The modern web offers many plugins or widgets which may benefit your new website. Here is a small sample of what is available today:
These interactive tools allow your visitors to calculate for themselves various numbers relating to their personal or business finances. These can be useful for any business site that is related to finance or where customers usually lease the product or service.
Engage your users, gather useful information and establish a deeper connection by allowing them to take a poll or survey right on your site.
If the nature of your business or organization has lots of news updates or insider information, an email newsletter campaign may be right for you. The Web Rock Star newsletter method allows you to see who opened your email as well as many other usefull statistics. All of this in an easy to manage system. It also has a easy to use register and de-register functionality for users.
If you publish blog posts or entries on a regular basis, social media sharing is more than likely something which will benefit your site. Allow vistors to share your site content withing their own social media profiles such as Facebook and Twitter.
If your company has it’s own social media presence we can integrate a Facebook ‘Like Box’ for your Facebook fan page. If you have a Twitter account we can tap directly into the feed and display the first few ‘tweets’ on your website. These are just a few examples of what is possible.
Make your site more lively and visually appealing with a scolling banner. Typically used on home pages, this adds more visuals to your website while highlight important information. The animating effect can also make your site stand out and grabs people’s attention.
Stand alone comment systems on websites have some advantages and some disadvantages. Cross site hosted commenting is the more modern way of allowing visitors to comment on your site content. Users create one profile on a cross site hosted commenting service and they can use that profile accross all sites that support that service. This ease of use makes it much easier for them to engage your site. These services also allow them to post rich media such as embeded video from YouTube or pictures into the comment stream. A powerful administration panel allows you to moderate comments and determine what content can be posted within comments.
Do you have a live event happening relating to your business or organization? Web Rock Star offers the capability to allow website visitors to post comments about the event in real time. This is analogous to instant messenger chat while regular comments are analogous to email.
Would you like to engage with you clients in real time as they are currently visiting your website? With today’s web this is possible. Using your work or home computer and an easy to install application you can talk with visitors in an ‘instant messenger’ style.
Maybe your visitors are busy and would prefer to have an in depth discussion at a later time. Having a contact form embeded in your website is faster, easier and more secure then having vistors load up their email and enter in your email manually. I can also set up mandatory fields so users must enter critical information before they can send the message.
Would you like to see how many visitors are coming to your site as well as what part of the world they are coming from? Would you like to know what search terms users are using to find your site? Maybe you would like to know what links people have clicked in order to get to your site? You can find all of this out as well as a lot more with the analytics installed on the websites Web Rock Star develops.
If you have any rich media you like your website visitors to be able to download Web Rock Star websites support this functionality.
If you have a video on Youtube or a music playlist you would like to embed into your website, Web Rock Star can do this no problem.
Allowing your website visitors to purchase gift certificates online can boost the sales of your business. An easy to manage system is also in place which allows you to track the certificates and prevent fraudulent ones from being made.
Make it easy for your clients to find your place of business. A Google map window can show users exactly where you are located in an interactive map.
If you are planning a large event the registration and ticket purchasing process can be cumbersome and time consuming. Many tools are available to manage the registration and money flow. Web Rock Star can make your next big event a lot less stressfull.
QR codes are increasingly being used in all types of print mediums. Everything from billboards to newspapers to business cards. A QR code allows a scanner (typically on a smart phone) to go directly to a website page after it has been scanned. If your organization produces lots of print material, then QR codes may be a valuable technology to utilize. Let Web Rock Star’s experience with QR codes close the bridge between your print and online presence.