Bells and Whistles

Set yourself apart from your competitors by giving life to your web site through additional functionality that is usually only found on expensive, custom web sites.

Industry Web Host Semi-Custom web sites offer any of the following Bells and Whistles:

Contact Form

Publishing your email address on the internet welcomes spambots to add you to their mailing lists of unmentionable items.  Your customer queries get buried in spam.  A contact form is the answer to provide an easy way for people to contact you by email, yet not get tied up by spambots.

Private Pages

Your semi-custom site can offer private pages to people who have an account.  For example, if you offer tips, news and how-to's to your customers, you can make it only available to them.

Most Popular Items

Automatically determine and show links to your most popular pages right on your home page.  This takes all the guess work out of determining which pages to select to entice customers to explore your site.

Latest News

Automatically show your latest news items on your home page.

Map

Include a map to your location without having potential customers leave your site.  Having it elsewhere is like telling customers to ask the people in the store next door on how to buy your product.

Pick a Testimonial

Have different testimonial references on your home page.  This keeps your site fresh as well as offer different reasons why potential customers should select you - each time they see your home page.

This functionality can be used for other purposes, like quotes, jokes, etc.

On-Line Poll

Have on-line polls and running results available on your site.  Find out what your visitors are thinking.

Newsfeeds

Have newsfeeds appearing on your site - just like Yahoo.  This can offer great content and make your site more valuable to customers.  Give us a call to find out more.

User History

Provide users with the path they've followed to get to a specific page.  For sites with many pages, this is a great feature to offer customers an alternative way to navigate.

User Registration

Have your customers give you their name and email address for distribution lists and/or other uses.

Newsletters

You are planning on emailing out a newsletter, promotional material or any other email distribution, it is strongly recommended to have a newsletter capability in your site.  If anyone indicates your email was a spam, their ISP might be quick to report you to the spam police.  

If you have the ability for people to take themselves off of your distribution list, then the spam police will likely treat the complaint as a crank (unless they are flooded with complaints).

So what can the spam police really do to you?  Is it better to just ask for forgiveness?  Absolutely not!  Your site could be blacklisted.  Blacklisting can stop your email from reaching its destination - never to be received by your customers and potential customers.  And getting off the blacklist isn't that easy to do.

In addtion, most hosting companies (including Industry Web Host) do not want to be associated with spammers.  There is the "noble" reason of not associating with spammers, but in addition, hosting a blacklisted site could impact other sites.  So you wouldn't want your site hosted by anyone that allows spammers either.

This functionality is just about ready to be rolled out.

Other Functionality

Other functionality is being added.  If you are looking for something that is not here, give us a call.  It could be ready to roll-out.

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