Our Web Services
Content Management Systems and On-line Databases
We build easy-to-use, general purpose content management websites that enable your non-technical staff to maintain your website and update and edit content. Our Expression Engine content management sites are simple to use, well designed, and moderately priced. They are easily scalable for websites ranging from less than ten to hundreds of pages. Our websites are used and loved by small business owners with one or two employees and by volunteer organizations with hundreds of people updating pages.
Expression Engine is a highly versatile system written in object-oriented PHP that uses My SQL databases for storing data. It is highly adaptable and includes e-commerce, image, sound and video content management, forms, user groups, forums and blogs, and the ability to use Flash presentations and other technologies. It is very secure and has robust ability to handle on-line work orders, sign-up forms, galleries, calendars, internal reports and other similar functions.
Our websites are cleanly coded, highly stable and well-organized. We provide on-going support as needed, depending on clients’ needs. This varies from clients who ask us to make structural changes only about once a year to those who want more frequent structural changes.
Family Eye Care of Apex is one of the Expression Engine sites we created. This successful eye care practice in Apex, North Carolina, owned and operated by a husband and wife team. This website allows them and their staff to update content as needed and their patients to get information on various eye conditions.
Go to Family Eye Care of Apex
The following are common features of our Expression Engine websites. Expression Engine is capable of many other functions. Contact us if you are interested in features that you don’t see below.
- e-commerce
- image, sound and video
- contact and sign-up forms
- forums and blogs
- Flash presentations
- on-line work orders
- registration and log-in
- galleries
- calendars
- internal reports
- organization by category and time
- on-line databases
- integration with mobile devices
- member groups
- control over who sees what content
- secure internal areas
Interaction / Interface Design
We specialize in designing practical websites with elegant, functional interfaces that:
- Add value to our clients’ products and services.
- Provide users with an easy way to do what they need to do and learn what they need to learn.
- Make it easy for clients and their employees to update content, view backend reports generated by information that users input into their websites and accomplish other important web-related tasks.
The organizers of this annual exhibit of nativity scenes wanted an easier way to collect information from the hundreds of volunteers who loan nativity scenes and help with the event. We created this website, which includes a comprehensive sign-up form that enable volunteers to sign up for a variety of tasks at once. The information is collected internally in sortable spreadsheet reports that enable committee organizers to track and organize the volunteers.
E-commerce
Our E-commerce solutions use a robust Expression Engine shopping cart solution called Carthrob, which we customize for your needs and integrate into your website. It includes:
- A fully functional shopping cart
- Unlimited products
- Ability to modify price, weight or code
- Coupons and discounting, with coupon codes, expiration and limitations
- One-page check-in with login
- Multiple ship-to addresses
- Live shipping rates with supported carriers
- Customizable receipts
- Full Google Analytics e-commerce support
- Customizable e-mail receipts
Flash
We create Flash presentations that present complex data in a clear, simple way.
This flash tool indicates the coverage area of the global satellite network of a broadband VSAT company, SDN Global.
Go to SDN Global
Search Engine Optimization
We do a combination of good metadata tags, naming conventions, keywords in the content, good alt tag usage and verification on Google to provide Search Engine Optimization for the websites we build.
For Expression Engine, we use LG Better Meta to improve Search Engine Optimization.
We track the websites we build on an on-going basis to monitor and improve Search Engine Optimization.
Social Media Integration
We provide the following social media integration:
- Twitter feeds into webpages
- Links to Facebook and a wide variety of other social media as requested by clients
- Facebook Connect
- Facebook page set-up and ad generation
- Share functionality to enable website users to print, e-mail or share page content on almost 300 different social media networks
Web Consulting
We do a wide variety of web consulting, including troubleshooting complex problems and helping to build new features into existing websites. We:
- Assess web needs and researching and provide the best solutions for meeting those needs
- Review existing websites to determine how they can be improved
- Appraise web technology to determine it if is being used appropriately and is working properly
- Provide emergency web support for broken websites
This website for the Global Health Institute at Duke University is a large, complex Expression Engine site for which we do troubleshooting and consulting for buildouts of new sections.
Mobile Phone Pages
We provide mobile versions of websites in addition to standard size ones.
This is the mobile version of a standard website for Advantage, a company that provides integrated media software.
Digital Asset Management
We assess the needs of businesses, organizations and individuals for digital asset management and assist them in creating systems which:
- Help them organize digital assets for easy retrieval by providing searchable on-line databases for the assets
- Help set up off-line databases and retrieval systems as needed
- Enable non-technical users to upload digital assets to web databases and manage those assets
- Help them to properly preserve their digital and non-digital assets for the future
- Enable them to digitize materials and put them into a database in an organized way.
Stock Market CPR, an on-line tutorial company, asked us to organize and provide on-line access to their large collection of video tutorials. The result is a well-organized on-line library of tutorials on stock trading.