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Site DesignThe easiest way to explain something is to show it to you, so here are some examples of what we have done with some explainations of how and why. If you just want to visit some of our live sites and skip walking through the process with us, go to our portfolios link on the left.
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Weather Displays |  | | | The 5 inch April Rainstorm |
Exhibits weather related display templates, links and javascripts code blocks from various Weather services. |
Shopping Styles GalleryExamples of different ways to present products for listing on your website. Some presentational styles may seem to differ only slightly but do so for subtle reasons |
Side NavigationThe side bar or side nav. as we call it is the second level of access or links. Planning how this further breaks down your information is essential to guiding your viewer through the site and keeping them comfortable with the experience. What those links are further dictates your design, but that does not mean it has to be a bar or on the side, it just has to be somewhere where your visitor can find it easily.
For example the banner below puts the second level of navigation below the banner and the main links. There are also drop down menus, fly out menus and push down menus; whatever they are, they need to be clear, easy to find and always visible. |
Self Edit Functions |  | |
Our edit interface allows you to build and manage your website with little more than emailing skills. You can add pages, images, edit text, and send newsletters all in real time. Your site is available to you anytime, from any online computer, anywhere.
Web sales of products and services, page modification, picture and file upload are a few of the editing capabilities we integrate into your website. Modules that can be customized or used as is and integrated into your site as your needs evolve. This enables you to add or delete products yourself into as many standard or custom fields as you wish. Our proprietary technology modules run on our ASP servers giving you the ability to do whatever can be imagined as simply as if you were using email or your own account inventory and management software. Be able to update pages of your website wherever and whenever you please. Multilevel user, password based access and multiuser licensing are available to larger organizations looking to have their staff publish directly into their online presence.
The little story below illustrates the possiblities:
Suppose its 2 a.m. and you suddenly awaken from a sound sleep realizing that the prices on your ecommerce site, Special Sales page, are wrong and you could be getting thousands of hits, costing you a fortune! What would you do, call your site host and hope that maintenance is awake? Even Ken has to sleep sometime, I might be out dancing, John could be on vacation, it could happen. Fear not, your site has our custom editing function installed. So haul your sorry ass out of bed, boot up your kid's computer, get on line, go to your site give the secret password, open that page and be a god. Change those prices, change the hours you open, save it, the site has been updated LIVE, go back to bed and get a good nights sleep.
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How the magic happensThere is only common sense. We work out with you what you want your site to be about, plan out a navigation plan or site map; if that works for you then we begin the design cycle. We present you with two or three "looks", we talk it over, choose one, or don't. We go away, we come back with two or three "refinements", we talk it over, etc, etc.
Eventually you have the look you want. It can take as long as a couple of hours or a couple of months, luck has a lot to do with it, so does money, so does experience, so does the agreement we made with you before we started. Its a partnership not a dictatorship, with that said we can make magic. All you have to do is trust us with the swords and stand, very, very still, its all done with mirrors. |
Backup & Restore |  | |
You have a website, it's large and has other people adding and removing products. Inevitably an accident occures and pages of your site are deleted off of your current website. What happens then and how easily the lost information can be reteived is an important aspect to consider for your web-publishing platform.
Some conventional thinking has it that a database is better suited for this task, but for reasons even we didn't fully understand at the time, went in the other direction for the IG edit platform. We use folder based structures. Having recently vetted the database process, we can state with certainty that an IG/Windows folders based data structure _is_ the superior method and easier to backup and restore than a conventional database.
With the ability to automate the archiving of zip files accross a private back-channel, to unzip, extract and move lost data is now more easily done through Windows Explorer and pk-zip thus vastly simplifies the task of reteiving lost data in comparison with dealing with MS-SQL Enterprise Manager.
PK-ZIP:
PK-ZIP can be automated through Windows scheduler to zip the data structure into one compressed and contiguous file. Often for large sites, this is the safer method. Yet in Windows Explorer you'll be able to double-click the archive file from the day you want to restore from and then once in PK-Zip extract whatever files were lost. Save and copy them to appropriate location using Windows Explorer, and the data is back. Try to do that in a database {:}-]!
Windows Explorer
The use of Windows Explorer and PK-Zip is much better understood by most computer users than are database restore operations in MS-SQL Enterprise Manager, PHP's MY-SQL is a little closer but still "vague" to the end user.
In order to facilitate Windows Explorer based backup inspection and repair, we run a private backup LAN out to one of the facilities' stand alone buildings. We run batch files in Windows scheduler to a mapped drive in the remote facility. To inspect, select and restore, the only requirement is knowledge of Windows Explorer and knowledge of basic IG powered website folder structure.
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DetailsIG Website technology features and capabilities.
General Features:
Commerce Accept CC numbers / Paypal or Authorize.net.
Orders system / multiple shipping and handling options.
Users & Groups system (security).
email list system, management and queue areas.
Calendaring & Planner with categories and "file download" features.
Automated registrations and "myaccount" page.
Integrated lists for registrations, contact forms, orders.
Simple and Complex page creation and modification.
Image upload, selectable sizing.
Multiple design frameworks system.
Inherited rights and settings.
Blog and Discussion templates.
Security System - set page view and edit rights for users.
Strong Navigational, bredcrumbs, footer, nav-bars & integrated dropdowns!
Rich Edit template that mimics MS Word, supports copy and paste out of MS Word.
Contact us and custom response forms with admin email notification.
Online Help
Developers:
Customizable Templates
Stong css integration
Custom, standard contact and multi-step forms.
Well developed Shopping Cart System
Email account integration! (Merak Mailserver)
Image formats in jpeg, gif and swf (Shockwave/Flash!)
FTP augments and allows access to all html, images, css and xsl files.
Convenient folder based hierachial structure is easy to use and restore.
Database import and export of content.
GETHTML tags integration including search field and random item selector
HTML templates for fast conversion of existing site.
Blocks xss and splog, frequent upgrade releases, seamless upgrade procedure.
Marketers:
Banner ad systems incudes google adsense.
Reports and traffic system.
friendly search engine URL structure.
Title and metatag fields (just the content is required).
Control Website byline and login appearance (self-branding).
Page sorting and moving capability.
Administrators / Editors
Multi-user editorial access rights
Nightly server backup
Archive Pages
two and three column portal design
rss and remote code support
Housed at a multi-homed facility.
High speed servers on ample overhead connections.
Configure and maintenance of your remote server.
Easy to use Wizard allows you to house multiple websites.
Approvals System,
New to Version 2.9.8 are refer a friend and "explorer" mode (folder) templates that work with ftp upload.
LWS are the design and integration team that have worked hand in hand with the development of self editing technology. We know the steps and procedures to deliver your interactive & operational website designed and built to your custom specifications.
Whether a new website or conversion of an existin gnon-editable website we have the know-how and experience to deliver a quality website at attractive rates. |
Design ManualThe design manual approaches the website design.
Often taken for granted, a good design is crucial to the success of a company or organization's website.
Navigational methods and build out, a design concern can be built out in several ways to enhance the effectiveness of your website presentation.
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PortfolioClick on the links below to view our designer's portfolios
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Remote Office |  | |
Your website can be configured for group access in your office or from multiple remote offices.
Once logged in, your office can use it's Intranet website to publish documents, links and files from home or office.
Hierachially based child pages are recursable so you can organize information or pages of your Intranet in any manner. Website pages and subpages list automatically in left hand mode, across the top, in Javascript rollover mode or using fully integrated pull-down menus.
Our technology accepts text, HTML code, files and supports import and export. It is written in xsl/xml programming language enabling easy customization. It has an MS-Word compatibility mode for those familiar with Word.
It's strength derives from the seperation of code from content from design. New designs and variations of existing website design can be incorporated into multiple framwork mode for a complicated website.
Provide your website visitors with instant access to updated information on your website. Allows for groups, user-editors and configurable security for hidden pages and password protected content. |
Site BuildingYou can build your own website. When this site is complete you will be able to build a sample site right on line, but if you are interested in an inexpensive website or in a full function e-commerce see our ordering info page. |
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