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| Overview |
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The web has leveled the playing field for all organizations. Small businesses now can compete with larger ones. With geographic restraints removed, everyone competes with everyone. Engaged in this new market, you must be ready to play by their rules. Is your website effective, does it live up to your general standards or is it simply a small aspect of your business that you care little about. Either way, you probably are not fully benefiting as much as your could. Having a website or updating your current website is probably long overdue!
A professionally developed and maintained website can offer many solutions to everyday common problems. A website can help you:
• Better handle customer requests
• Lower printing cost
• Distribute product specification sheets and product information
• Increase customer feedback
• Capture new market share
• Sale or distribute your products online
• Build professional brand and customer loyalty for your organization
• Centralize marketing materials and sales processes
• Distribute secure data to specific organizations or people
• Expose yourself to new markets
• Discovery of new resources or vendor relationships
If you are not doing these things in your current situation, then maybe it is time to start.
Our Services Includes:
• Site design
• Site development
• Site maintenance and ongoing support
• Database driven sites and database conversion
• Online product catalogs and product specification support
• Authentication areas and security restricted zones
• E-commerce and online ordering systems
• Simple informational sites
• Major technologies supported (See Technologies) |
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| Design Principles |
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Our style of web development has evolved over the years. We do not engage in template driven or copyright infringement practices. Instead we develop each website as a custom project. Our style of work is known to be conservative with one or two common colors throughout the site. We like to use visually stunning artwork or graphic assets since most people are visually educated. We like to use flash as a navigational system of buttons and toolbars that allow for the easy access to certain areas. We also like to deploy a new process to each website we develop for our ongoing educational benefit. We focus on function with one eye focused on professionalism. We believe that presentation is everything. We also believe in the following:
• High-end, custom web design
• A clean and intuitive interface
• Relevant and focused information, not marketing fluff.
• Easy to read content layouts
• Cross-browser compatibility
• Dirt-simple usability and navigation |
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| E-commerce |
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| Our first E-commerce project dates back 6 years and achieved international exposure and order processing. Though technology has advanced E-commerce principles have not. We are on our third generation shopping cart system. Each of which has proven to be successful in their own rights. Currently our shopping system works with both Microsoft and Unix based server environments. Our cart can easily be added to or integrated with new and existing websites. The features of our shopping cart system are as follows:
• Real-time Fed-ex and UPS shipping functionality
• Same site or remote checkout payment processing
• E-mail-friendly shopping cart displays
• Administrative back-end support (database driven sites only)
• Works with widespread server models
• E-mail order confirmation
• Gateway compliant
• Session variable-based shopping cart
• Easy to use checkout buttons and navigation system
• Completely customizable
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| Technologies |
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To ensure a successful and long lasting result, we deploy the lasted and most commonly used technology at the time in our development processes. Some competing firms will bait you with future technology that causes problems today but will work in the future. Instead we focus on proven software and technologies such as:
• Macromedia Dreamweaver
• Macromedia Flash
• Javascript
• ASP.VBS Scripting
• Pearl Scripting
• WebAssist
• Microsoft Access Database Technology
• PHP/My SQL Server
• Microsoft Active Server Pages
• ASP.net Technology |
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| Our Experience |
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| As the backbone of our service offering and primary exposure to the web, our development services are the staple of our existence. With 20 years of experience between our two primary developers we have hundreds of web-related development projects to our credit. With each new project comes new and exciting challenges, our past exposure and experience is our most marketable asset. |
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| Graphic Design |
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| Since all of our design services are done internally by one of our team members we are able to design, develop and deploy each website in-house. Creating an Ideal situation for you the customer. No longer do you have to rely on multiple organizations for website development. From theory, photography, design, development, hosting, and onto support, our graphic design abilities is just one part of the overall departmental processes needed to produce superior and professional results. |
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| Photography |
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| As a one stop shop, we can acquire the needed product shots, facility photographs or other images needed for the development of your assignment. Included in the price, one of our team members will visit your site and take the pictures needed. These pictures will be of professional quality and will be made available for this project only.
Additionally we sometimes use images from our in-house stock photography collections. Each images will be used and are licensed for the assignment only. We are always willing to use additional images provided by you if such images are free of copyright restrictions.
The use of photography in marketing materials is subject to copyright laws and ownership rights privileges and licenses. At Tech Crop - Creative Chrystals we take every precaution when working on an assignment to eliminate the concern of copyright infringement. |
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| The Process |
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| The web development process begins with a fact finding meeting to discuss goals, strategies, and determine what needs to be online. We then formulate a schematic based on our findings and submit for review. Once the schematic is approved and the site areas are defined, we gather assets such as photography, copy, specification sheets, etc.. Onsite photography is available and is included in our packages without additional charge. We then work on a design of the site and submit it for your review. Upon review of the design we either retool the design or create a new one based on your feedback. Following the acceptance of the final design we work on the development of the site and backend coding of all databases, applications, etc.. once the site is ready for testing, we deploy the site for testing purposes and final review prior to active deployment. The site is then deployed live and ready to accept site visitors. Ongoing support and site changes are available without charge for two months following live site deployment. |
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| Fee Structure |
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| With a relaxed value-based fee structure, our website development processes have been worked and reworked over the years to provide you more value for your dollars. Unlike most ad-related agencies engaged in the development of websites, we do not charge by the hour on new web-related development projects. Instead we provide a base price for the project based on the time it should should take us to produce the work. Sometimes we win and sometimes we loose based on our calculations. You never loose knowing the total cost of your project before we begin. |
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| Predefined Packages |
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| You may download these defined package sheets or you may contact our office for a custom project. These sheets are general guides and may not perfectly fit the needs of your organization. You may also look at our industry solutions section for a more industry oriented solution. |
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| 10/09/05 |
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| You can now pay your monthly invoices online! |
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| 10/10/05 |
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| We are also developing a new shopping cart system targeted at general retail stores! |
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