Website Options Overview

Blogs

A blog is perfect for staying in touch with your customers. You can add regular "posts" to your site directly (without needing a web designer). Think of "posts" as the business equivalent of diary entries. What happened this week, what is new in store this month, the owner has a new grandkid, special discounts on XYZ until the 18th of the month. If you allow it, your customers can add comments as well. Your blog can be the main item on your site, the first thing visitor see. It can also be a sub-page, something that interested customers can navigate to.

For an interesting alternative also take a look at our Client Updatable sites.

Blogs Info and Examples

Animations

Few things grab your customer's eye like movement. Flash is the most universal of all the movement options for a website. While entire websites can be programmed in Flash, we prefer to use it sparingly. A few small touches of Flash add excitement and interest to a site.

Animations Info and Examples

Slide Shows

Slideshows allow you to present a catalog of images without requiring your customers to navigate through multiple webpages.

Slide Shows Info and Examples

Navigation

Navigation determines how your clients travel from one part of your website to another, for example: from the home page to the "about us" page. A good pre-planned navigation system allows free travel and avoids "dead ends" that can frustrate visitors.

Navigation Info and Examples

Contact Forms

Quite a few web users no longer use a convention email client, they use "web based" email. Also, most public computers do not have a convention email program. The typical email "link" will not work for these customers. It is usually a good idea to put a "Contact Form" on your site that allows customers to email you directly from your website, without needing or using an email program on the customer's computer.

Contact Forms Info and Examples

Tabs and Elevators

Tabs and elevators allw you to have lots of information on a single page. They act like tabs on a filing system, when you select a "tab" you see the info in the "file" while the info in other tab/folders is hidden. The text you are currently reading is in a tab/elevator. If you select "Contact Forms" in the "Tab" above, this info will disappear and the "Contact Form" info will appear.

Tabs and Elevators Info

Zoom Images

Images and photographs on the web are limited by current technology to about 96 dots per inch. That isn't terribly sharp, and most attempts to enlarge a web images result in fuzzy, out of focus looking, images. The two techniques presented here load both a normal sized web image, and a larger high resolution image. This allows your viewer to "zoom" into details within your image and view the enlargement as sharp as the original file. Customers can view far more detail than conventional web images.

Zoom Image Info and Examples