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What do you need to do?

Tobin Associates LLC can help you create or completely refurbish your website, and in so doing increase your number of options for web-based communication. 

An enormous advantage of using a content management system is the sheer number of customizable add-ons available.  Different organizations need different functions based on their overarching priorities, which will always vary from organization to organization.  The CMS offers the ability to quickly and easily add a broad range of automated functions that may be updated by the organization, or preferably, the organization's users.  The users will always communicate what they want and see to access.  The number of tools available with a CMS will help to meet user demand.

Communicate with your users. Allow your users to communicate with each other.

• Social networks
  Allow your audience to communicate directly and join in the discussion.
• Blogs
  Have users communicate directly with you and each other.  Automatically filter out posts that contain inappropriate language.  Have complete control over what appears on your site.
• Forums
  Allow specific topics and threads of discussion.
• Multiple customized forms, as needed
  Have your customers contact you about specific products.  Create questionaires or surveys.
• Language Translation
  The ability to automatically translate your site into any one of a number of languages, or simply translate specific pages into different languages.
• E-Postcards
  Allow your users to send e-postcards to their friends of colleagues, or use it yourself to send personalized invites.
• Email collection for list building
  Collect email addresses on your site, and then use that list to send e-newsletters. 
• Electronic newsletters
  Format to match your site, or change formats to highlight special offerings or information.

Gain e-commerce capabilities.  Drive revenue through your site.

• Online stores
  Sell your merchandise online, and display comprehensive product information including multiple images.  Offer a number of different shipping options, and base shipping fees on your customer's zip code.
• Easily collect and manage online payments, donations, or contributions
  Dramatically increase the revenue coming through your site.  Offer users the ability to contribute one time only or make automatically recurring contributions.
• Online event registration
  Collect registrations online for seminars, workshops, and conferences.  Accept payment for fees.
• Banner advertising
  Control advertising on your site, and keep track of how many views a given banner ad has received.

Use your media.

• Image galleries
  Highlight images from your company's functions, available in a number of formats.
• Embed audio and video
  Place whatever media you would like on your site.

Display what's important.

• Interactive calendars
  Enjoy a number of options for displaying events, or anything that would appear in a calendar.
• Document or image managers
  Create your own online libraries, featuring restricted access as needed.
• Business Directories
  List businesses in a fully searchable directory.
• News aggregators
  Automatically pull specific news articles from a variety of other sites.  Make yourt site a go-to source for the latest industry information.
• Answers to commonly asked questions in the form of FAQs
  Put most commonly asked questions online in a clear and easy-to read FAQ format.
• RSS feeds
  Provide your users with RSS feeds of your frequently updated news items.

Niche and more specialized functions include:

• The ability to easily change homepage features
• Real estate listings.
• Creation of a true online magazine.
• User polls and voting.
• Rotating testimonials in the words of actual customers.
• Recipe listings.
• Comprehensive press sections (including password protected image libraries, as noted above).
• Google™ AdWords managers.
• Genealogy systems.

And much more, depending upon what you need to do.  Even if you have just an idea about what you'd like to have on your site, there's an good chance that we can do it.

Do not hesitate to contact Tobin Associates LLC with any questions.