Advanced Website Features

Looking to go beyond a static website? Check out our list of advanced features available to add to your website. If what you are looking for is not on the list, just ask, we are happy to discuss how to add any standard or custom features you are looking for.

Expanding The Visitor Experience

Site Search

Visitors can search the pages of your website to easily locate what exactly they are looking for. We can also add security levels to differentiate search results by user privileges.

Blogs

b2 Evolution Blog Engine

If you regularly publish information about youself, your products, or topics of interest we can install an online blog site for you. Your blog can be branded to have the right look and feel to support your message. Best of all blogs provide a self-service publishing model so that you can post what you want, when you want through just a standard browser interface. Blogs are searchable, and calendar based to allow your audience to find topics of interest quickly and easily.
See A Sample Blog at b2 Evolution

Online Forums

Allow your visitors to communicate online by posting their messages to a forum. Your forum will have the same look and feel of your site and will also help you gain return visitors. Forums can be configured by you to be public or invitation only.
See A Sample Forum
Newsletters / Lists

Allows your visitors to subscribe to your list online. Collect email addresses and build a mailing list. Through your administration panel you can email them as often as you wish. We can also help you with bulk mailings and list management.

Audio / Video

CD / DVD Creation

Embedding a ready music loop , video sequence, or a custom audio track to your website can improve your visitor's experience.Snow Technologies owns a full audio/video editing suite where we can edit your video add music and make it web ready. See this example page where we shot and produced a quick video for a personal trainer. The low resolution picture quality was chosen to allow for faster downloading. We can produce DV quality productions and press them on DVD's for sale or promotion.
Branded Identity
The design will reflect the character of your company and we can use photos related to your business that we will find in photos databases or you will provide us. The copyright of the design will be transferred to you after completion.
Custom Photography
We partner with commercial photographers to shoot custom photography for your site. Headshots, on-location shots, product shots, or emotion and branding shots all at economical pricing based on our negotiated rates.
Promotional Banners


Add a static, animated, or Macromedia Flash button or banner to your site. Animated buttons and banners get a much higher click-through rates bringing greater attention to your con tent..
Adding Dynamics and E-Commerce
Protected Members Areas
Protect areas of your site through membership logins. Members can only access the content that you assign to them. Use members areas for clients, alliance partners, employees. The information you place is available 24 x7 from any browser, yet secure from prying eyes.

News / RSS

Allows you to post syndicated news feeds, videocasts, or podcasts on your website. Snow Technologies can assist you increating audio podcasts, videocasts, or general newscasts from your site. Syndication of your news and marketing feeds is an excellent way of 'Virally" marketing your products and services to pre-qualified prospects.
Forms, Surveys, Polls
Want to judge user opinion of your site? Your products? Anything! surveys are great for getting feedback from site visitors and add an element of interactivity. Collect any data from your visitors through interactive forms and we help you consolidate the data.
Search Database

Store and retrieve any custom data in a searchable relational databases.
Shopping Carts

Full shopping sites with credit card processing capability. Snow Technology uses Miva Merchant, a leading online shopping solution.

Merchant Accounts

Let us help you get set-up to take credit card payments over the web
Pay Pal Integration
Pay Pal click through services or Pay Pal cart solutions
Increasing Site Management Capability
Web Standards / CSS

W3C XHTML Validated
Snow Technologies will build your site to W3C standards for XHTML 1.0 with compliant CSS stylesheet applications. This method of page construction increases the usability of your sites by search engines, makes redesigning in the future easier, and makes the code base for your site clean and readable.
Content Manager

Allows you to easily update your website from your web browser, that easy!
Ad Manager
Allows you to manage your advertising space. You set the "weight" of each campaign and when it will stop (after a number of clicks or impressions for example). The advertisers can login in their online control panel and check the real-time status of their campaigns, so you can gain their trust immediately.
PhotoFlow
Allows you to upload photos to automatically add them to your website gallery.

Search Placement

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Site Reports
We will analyze the site statistics, create a report customized to your goals, and make recommendations on ways to achieve better site performance.
Ongoing Maintenance
Monthly, weekly or daily updates to keep your website always fresh and interesting for your visitors. Monthly maintenance plans are available and are discounted for our design clients. Hourly maintenance is also available.