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Client-Specific Modules & Web Applications
We're users creating solutions for users

Zee Designs offers you award-winning, top-talented professionals under one virtual roof. A powerhouse of diverse abilities, right at your fingertips. If you need a specific solution for managing your business, we can build it.

Do you need custom-designed applications? How many times have you struggled with software applications that just don't fit your needs, but it's the only thing you know or have? From the simplest tasks to the more complicated, we can assist you with the development, testing, and training of solutions created just for you.

• Zee Designs' provides programming and database development services for companies throughout North America.
   
• We specialize in internet, client/server and intranet applications. Our software experience includes several technologies. We utilize both industry-standard and cutting-edge technologies in our solutions. Technologies include PHP 5, MySQL, JavaScript, Ajax, semantic HTML, CSS, the Git version control system, shell scripting, and more. No matter what technology we put to use, we always strive to maximize usability, speed, security, and scalability.
   
• We design, develop and produce custom, client-specific modules and web applications. Some of these interact with the client's website and some are intranet only; assisting the client to manage their business-related data.
   
• Let us provide you with a technical analysis of your website's dynamic needs to see how we can help.

What's in it for us? The joy of hearing the client exclaim, "You've made my job so much easier! I used to have to do this all by hand! Now I have answers to queries I couldn't do with my Excel spreadsheet."

Some of the specific solutions we have created include:

• Shareholders:  built for a company that is funded by private investments, this web application . . .
  • Tracks all shareholder information including investments; designations; account changes; log-in data for the secure, investor-specific website; and who the account was originated by.
  • Option Document management including create, edit verbiage and convert.
  • Certificate management including create, reallocate, forward splits, and printing of.
  • Reports including Certificates by Shareholder, IRA Investments, Notify by Email, Originated By, Shares by Share Price, Shareholder Investments, and Verified Documents.
  • Voting Online Feature
     
• Bidding Opportunites:  built for a client who manages a group of contractors who can post bidding opportunities which can be viewed on the client's website. Additionally, the opportunities are automatically emailed to the client's interested vendors.
• Vendors:  built for two clients who manage a specific group of members.
• Trainings:  built for a client who is a Canine Coach and teaches agility, behavior and obedience. This web application . . .
  • Offers a secure, online registration service for students who then
    • Sign up for a dog-training class
    • Sign up for AKC CGC® Certification Testing
    • View my dog-training class schedule
    • View my account details
    • View dog, Add a dog
  • Provides a way for the client to
    • View & Manage Class Signups
    • Create & Manage Class Schedules
       
• WWLL:  The World-Wide Labyrinth Locator has been designed to be an easy-to-use database of labyrinths around the world. This web application allows the public to submit their data which the admin then can validate, categorize, edit and manage almost 40 elements of related data. The related website offers advanced search features and a beautiful, printable display of search results data.

These examples are just a sample of the many ways we have customized solutions for others. Contact us to let us know what we can do for you.

It’s about saving you significant time and money.

Thank you for considering Zee Designs for your most recent website design, development, and production. It is our sincere pleasure to speak with you today and present to you options for building your website. We can offer you an affordable website package customized to suit your business needs that includes the dynamic power of an online content management system.

As business owners ourselves, we recognize the marketing challenges that occur when growing a client base — which means with us your projects are in the best hands. For over 20 years, we have been assisting businesses with their web, print, and marketing needs. It is from these experiences that we present you with the features and benefits of working with us to create this very important marketing tool — your website.

When it comes to your project needs, we're dedicated to transforming your ideas into a premium interactive solution using intelligent technology!

We look forward to a mutually beneficial relationship that empowers your business’s success. Please contact me if you have any questions along the way; I welcome the opportunity to speak with you.

Sincerely,

Zee Marie
CEO, Interactive Director

The Website Pages module provides easy editing and formatting of text on pages and allows for

• Up to ten images for each website page
• Automatic copyright date update
• Page-specific meta data
• Site-wide specific meta data
• Extensive link options including to attachments, emails, websites with multiple target options
• Individual user permissions feature-specific, page specific, site specific
• Pretty URLs

Other options include:

• A to Z Directory - lists all the pages on the website
• Downloadables Directory - lists all the documents on the website
• Externals Directory - list all the links to external websites

In recent years, Web technology has become more interactive. People have become accustomed to being more active in interfacing with websites, and our Add-on features are designed to make people want to return to your website again and again to participate and be entertained.

FEATURES:

• Audio & Video streaming - Podcasts, audio announcements or sales messages, music videos, training audios or videos, and more are possible with this feature.
• Blogs - Post and allow comments. Blogging is used by some of the biggest companies these days for promoting products and building a loyal fan base.
• Discussion Forums - Post topics and let people post their views and have discussions in "not quite real time."
• Live Chat - Let people interact real time.

These features are within the reach of all websites now, rather than being just the domain of the large companies, and Zee Designs makes it affordable.

A great website starts with graphic design with a winning look. We will use your artwork or create our own including:

• Element Art
  • stock
  • custom designs
  • animation
• Photo Elements
  • Professional photo shoots specializing in people, interior and exterior architecture, or things such as products
  • Scanning
  • Photo touchup, enhancement and manipulation
  • Ready for print or web applications
  • Stock photography
• Flash Elements (See Multimedia)

We add easy navigation, and content that gets your message across. Then we add special applications that delight you, your staff, and your website visitors, with their functionality.

Customers can enjoy having custom eNews templates designed with their brand-able artwork, giving their email messages a cohesive look with the rest of their print and online media. The Template Wizard walks the user through simplified steps of stylizing their eNews blast. Blasts can be previewed, saved as drafts, and sent to the entire mailing list or selected groups of subscribers. One-on-one, personalized training is provided to get you comfortable with the process and ensures you will be sending that first email blast out with a smile on your face!

Learn more about ZD-eNews™.

Do you intend to sell products and/or services online? We’ve learned that no two shopping experiences, whether for products, services or both, are alike. We continually research and implement the best, customizable solutions for your business order taking, merchant processing, and order management.

WE PROVIDE:

• Ecommerce shopping solutions for multiple items
• Secure order forms for single items or services
• Donations — often used by non-profit organizations
   
• Catalog development and management
• Multiple stores
• Online storefront development and maintenance
• Product management
• Order and secure credit card processing
• Order processing including tracking stages and printing packing slips
• Secure credit card transaction
• Shopping Basket

ZEE DESIGNS IS READY TO DEVELOP YOUR SOLUTION
Running your business is stressful enough without having to worry about your online storefront. Zee Designs gets your e-commerce site up quickly and easily! Our
e-commerce  solutions integrate reliable servers, excellent network connectivity, and easy storefront development, and maintenance. With Zee Designs as your
e-commerce provider, you can focus on running your business instead of running your e-commerce server.

Need customization? Our programmers can develop modules to suit your specific needs. Contact us for more information regarding your specific ecommerce needs.

Rather than offering a plain email link for clients to use to contact you, Zee Designs can design a form that will capture all the information that you require to serve your clients (or potential clients) more efficiently. They fill in the blanks, the email is sent, and you have all pertinent data. We build in a security feature that makes it impossible for the mail links to be picked up by spam bots, so your email addresses are safe. Choices include:

• Custom Forms that may follow up the original email with a pre-designed thank you, error, or courtesy reply if desired.
• Dynamic Forms that may follow up the original email with a pre-designed thank you, error, courtesy reply and is connected to and interacts with a database to retrieve pertinent information.

See Contact Us and its submenus for samples of how this feature can be used.

Whether site-wide or for specific topics, Zee Designs will provide you with access to our custom and powerful Content Management System (CMS) that allows you, your staff, or our production assistant to quickly make updates to the content of your website. Bottom line? Using the ZD-CMS™ can save you a significant amount of time and money.

• Content can be managed by a single user or several users
• Privileges can be set for multiple users to have access only to specific content they each need to manage
• Several common content modules are available including those made for announcements & news, articles, bibliography, calendar, downloadable documents, gallery, glossary of terms, personnel, useful links, and many more
• Several customizable web applications are available for managing advertisers & vendors, ecommerce, education, mail lists, eNews, memberships, shareholders, and more
• ZD-CMS™ solutions* are available for purchase by individual module, as small business packages, and as a complete solution for any sized business

You can tell the difference between a “cookie cutter” site style and one that was custom created specifically with the client’s needs in mind. When creating a custom site style for our customers, our focus is:

• KISS — Keep It Streamlined Sweetheart
• Home Page Advantage — provide sensible navigational elements and hyperlinks that make it easy to “lead” your visitors along a well thought out marketing strategy
• Prioritize what information is important to you when displaying your message(s) to your visitors
• Apply elements to your site style that visually tell visitors what you do
• Apply colors to your site style that portray an appropriate feel for your business
   

Content will be:

• presented in a clear and concise manner, avoiding clutter on all pages
• initial data will be input by us, and we’ll train your staff on how to add/edit/delete additional data
• designed using powerful and flexible standards-compliant HTML with CSS
• CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a simple mechanism for adding style to Web documents
• HTML™ - The HyperText Markup Language
• accessible to people with disabilities
• we use tools to evaluate how the website will appear to those visitors using screen readers, with color blindness, etc.

Navigation — User-friendly, expandable CSS/Javascript Navigation Menu

Usability — It is our usual practice that all sites are developed, monitored, and tested for taking into account technical limitations of low end computers, slow Internet connections, and accessibility.

Use of databases can make your website interactive. We will customize a database and applications to your specifications. Following are just a few examples.

• Join Our Mailing List
• Send Notice to Mailing List
• Web Content such as Employee Info, Articles, Records, etc.
• Membership Manager
• Events or Schedule Calendar
• Price Lists such as menus, services, etc.
• Online Database Modification including add, delete, update
• Search Module including website and database(s)
• Generate lists and reports

Safe and powerful administration of these databases allow you to collect, search, and use data easily. Zee Designs also makes sure your data is backed up for your peace of mind.