Design and Development work in Wigan, Liverpool, Knutsford and Manchester
Quality Web Development using PHP, Perl, MySQL and Oracle Special Applications Development in Visual Basic, Access, SQL-Server and Oracle
Web development of the highest calibre, for worldwide companies, England, Scotland, Wales and Europe

Who Are We?

Moon River Solutions Ltd. is a small IT Freelance and Consultancy Company based in Runcorn, Cheshire. We have been in operation for over 3 years, although we have over 20 years of IT experience in all branches of the industry.

We are able to provide bespoke services for IT work, such as web development, PC and RDBMS database and application analysis and programming, PC support and general IT consultancy and advice.

If you are looking for a web development project, please have a look at the site of our web design and development arm Webcreationz. This part of Moon River Solutions Ltd, provides a wide range of top quality web design and development, using the latest technologies such as PHP, Perl, Flash and MySQL

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What are our Skills?

Over the years our staff have accumulated a number of key skills. To encapsulate them in an easy to understand manner, they have been divided between major, minor and legacy skills.

Major Skills.

Web Development Skills
  • HTML
  • PHP
  • Perl/CGI
  • Javascript
  • Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
  • DHTML

PC Development Skills

  • Visual Basic (4,5 and 6)
  • Microsoft Access (2,95,97 and 2000)
  • Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
  • COM/DCOM
  • Windows API
  • ActiveX

Database/RDBMS Skills

  • Microsoft Access (2,95,97 and 2000)
  • Oracle (8 and 8i)
  • Microsoft SQL Server (6.5 and 7)
  • MySQL
  • Oracle Objects for OLE (OO4O)
  • PL/SQL
  • Transact SQL
  • DBI
  • ODBC
  • ADO
  • RDO

Other Skills

  • Microsoft Windows (95, 98, ME, 2000 and NT)
  • Microsoft Office (4.3, 95, 97 and 2000)
  • UNIX (AIX and HP-UX)
  • LINUX
  • Adobe Photoshop (4,5 and 6)

Minor Skills.

Miscellaneous
  • MQ Series
  • MQ Series Integrator
  • C
  • C++
  • Java

Legacy Skills.

Miscellaneous
  • Clipper
  • Foxpro
  • Novell Networks
  • MS-DOS (All Versions)

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Who are Our Clients?

We have in the last 3 years been contracted to do work for a number of Blue Chip UK companies, some of these assignments include…

Barclays Bank

We were involved in the design and development of the initial applications for the ESP project, including group wide web enabling of a number of critical requests for approximately 65,000 users, including management of internal email accounts, applications and configurations of Internet access, and management of Internet email access.

We were also involved in expanding the ESP application and database to encompass new functionality for the request and monitoring of training requests for over 8,000 members of staff.

We also provided programming support and development for a number of applications written in Visual Basic 6, ASP and FoxPro utilising SQL Server 7 and Access 97 databases.

Key skills used included : Perl 5, CGI, DBI, HTML, Javascript, CSS, DHTML, PHP, MySQL, UNIX (AIX), Oracle 8, PL/SQL, Microsoft Access 97, SQL Server 7, Visual Basic 6, ASP, Foxpro, Windows NT Server and Workstation

HJ Heinz

We were involved in the National Distribution Centre (NDC) development team, designing and developing the middleware interfaces between the new NDC’s systems, and HJ Heinz’s existing systems.

Moon River Solutions was responsible for the initial design and development of the middleware data reconciliation routines for the NDC project.

Key skills used included: Oracle 8i, PL/SQL, MQ Series, MQ Series Integrator Windows NT Server and Workstation.

Cable and Wireless

We provided technical and user support for the Cadability applications based at the Cable and Wireless Site at Baguley, we provided support and development services for a number of mission critical Visual Basic and Access applications, spread across all business areas.

Key skills used included: Visual Basic 5 & 6, Access 97 & 2000, VBA, OOD, COM, Oracle 8, ODBC, AS/400, Windows NT Server and Workstation, NS/Routers, Office 2000.

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Websites We Have Developed?

The following is a sample of some of the websites which we have been involved in developing, in most cases our involvement has been in a design and development capability.

Webcreationz is the arm of our company which provides high quality website design and development service for small and medium sized businesses throughout the UK.

Toddlers2Kids is an online clothes retailer specilising in selling top quality childrens clothes at factory prices. The site provides full ecommerce facilities, with secure online credit card validation.

Douglas Arms Hotel is a country hotel/pub located in Royal Deeside near Aberdeen.

Bottega is a small shop selling designer ladies clothing. It is based in the historic town of Knutsford in Cheshire.

Chams is a traditional fish and chip shop located in north Liverpool. It prides itself on the quality of its food, which includes Kebabs, Burgers and Chinese meals in addition to Fish and Chips

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How to Contact Us...

We can be contacted by all the usual methods including…

Snail Mail : Chris Green, Moon River Solutions Ltd., 17 Holloway, Runcorn, Cheshire WA7 4TQ

EMail : chris@webcreationz.co.uk

Telephone : 0706 990 1355 or 01928 576677

Fax : 01928 576677

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Webcreationz - High quality website design and development
Webmaster : webmaster@webcreationz.co.uk