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Web
Development, Design & Creation
When developing the architecture of your Web Site, your developer has to
understand what it's underlying objectives are. This
means understanding your industry and the goals of your
business. Each decision must be based upon who your
company is and who your customers are.
The look should
be a catalyst to drive business forward and should never hold
it back. We determine what your objectives are and, using
design and technology, evoke emotion from your clients, and
meet their needs immediately.
Consulting
dotLaunch's web consulting services are founded on the single principle of helping companies increase their revenues through their online efforts.
Our extensive online and offline business experience, coupled with a fully integrated team of developers and online marketers, allows us to apply proven business and marketing practices to the web.
All of our consulting services begin with the analysis or review of your overall business strategies, only then,
do we proceed to evaluate your existing or proposed online business activities and generate recommendations that rest on a solid business foundation
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Industry
Applications & Customized Software
dotLaunch works hard to
create custom developed websites just for your industry.
We have a number of applications we've created to handle
whatever your business needs may be. Some of these
include:
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Real Estate
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Commerce
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Restaurants
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Finance
To see a listing of some
of our exclusive Web Software, visit our Applications
Page for more information and demonstrations.
Web Design
If the design is only for design's sake, chances are you'll distract users from your products and services by hindering performance and usability as elaborate graphics and plug-ins take time to load, actually driving users away.
Your needs are very different if you're Giorgio Armani than if you are a B2B procurement site for the chemical industry. In some cases visual extravagance is essential to maintaining a company's brand image. In others such extravagance would be merely annoying at best.
If flashing graphics and pop-up windows aren't functional elements--that is, elements that add value and ultimately result in revenue in some way-- then it is better to keep things simple.
Your site's design must also help users browse your site and take it in. One way to achieve this goal is by carefully organizing a "design hierarchy" or "drill down" for your site, breaking down each page into concise sections and arranging them in order of importance, so that users can find what they want more easily. Consistent nomenclature and iconography are equally as important.
dotLaunch's team of professionals in the areas of design, marketing and programming will give your company a web site that helps increase your revenues and please your audience.
Please view our portfolio
to see examples of clients that have entrusted
dotLaunch to help them build their Internet presence.
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Government Compliance
The World Wide Web has dramatically changed the way that federal agencies disseminate and collect information. Computer users from all around the world have instant access to federal agencies any time of day. Not only do agencies save countless dollars in printing and mailing costs, they also receive and process accurate information much more quickly and efficiently.
Under the authority of section 508 of the Rehabilitation
Act, the Access Board (or 'Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board') has enacted regulations setting forth accessibility standards for federal agencies' electronic and information technology, including web pages. (1) 36
C.F.R. pt. 1194.
This document is designed to help agencies evaluate whether their Internet pages are accessible to people with disabilities. The Access Board's web accessibility standards appear at the beginning of each of the substantive sections, below, and form the basis for most of the questions. A few of the questions are designed to suggest ways that agencies should make their programs accessible, even where there are barriers on existing agency web pages.
We have created an ADA
Compliance Checklist for you, to help you answer
the questions needed to start the process of developing your
government site. You may also read the World
Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
In addition, you may visit any of the following sites to check
your newly developed or 'in development' government site for
ADA Compliance:
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Bobby
(An ADA Tester)
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Lift
(An ADA Tester)
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Lynx
Viewer (Use this simulation of the Lynx
Viewer, a text-based browser)
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DeJa
VU (See what your pages look like in older
browser versions)
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Competencies
dotLaunch's page design competencies include:
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World class creative design capabilities
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HTML and DHTML coding and page construction.
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Flash Development and animation.
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Java and Javascript interactivity.
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Audio and Video streaming.
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Expertise in PHP,
ASP, Dreamweaver, CGI, Perl, SQL and more.
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Full e-commerce and database
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Programming
Our experienced Application Development team will keep your business competitive. dotLaunch Technologies develops custom server-side and database-driven applications for any web development
need using today's preferred scripting languages.
dotLaunch Technologies has also developed or partnered with other software firms to bring you the most advanced industry-specific web applications in existence.
We offer the following industry-specific and broad-use applications:
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- e-Mail Contact Management
- e-Commerce/Shopping carts
- shipping applications
- employee reporting
- project reporting
- database driven newsletters
- database driven catalogs
- RFP's/RFQ's
- real Estate
- travel
- live help
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- human Resources
- financial calculators
- database driven support pages
- customer account lookup/update/schedule
- photo galleries
- project managers
- sign-up programs
- online store/commerce applications
- membership driven services
- data collections
- searching of databases
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Re-Design
With over 10 million web sites competing to keep customers, secure new ones and increase sales, your company must constantly, revise, re-position and incorporate new Internet technologies to remain viable in the world of e-Business.
To see how your web site measures up, ask yourself the following questions:
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Regardless
of the number of visitors that come to your site, what percentage of them are turning into customers?
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What is the average number of pages that a user views when they come to your web site?
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What is your cost of acquiring a new customer through traditional marketing efforts and how much through your Web site?.
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Have your sales to existing customers increased since you published your web site?
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Have you seen any reduction in operating or marketing expenses one year after your site went up?
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Have you visited your competitor's sites recently to see how they compare to your web site?
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Can a visitor to your site find out in 30 seconds or less what your products and services are? Can they readily see what is your competitive advantage?
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Does your web site allow you to collect visitor information, and are you able to easily and periodically send Email updates to all of them?
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If you chose to advertise your site online today, would you feel comfortable spending thousands of dollars in online or offline
advertising/promotion?
A significant percentage of projects executed by
dotLaunch involve re-deployment (redesign) of web sites.
What qualifies dotLaunch as your web development partner for re-design?
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dotLaunch
has all the skill sets necessary to re-deploy your site. Programming (back end) and marketing skills that are essential to the success of a web site are not part of most Web developers arsenals.
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dotLaunch's professional team consists not only of Web developers, it includes successful business people whose top concern is to insure that your Web investment becomes a profit center.
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dotLaunch
has built and re-designed hundreds of web sites for medium and small businesses and a large number of our clients are from referrals.
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dotLaunch's customer-centric approach coupled with our
extensive program management system allow us to complete projects in timely way.
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eCommerce dotLaunch
has the experience to meet all of your eCommerce needs..
Our Shopping Cart boasts hearty features such, yet is so simple to setup and manage, that
it works for everyone. To learn more about our shopping cart software,
please Contact Us.
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