Interactive Components

Keep your home page fresh and up-to-date with a variety of options:

Dynamically Generated Content: Lead users to specific information within your site using “teaser” information, which is automatically pulled from another page within the site.

Expandable Text Groups: Conserve space on your page with condensed descriptions under a headline. The entire description will appear when the headline is clicked. This works especially well for displaying FAQs, testimonials or articles.

One-Click Publishing: Collect free content and expand your site. Site moderators review user submissions and publish them to the site with one-click.

Random Text Display: Display testimonials or tips from a database in a specified area of the page. New information can be set to appear each time the page is visited.

Syndicated News: Offer daily, maintenance-free updates by posting syndicated news stories (RSS Feeds) on your site. Idea Bank can research a news resource that is appropriate for your company.

Tickers: Keep the latest information at your client’s fingertips with scrolling ticker-bars from sources such as NASDAC, ESPN and others.

Weather: Showcase current weather conditions on any page of your site.

Foster camaraderie between people with similar interests, disseminate information, or encourage communication between you and your clients with these custom enhancements.

Ask-a-Question: Allow users to ask a new question through an online form sent by email to your FAQ “manager” who reviews and replies to the email. This option can help expand site information as the question and answer can both be posted on your site.

Blog: Communicate by posting regular entries with one-way blogging. Two-way blogging gives users the ability to comment on each entry.

Forum: Allow users to share information in an online community.

Polling: Conduct online polling and give your users the ability to view the results in chart form.

Social Networking: Create a portal to current social networking such as MySpace, FaceBook and Ning, or create your own social networking system on your site.

Product Integration: Incorporate in-house systems or other outside resources into your site.

Provide resources and deliver important information to your audience using these features, some of which incorporate database integration.

Database Incorporation: Use our simple process to keep your website databases current. Pages on your site will pull from these databases so the latest information will always be available online.

Dealer Locator: Allow users to find “dealers” and view locations by searching via zip code or city.

Directory: Create an easy way for users to search your employee database by name or department.

File Upload: Allow users to fill in a form and  upload files to share securily, or with your online community.

Interactive Calendar: Showcase your events with this interactive graphic and text listing.

Job Postings: Post jobs with descriptions in this section of the site, and titles will be automatically added to the listing on the main page, with a link to the details.

News: with Archiving System: Publish your latest news with this easy one-step system. When a new article is posted our system will: date it, place the title on the main News page, and automatically archive older articles in the process.

Postings by “Users”: Stay connected with your customers and collect relative information for your site by providing an area where users can post information.

Postings by “managers”: Allow specified “managers” to securely submit events and information that can be reviewed by the “administrator” and published with one click of a button.

Systems Integration: Set up online services that are integrated with in-house or third party systems.

Idea Bank can help you sell items online, from simple PayPal exchanges to complex store structures.

PART 1 - Payment Processing Options:

Online selling begins with a secure and reliable way of exchanging money. Certain services are required to allow credit card funds to be automatically deposited into your bank account. Idea Bank will recommend the services that are necessary for your online store payment processing:

• GeoTrust SSL Certificate
• A Static IP Address
• Authorize.net account
• Merchant Bank Account

PART 2 - Online Transactions

Online Store : Sell a wide variety of materials, from downloadable, shipped, free, subscription-based and free trial based. Using a web-enabled merchant account (for all selected credit/debit cards) or online check acceptance (with approved application) our store ensures security, and you’ll enjoy competitive rates on merchant account fees with real-time payment processing.

Online Payment: Idea Bank can set up simple payment procedures using an online form and the appropriate payment processor if you require payment transactions such for:

• Donations
• Online Bill-payment
• Registrations
• Reservations
• and more!

A picture is worth a thousand words! Consider adding flare to your site with one or more of our media solutions.

Audio: Provide sound effects or playable audio clips on your site. Idea Bank can prepare clips and embed them into designated areas of your site.

Interactive Presentation: Use Flash to make a visual impact! Immediately describe your products or services, explain a process with interactive learning methods, link to regional information from an interactive map, or animate your homepage banner and navigation system. You can even incorporate video clips.

Idea Bank Photo Library: Place professional photos on your web pages for stunning impact using photos from Idea Bank’s extensive library or hire us to take photos or create custom illustrations. We can also enhance problem photos that you already possess.

Interactive Online Tour: Create a virtual tour using video and/or Flash animation.

Agency-produced video: We can produce videos from start to finish with services that include: concept, storyboards, script writing, computer development, art direction, audio production, final editing and digital storage.

Convert client-provided video: Idea Bank can convert your digital video from most any format so that it may be utilized online.

Mini-Photo Gallery: Use small galleries on any page of your site for your portfolio, tour, or products showcase. Photos are given fixed positions and include a fading pop-up feature to show larger images with captions. Maintenance is a breeze!

Photo Gallery: Show off photos with this easy-to-maintain gallery. Allow managers to upload and manage photos and have various back-end controls including the ability to create new albums. Allows users to upload and share photos. This feature-rich gallery also allows users to order photos from your site through third party photo services such as ShutterFly and Flickr.

Podcasts: Allow users to subscribe to and download regularly scheduled audio or audio/visual podcasts.

Slideshow: Create a slideshow on any page with easy photo maintenance capabilities.

Webcam Setup: Give users special access with live video showing progress of a construction site, or virtually viewing an event that may otherwise be logistically impossible to attend. Idea Bank will research infrastructure and recommend hardware, software and implementation.

Video: Engage users with high-quality video, from product demonstrations and tours to television commercials and presentations. Idea Bank can create a video from start-to-finish, or can implement existing footage. We can also extend the reach of your video by loading it onto YouTube or incorporating it into a banner ad.

YouTube: Whether you would ike a branded channel or would just like to post videos on YouTube, Idea Bank can assist you. We will upload your video to YouTube and capture the resulting code to then embed the video onto your website

Make navigating your site and finding information intuitive and fast by integrating some or all of the beneficial options below.

Accessibility: Make your site accessible to those with visual disabilities. The Section 508 law applies to all Federal agencies but has become more widespread and could be useful on your site.

Alert Scrollbar : Alert users about important news or red-hot specials with a scrolling text bar that appears on any page of your choosing, and disappears when not in use.

Location Mapping: Utilize Google® or Yahoo® mapping services to provide interactive directions to your location and show nearby amenities and attractions.

Page Translation: Offer one-click page translations on each web page utilizing Google technologies.

Print Page: Provide users with a printer-friendly formatted page with this link.

Quicklinks: Allows users to access information by choosing from a dropdown menu.

Save As PDF: With one click, your users can save your HTML page as a PDF on their computer.

Send to a Friend: Offer a way for users to send your webpage to a friend.

Site Search: Help users quickly find the information they’re looking for while limiting the scope of searches to your website only.

Styling Controls: Allow users to control the theme of your website.

Idea Bank can integrate a variety of online forms to make your site work for you.

Standard Forms: Provide the ability for users to contact you or collect other information using a short, one-page form with dropdown menus, radio buttons and/or text fields. The information is then sent to a client-specified email address.

Advanced Forms: The following can contain dropdown, radio buttons or text fields and can consist of multiple pages, one page tied to a database, an I-Connect account, or an online merchant account.

Choose the level of protection you need with the following options.

CSV Data Backup: Set up a back-up system so that your data is saved as a csv file on a regular basis

Encryption: Set up a password protected area where content can be shared securely on an external server.

Password Protection: Share sensitive information with a select few using a one password system, or by creating a variety of "roles" for your user groups, with each “role” having a different level of accessibility.

User Profile - database interaction: Allow users to log in and update their profile: such as email and street address changes within the database.

Virtual Login: This password authentication process allows users to log into another site from a page on your site.

Make navigating your site and finding information intuative and fast by integrating some or all of the beneficial options below.

Accessibility: Make your site accessible to those with visual disabilities. The Section 508 law applies to all Federal agencies but has become more widespread and could be useful on your site. Price based on size of site.

Mapping: Utilize Yahoo® mapping to provide interactive directions to your location and show nearby amenities and attractions.

Translation: Offer one-click page translations on each web page utilizing Google technologies.

Printability: Provide users with a printer-friendly version.

Quicklinks: Allows users to access information by choosing from a dropdown menu.

Save As PDF: With one click, your users can save your HTML page as a PDF on their computer. Final cost determined by precise details of project.

Send to a Friend: Offer a way for users to send your webpage to a friend. ($100 using sharethis.com or $750 for custom form with ability to email to friend)

Site Search: Help users quickly find the information they’re looking for while limiting the scope of searches to your website only.

Styling Controls: Allow users to control the theme of your website. Pricing to be determined by all variables and size of site.

For more information, see also:

• I-Connect: mass email marketing
• Search Strategies: Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and Search Engine Optimization (SEO)