J.A.D.E. and LynnArea.com can offer businesses affordable, full functioning business Websites through WebCenterPlaza. What makes these Websites unique is that the business owner has complete control over the website. The business owner becomes the Webmaster of the Website never needing to pay somebody else to update the Website or add to the Website. The business owner can add hundreds of pages and pictures and lots more at no extra cost.Websites built by WebCenterPlaza.com offer these features:
Customer Contacts and Mailing Lists - As part of a complete solution, Market America includes a powerful contact management and lead tracking tool. EZContact is an on-line contact manager, complete with calendar and email list management utilities. Customers can add themselves to a site's contact list via the site's Feedback Form - no need for the site owner to receive information and retype it into another database software program.
Message Center - Market America's message center allows you to receive messages in real time on your web site. Whether it's a customer service request, or additional product information request, Market America allows your visitors to leave messages for you 24 hours a day. You can check your messages as often as you like from any browser.
User Statistics - The database is updated every night. Today's hits will be viewable tomorrow. Once contacts are in the Contact List - they can be added to one or more mailing lists. Site owners can send one email message to any or all of their Mailing Lists with the click of a few buttons. No need to buy a bulk email program or cut and paste email addresses into messages.
Site Statistics - No more trying to decipher server files and log files, no more hit counters - below are examples of the easy to understand site stats available through the System Administration Statistics Section.
Order Exporting - Like your sales statistics, orders received on your site can also be exported for use in your off-line point of sale or accounting packages. Many retail shops will find this a valuable feature for inventory tracking and product ordering. In addition, in the product catalog every item must be assigned a weight value. When a customer orders and chooses one of the UPS options - exact shipping fee is calculated on weight, locations and service chosen.
Simple Modifications - Convert simple point and click instructions to HTML, changes are made instantly and Web site is never "under construction", unnecessary to have previous programming experience or learn any programming language.
Domain Tool - Market America seamlessly integrates InterNic Domain Name Registration with your site creation process. Our system allows you to check for the availability of a domain, transfer an existing domain, and register a new domain, all from one area on our site. There is no need to leave the system to register a domain. We automatically register your domain with the proper server addresses and technical contact information.
Email Tool - Set up to 10 email aliases (sales@yoursitename.com).
Webstyles - Realizing that most business owners don't have the time to spend on the design and layout of their sites, Market America has implemented an elaborate system of webstyles, which are pre-selected layouts taken from the web's most popular and successful web sites. The webstyles database contains a wide selection of web page looks to assist businesses in the initial site building process.
Business Wizard - Market America has done extensive research in many specific businesses so that we are able to build a web site template complete with images, links, sub-pages, and text that is specific to your business or industry. Market America takes the hassle out of building a web site by allowing you to see a complete, industry specific, website in a matter of minutes. Your site can then be customized at any time later.
Image Library - Market America has cataloged hundreds of images, backgrounds and buttons for use on your site. All of our images are categorized by industry or other topic-specific categories, so that they can be easily located. In addition to Market America libraries, we allow you to upload and file your own images for use on your site. If you see an image somewhere on the web, or if you have a logo that you'd like to use on your site, simply add it to your Market America custom library.
Filing Cabinet - Access your image library, can be pass-worded to give only those people access to certain directories or files.
Upload Tool - Upload image files - 100 at a time, zip files for images, HTML files for your own pages created outside of this software and Excel Files for quick upload of Product Information.
Image Tool - Adjust and edit images and create logos, frames and more
Button/Image Creator - Market America's button builder allows you to customize your site by building buttons and text images "on the fly". Simply select the Image Editor from your Tools menu, complete the form, and you instantly have an image ready for use on your site. You can even use an existing image for the background of the new image you are creating.
Thumbnail Creator - The Market America shopping system automatically reduces your product images into thumbnails for easy display on your web site. Regardless of the original image size, all of the thumbnail images on your site will have the same width, while maintaining the original aspect ratio, resulting in a well designed look for your product pages.
Flash Page Tool - Add a Flash Page to site - choose from many templates.
Site Promotion Tool - In order to allow our clients to take full advantage of their web site, Market America has provided a site promotion tool designed to get the word out. Market America allows you to submit your site to many of the major search engines and Internet directory services including Altavista, Excite, and Infoseek. Our software is designed to make the submission process as simple as possible.
Shopping Cart - An online catalog with up to 2,000 items - without additional investment - may be used as an Online Showroom or Portfolio to display product or work - and no customer design effort required. Market America's base monthly rate allows you to include up to 2000 products in your on-line store. Your catalog software supports images, product descriptions, discount coding, custom shipping methods, tax methods and much more. Unlike other webhosting companies, Market America does not base its charges on the number of products you offer for sale. Market America charges the same monthly fee whether your site contains 20 products or 2000 products.
E-Commerce - Establish a merchant account, select which payment methods to accept, establish shipping and handling parameters, enter appropriate tax rates and check outstanding orders while being able to change any aspect of the Web site, on the fly, without having to depend on someone else.
Credit Card Processing - Market America makes it easy for you to accept credit cards for the products and/or services sold on your web site. Whether you already have an online merchant account, you want to set up your own merchant account, or you don't want a merchant account at all, Market America has a solution for you. The system is compatible with all the major on-line processors.
Chat Rooms - Open up a direct line of communication and opportunities for customer relationship management. Every Market America site owner is able to set up his or her own personal chat room for discussions of any topic. By simply clicking a button on your site, visitors will be able to enter a chat room hosted by you. You can use your chat room to chat with potential customers, employees, clients, or other affiliates 24 hours a day.
Interactive Map Feature - enable retail visitors to view a map to Web site business locations, additional capability of zooming in and out for a better look at the area, obtain detailed driving directions to the Web site business location by entering current addresses rather than giving directions over the telephone.
Technical Support - receive complete online and toll-free Technical Support, if there are questions on how the site operates. The Technical Support Department will assist with the Web site modification process and walk through the process step-by-step if necessary.
WebMaster Joe will help the business owner through the process and even handle the customization of the new Website. Cost of the Websites vary based on customization. There is also a $50/mo. Membership Hosting Fee which allows the business owner to access all the features and covers the hosting of the Website and Unlimited Tech Support.
Contact Webmaster Joe for more details at (617)548-4180.