At CINIVA, we believe a website should do more than present a nice picture for people to look at before moving on to the next website. If your aim is to foster a community of regular subscribers and increase sales and visibility, your website needs to stand tall and tower over your competitors. Interactive functionality and user-friendly Web applications designed to hold existing visitors and attract new ones provide an affordable solution to online marketing and longevity. Why have just a website when you can offer users a place to go and a place to stay? Improve your online marketing efficiency with customized Web applications from CINIVA. Contact us today at 757.499.1990 to learn how to add our functionality to a new or existing website. Online transactions and payments - Sell products online, accept credit cards and Paypal, and allow for customer interaction. Please see our extensive E-Commerce section for more information creating an online store. Events Calendars - Let the world know what your doing, where it's happening, and when to be there. Community and travel sites in particular can take advantage of custom event calendar functionality from CINIVA to enhance the interactive usability of their sites. Post information on concerts, sporting events, charity events, and parties. Events Registration Manager - Once you've posted your schedule of events, now you can let people register for them online! Our user-friendly events registration tools allows people to sign up for free and fee-based events and conferences, and pay online! You collect the data and transactions, and keep the customer information for future opt-in mailings. Weblogs and Forums - Weblogs are a popular and easy to implement way to produce fresh content for your site on a regular basis, with no special skills, equipment, or external software required. Blogs allow you to share your expertise, opinions, stories, company news, etc. and optionally allow readers to respond or even syndicate your information. Blogs allow you to dramatically improve the timeliness and relevancy of your website by helping to keep the content fresh- this not only attracts site visitors who know your organization, but the search engines like Google, which are always on the lookout for 'what's new' as they scan through millions of website pages every day. Online forums, also called 'bulletin boards', are great community builders, which translate into making your website more useful, visited, and visible to search engines. We don't recommend this for every website, but we especially like it for non-profit organizations looking to enhance member communications and disseminate information. Another good use of a commercial online bulletin board is to improve communications among sales and technical teams (cuts down on email traffic) , as well as customer help forums. Bulletin boards are completely customizable with many available options. Customer Response Forms - A relative straightforward way for website visitors to communicate with your staff - better than simply posting e-mail addresses, forms allow you route inquiries, require specific information, and collect data, including marketing information that users may wish to provide in exchange for some type of information or newsletter subscription. Dynamic forms can range from short and simple to complex multi-part applications which include photo submissions complex scripting. Image Libraries and Photo Galleries - A great way to provide visual content to visitors in a directed way. Access can be limited to those who first submit a request or desired information. There are ndmany formats available, including those that can automatically upload and resize your photos and display them in an organized way. Article Manager - Another form of content management, the CINIVA custom article manager system, has proven to be a very popular application. This feature is also effective as an e-marketing tool. Type or paste a news release into the screen form, including images if you wish, click submit, and you have now published a new release, memorandum, or even a new informational page. Pages are displayed as 'headlines' which are links to the full articles. They can be displayed by date, newest at the top, or by sequential priority that you set. A 'pull-date' removes documents that you wish to expire at a certain time. The same program allows for uploading and posting PDF-type documents - ideal for publishing detailed reports or technical specifications. Users can view and download these documents with the commonly used Adobe Reader software that is freely available to all. Ready to customize your website? Contact CINIVA at 757.499.1990 today to schedule a free consultation.
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