White Wall Web UK are proud to announce the launch of: http://www.ask-schwarzkopf.com/White Wall Web UK have recently launched an exciting project for Schwarzkopf, a subsidiary of Henkel.
Henkel, headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany, has about 52,000 employees worldwide and counts among the most internationally acclaimed German-based companies in the global marketplace. Schwarzkopf is a leading international hair product company, offering specialist ranges for professionals and for retail consumers.White Wall Web was commissioned with the responsibility to provide the web system to be used to automate the taking two years worth of Swartzkopf’s professionally developed training material licensed under Ask Academy Schwarzkopf and publish it through a new Web 2.0 environment for distribution to their practitioners worldwide.The project is undertaken in partnership with GM Design, a UK based new media design house who have taken responsibility for the ‘look and feel’ aspects of the system and the entry of content (in various languages). “This was a really important project for us,” says Damo Cross, MD of White Wall Web UK. “This was our second year operating in the UK and it has been really great to land a large project of this nature so early on. It has been integral leveraging off the success and credibility of White Wall Web International.”

The new system was custom developed using Ruby on Rails, a relatively new technology which has found favour amongst the forerunners of the Web 2.0 revolution and which enables rapid development with quality results.The White Wall Web team have managed and developed this project between the company’s staff based in Cape Town, South Africa and the South West, UK. Here is what the MD of GM Design had to say: “The most admirable thing that has kept my confidence going in this journey has been the complete integrity with which you personally have handled the project from the WWW side over both countries. I believe in dealing with people… and I really like the way you talk and act”.

This goes to prove that that projects on a large scale can be successfully rolled out remotely, in the correct environment. White Wall Web, had proven success in our processes. Our team have the insight and skills to ultimately give our clients the opportunity to grow and flourish.“We offer our clients a premium web development service, but due to favourable exchange rates, our clients get maximum ‘bang’ for their buck. This is because all our development work is done by our South African head office, but managed here in the UK,” says Damo Cross.