Outsourcing

Niche outsourcing is in great demand today. Even companies that choose to host their own sites and design everything in-house are discovering other, time consuming or specialized aspects of Webbery that require outside services to make any economic sense!

Take fill-in forms... please!

Everyone knows that forms are invaluable for things like collecting customer data or product orders. But while the forms themselves aren't hard to create, parsing incoming data into usable information is another matter entirely. For the webmaster, it can be a time-consuming programming chore involving C, C++, PHP, Access/ASP or Perl scripting. And if your access provider puts the kibosh on using its server for such activities, you're out of luck entirely.

That's where Webdisplays can help. For a small fee, we can process the information gathered through your site, sending it back to you as a file, a database entry or even a Web page. Best yet, the process is invisible to the user, and we can conform to any privacy policy you specify!

Much worse, is the problem of educating newbies about the limitations of their software, or how to use your website properly. Better yet, we now offer a full range of courteous customer service email services, including auto responder, form letter solutions, email screening - redirection, and subscription payment administration. Contact us today!

Don't give out your email address to strangers!

Get Me The Money!

The kings of outsourceing are currently the internet billing sites who make good use of their banking merchant accounts and secure servers to provide other websites with credit card payment services. They offer everything from one time billing, to full fledged shopping cart services, for a small percentage fee per transaction. Such pioneers as Verotel can have you set up to make money off your website, with full online accounting systems, within hours!

Let's Talk!

Message boards are an invaluable addition to any website. They allow you to build an interactive community which can greatly improve your site's usefulness and expand it's content and popularity. Setting up such scripts can be a chore, and maintaining the board is also an issue. For a great, simple remote message board, you can easily set up one at network54.com which is customized precisely to your needs. All you need to do is link to it, and administration is made simple by their polished offering. Oherwise we recommend phpBB2" which is an excellent, constantly improving freeware message board system with many advanced features and functions. We can install and customize this board (or any other cgi program) for you. We even have secure, confidential versions of similar boards which can be used for high security consultation or collaborations.

Show me the way!

Then there's Geosystem Inc.'s MapQuest site, which lets consumers create and customize their own maps, plot house-hunting excursions or get directions for driving from Detroit to Denver. Of more import to businesses is Geostystem's MapQuest Interconnect, a service for providing and delivering company-specific interactive maps. Say a business wants to display all of its outlets on the Web. Geosystem will take that company's data and lay it over an electronic-mapping database, then create hyperlinks between that application (running on the MapQuest site) and the company's pages. Visitors to the company site can click on the link, check out the map and then because the connection between the two is a "closed link" whip back to the page of origin. Maps can be enhanced with clients' logos or customized icons to reinforce brand identity; companies can also make their maps and consequently their home pages accessible as links from the MapQuest site.

Feed them!

Companies with customers who want to order product information and other materials online can outsource their Internet literature fulfillment to Comac Inc.. The company's new service, called NetTrack, gives you server space and a URL to advertise in magazines or newspapers. Visitors to your area can order marketing material or other literature, which Comac delivers either online or through fax-back. Comac also provides username and password security, tracks response rates and captures transaction information so your customers won't go hungry.