In addition to the Internet and Intranet services described below, we offer general consulting services (planning, business consulting, technical consulting, project management) key to the success of any Internet or Intranet project.

• Designing and building new web sites
• Redesigning, expanding and improving existing web sites
• Integrating web sites and databases
• Developing customized or advanced applications or features
• Programming in JAVA, Perl and other CGI languages
• Improving web content production processes
• Marketing research
• Marketing and promoting web sites
• Monitoring and assessing web site usage
• Hosting web sites and eBusiness applications
• Technical support

	Designing and Building New Web Sites

We offer a full range of web site development expertise and services including:

• Overall web site information architecture
• Web page design and layout
• Graphic design and editing
• HTML programming and editing
• Converting existing documents (including wordprocessing, ASCII, page layout formats) into web pages
• Converting graphic content source files to web graphics (gif, jpeg)
• Scanning graphics and photos

	Redesigning & Expanding Web Sites

Successful web sites continuously improve and expand, adding value and taking advantage of new Internet capabilities and opportunities. Wherever you are in your web site development and operation, we can help you assess your current level of success, and develop and implement a program for improving and expanding your web site's results.

	Integrating Web Sites and Databases

Integrating web site pages and functions with databases is becoming increasingly strategic. Database integration allows transactions and other processes (e.g. comment and survey forms processing) to be fully automated and linked to internal business process applications (e.g., contact database). It can also provide end-user access to data entry, search and query through standard web browsers, thereby facilitating rapid deployment of database applications at greatly reduced cost. We can help your organization collect important data through your web site and effectively use this data through integration with your existing and new database applications (e.g. marketing intelligence, customer mailing lists and profiles).

	Advanced Applications & Features

Interactive web site capabilities -- forms, surveys, membership systems, product or service specification and ordering, customized analytical responses to user input, etc. -- can greatly enhance the value of your web site to your organization and its web site users. We design, develop and implement these advanced capabilities quickly and cost-effectively, using our own high-productivity development tools.

	Java & CGI Programming

Using Java and other Internet programming languages, we can create automated or special features for your web pages including: animated rollovers, button effects, numerical calculations, windows management and navigational aids.

	Improving Content Production Processes

In many organizations, after some initial experience with web content production, it becomes clear that the processes and standards underlying the original content creation, storage and later conversion for the web site, must be re- optimized for multi-channel (print, CD-ROM, Internet/Web) publishing and delivery. Some pages on web sites have to change frequently (announcements, events, etc.), taxing an organizations ability to keep up to date. We implement practical, low-cost improvements to help you significantly reduce the time, cost and skills required for content production and updating.

	Marketing Research

Marketing research is often essential to determine what is being offered by competitors, government, and other resources on the Internet. We can do this research to help you plan and improve your web site by:

• adding value to your own web site content through links to other web sites with related or supporting information
• determining other web sites which can possibly link to your site
• letting you know what the competition is doing

	Marketing & Promoting Web Sites

Once you've launched your web site, the challenge is to attract your target audiences to visit and explore it. We list our client web sites in hundreds of the most popular Internet directories and search engines. These listings are submitted not once, but four times over one year to ensure the listings go through successfully and accurately.

	Monitoring & Assessing Web Site Usage

A critical part of web site management is gathering and reporting usage statistics and user feedback that is necessary for evaluating success and prioritizing future improvement and expansion. Your web site's real-time monitoring capability can also become an important source of general market intelligence for your organization. We build usage statistics and user feedback mechanisms into client web sites to provide a strong foundation of valuable information for future web site decisions.

	Hosting Web Sites & Applications

Great Connections® hosts client web sites and applications on reliable, high-performance, dedicated servers that sit right on the Internet backbone. We can host and manage your entire site, or just sub-components and special applications which are seamlessly integrated with your main site.

Our hosting services are reserved for clients for whom we have developed web sites and applications. What does this mean to you?

• Higher performance (speed) and reliability
• Higher security
• Responsive and capable technical support
• Fewer problems and headaches

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	Technical Support

We can provide technical support for your organization in any of the areas included under our Internet & Intranet Services. For example:

• Authoring or converting text and graphic files for web pages
• Selecting and using software for the web, ftp, electronic mail and newsgroups (e.g. Netscape)
• Integrating your web forms data with your databases

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