-authored site is your assurance that each page has been validated to comply with W3C Standards, for consistent rendering on all standards-compliant browsers.

content management systems

The content management system (CMS) has been around for a while and we will build one into your site if you want one badly enough. We say that because it is likely to significantly increase the cost of your web site and many people expecting to "take control" of their web sites never do, because getting to know your way around a CMS can be daunting for some. You also need reasonable skills for manipulating images with something like Photoshop, to get it all right.

Consequently, many CMS web sites become out of date and tired, or they lose appeal with accumulated spelling, grammatical and formatting errors unnoticed by their authors, and pictures which are distorted or take far too long to load.

We will happily provide simple short-cuts if you only want to be able to update smaller parts of your web site (eg a pricelist, calendar or PDF newsletter). Otherwise it will be easier and cheaper in the long run to entrust your updates to Mumby Media (and proof reading is built-in!)

Perhaps you've got a collection of pictures from your old film camera (or just a few favourites) that it'd be nice to have in digital format so that they're not entirely forgotten.

Mumby can scan your negs or slides back to life using purpose-designed equipment for superior results. Scratches, dust or faded emulsions? No problem! We are also happy to scan your prints, old family photos, and documents.

We can print your digital photos at sizes up to 280mm x 900mm; alternatively, you may decide to buy one of our own quality prints. Please note these are not mass-produced prints which quickly fade; we use quality Epson photographic paper and inks which by independent accounts surpass Kodak's so-called "100-year" products.

We recently found ourselves in a situation where someone was in a jam because a video project (for which a sponsor had already paid) was unable to be finished. It was something we hadn't seriously tried before but we offered to give it a go, and after a lot of extra filming and late night editing we came up with a promo for the Mainpeak Collie Adventure Race, which is the target of the YouTube link at right. The film was distributed on a DVD printed and duplicated by Mumby Media.

We were pretty pleased with the outcome (as was the client), considering that the whole thing was shot on a shoestring budget by people (including ourselves) using camcorders, none of us with any professional experience of this sort of thing.

It is put here to show that we are fairly versatile and could probably be persuaded to do almost the same thing again, or just about anything else, for that matter!

Have you got a copy of your wedding video or the kid's school play, maybe a box of grandpa's old home movies decaying in a cupboard somewhere because you no longer have a machine to watch them with?

If you've ever looked into the possibility of sorting out the family home movies or videos, and putting them onto a DVD for the next generation, you've probably had trouble finding a locally-based service or a reasonably priced one.

Mumby is happy to now offer both; either the full service including digital capture, editing, titling, compilation and burning, or just the bits you want.

We can use VHS, Beta and Mini-DV magnetic tapes; Standard 8mm, Super 8mm and 16mm cine film (with or without sound).

We'll also put your home-recorded ¼" reel-to-reel or cassette sound tapes onto CD.

We are happy to produce your event flyers, posters, brochures, programs, certificates etc in electronic form and print small runs on our colour laser printer.

If you would like a "pdf" (portable document format) or "doc" (MS Word) file prepared for printing elsewhere, we can do that too.