Website Design Features

Assist Technology standard websites all come with a content management system which allow you the ability to change content and post listings on the fly. Not only will you get a custom engaging design but we can even develop special applications to help you accomplish your goals.

How We Work

We work on understanding your: business, market, customers, competition, budget and needs.
We create a scope of work.
We create content/graphic placement, functionality development mock-ups.
We tweak and re-work until we've accomplished the scope.
We fire it up.
You can have us host and maintain backups and other administration functions if you desire.
We constantly work on new functionality projects.

Other Things We Do

We also do eCommerce, complex web "applications," search engine market research/optimization/management and website hosting.

Standard and Optional Website Features:

Sharp Custom Designs	Awesome Functionality
Site Administration

Sharp Custom Designs #

Professional Layouts

There is nothing worse than having an artist design the graphics first and then put things where they have to fit. We do things a bit backwards than the run of the mill designers. We start with content placement first, then functionality, and finally the custom graphics are placed so that you get your message and brand out to your end users correctly.

We have access to 30,000+ design and template elements which can be fully customized with your graphics or ours.

Rich Element Modules

We can embed small areas with:

Anything - let's get creative
Newsletter sign up
Category navigation
HTML Snippets
Latest Posts to the Forum
Most Popular Entries List
Most Recent Entries List
Top Downloads
Polls
Upcoming Events
YouTube List

Rich Site Navigation

We can create: vertical, horizontal, dropdown, top, bottom, sub menus and breadcrumbs or quick link navigation.

Eye Candy

Engage your customers using the latest technologies.

Flash elements
JQuery tools
MooTools
Custom graphics

Content Separated from Design

We create customized templates and cascading style sheets that will keep the design of the site consistent and easily maintainable in the future.

Multi-Language Capable

We can create multi-language sites all managed within the same content manager which allows your visitors to view site text and captions in their own language, and automatically rendering date and number formatting according to the visitor's needs.

Search Engine Friendly

Each page can have it's own title and description that shows up differently when someone finds you doing an internet search like Google.

We also have friendly 'flat' URLs automatically created so deep level pages appear to the search engines as top level pages.

Awesome Functionality #

Word-like Content Editor

Easily edit content without any HTML knowledge.

Create tables and lists
Edit text, format colors and size and alignment
Undo or Redo
Insert links, images and videos
Embed flash and other media

Standard and Customized Applications

We have standard out-of-the-box application we have built or we customize and/or develop anything.

Resource, File and Document Management

Have a central repository for all kinds of images, documents, videos, etc. to be reused throughout the site.

Lock down various resource folders to only be accessed by secure members without user authorization.

Check in/out, versioning & rollback support.

General Purpose Listings Application Pages

Create Articles, Knowledge-base, File list, Photo galleries, or any general listings.
Easy-to-navigate paged listing with configurable ordering.
Manage few or large number of listing entries with option to include/exclude entries from site menu.
Create rich content entries with file downloads, photos, and online video/audio presentation (flv, mp3).
Customize listing layout and style using templates.
Team collaboration & workflow support (check in/out, versioning, rollback & approval).
Embed selected listing entries on any page.

Multimedia playlists

Easily add a playlist of audio, video and image files.
Embed your playlists in any page with a built-in media player.
Share down-loadable pod casts and video blogs.

Subscriber / Newsletter Application

We can create sign-up forms or simple newsletter sign-ups.
Automated Opt-in/Opt-out legal requirements.
Upload lists
Send out mailings to all, groups, or just one.
Pages can be setup to only be seen by subscribers.

Calendar Based Blog / Journal / News / Events

Create News, Journals, Blogs, or any calendar-based postings.
Create rich content postings with file downloads, photos, and online video/audio presentations (flv, mp3).
Customize listing layout and style using templates.
Team collaboration & workflow support (check in/out, versioning, rollback & approval).
Embed latest postings on any page

Discussion / Idea Sharing / Forum Applications

We can setup a forum and let users communicate with each other, discuss issues or share ideas.

Support Application

Manage support and other request types using our rapid response support system.

Create new tickets online.
Automated received responses.
Your customer and staff can review tickets.
Status changes can be viewed.
Closed tickets can be reviewed later.

Site Administration #

Online Administration

Manage the content management system through your web browser. End users can upload files as well as manage page content.

Flexible User Managment & Security

Add multiple, secure members’ areas to your website
Provide online registration for new users.
Assign a user to any members’ areas (channels) with specific role.

Workflow

You can define a workflow process that ensures that new or modified content passes through a process of approval before going live.

Versioning

The content management system supports different versions of the same content. Every time a user modifies content, a copy is created in the database. The old version is not deleted and all current and previous versions can be rolled back.

File Manager

Users can delete, copy, move any kind of files used for downloads or website content construction. They can easily be organized into folders.