Websites Under Your Control Blog

When the water department of a nearby town wanted to take online payments, they contacted several web companies, and found that the custom programming those firms said were needed would be cost-prohibitive.

When they contacted us, we described how our Online Business Partner™ technology would not only allow for secure online payments, but would also allow them to make easy site updates as needed, and post new jobs and other announcements (that would automatically drop off the site when they were no longer relevant).

In addition, because of the efficiencies provided by our technology, we could redesign their site with a new attractive look at the same time we redeveloped it using our Online Business Partner technology, all for about 10% of the costs the other firms had quoted.

The Frisco Chamber of Commerce decided to kick off the national Chamber of Commerce week with the unveiling of its new website, which uses our Online Business Partner™ technology.

Chamber President John Land had us develop a custom design for the new website and build the initial menus and pages. Then his staff took over, and added additional pages and created their own material right in the website, thus letting them manage their costs as well as their site content.

Some of the information displayed on the Chamber of Commerce website resides in a different system, and the Chamber did not want to convert all of that information at this time. To allow for a fast and smooth transition, the data in the other system is displayed on the Chamber's new site through "iframes" or windows within a web page that display the content of a different web page.

While this reduces the level of control available for managing the presentation of the data from the other system, it allowed the Chamber to launch their new website without any time or attention whatever paid at this time to the format and management of the date stored on the other system.

Even though the Chamber did not make any announcement to its members, several hundred people per day discovered it on their own, starting with the publication of the site late on October 20th.

(The graphs here are taken from the standard graphs provided to every owner of a site using our Online Business Partner™ technology.)

By the way... the visitors in the first week were not just from Frisco, not just from Texas, and not just from this side of the globe!

It looks like there were visitors from nearly every state in the US, from Mexico and Canada, and quite a few from all over Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia as well.

In fact, with this much global traffic in the first few days, we would not be surprised to see visits from pretty much the rest of the world when we look back after a month or two!

(We know Frisco is a great place. But how do all these other folks know it? And why haven't they already moved here, now that they do?)

The owner of Logan Teal Salon wanted the benefits of client-editable content, email marketing, and more.

She already had a website that we had designed in the past, and did not want to change much, so she asked us to merely re-implement her website using our Online Business Partner™ technology.

For less than the cost of a couple of small website changes, we were able to convert her site and show her how to make updates whenever she wishes, with no special software needed.

Carolini's Treasures creates and sells custom gifts, especially gift baskets of all sorts.

We designed the logo and look of the site, and built the site with the first few products. To illustrate the variety of gift baskets, we placed a slide show on the home page.

Carolini's Treasures also sells personalized children's books, so we customized the order form to obtain the necessary personalization for these items.

Once the initial site was set up, we met with the business owner to show her the work so far, and the steps for adding more material and products. Seeing how easy it was, the business owner decided she could add her additional website content and products herself, saving her over 60% from the original budget.