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Exciting Stuff !

Every once in a while, we get to work on a cutting edge project where we use new technology.  Or invent a new way to present information.  We showcase some of those projects here.  A note to our competitors:  Use these techniques and technologies!  Your customers will love them!

Flash Introductions

Calhoun County's Flash Introduction

Calhoun County's Flash Intro

Calhoun County wanted to showcase their beautiful community by using various imagery at the start of their website.  We developed a flash presentation that featured pictures of people and places within the County and set it to music and corresponding text.  We inserted options that included skipping or replaying the scenes as well as a way to turn off the music.  This flash presentation only plays the first time a visitor accesses the site.
 

Muninet Guide and Review

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Muninet Guide and Review's
On-line Directory

 

Rich Ciccarone, publisher of Muninet Guide and Review, had a vision.  He wanted to create an online directory of official municipal websites.  To make it more useful to his subscribers, he intended to categorize the websites in his link list.  Need to find transportation websites?  No problem.  Tourism websites in California?  Easy.  Municipal Bond Websites in New York?  Simple.  The best part, though, is the part we can't show you.  Behind the scenes, we provided the editor with a way to manage the 8,000 (and counting) sites in the database.  Of course they can add, edit and delete sites.  We also provided a means for splitting and combining categories, counting the websites in the directory, and deleting categories.  We even provided a tool for checking "Link Rot" in the database.

 

Ease of Navigation

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OpenCube Dropdown Menu

We've also come up with ways to make navigation easier on large municipal sites.

OpenCube dropdown menus have become the standard of many websites simply because they are easy to use.  MWS has perfected the art of customizing dropdown menus to each website.  Take a look at the examples below:

Elkhorn
Walker

 

Visual Extras

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Visual Extras - Rotating Banners

We believe that images can add a powerful punch without taking away from the information that needs to be displayed.  We've come up with a solution that allows a variety of city images to be proudly displayed without taking up precious content area.  View the larger rotating banner images on these websites:  Novi and Grand Blanc and the smaller slideshows on these websites:
Morrison and Walker.

 

Secure Forms

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Annoyed with spam email generated from the online forms on your website?  We can help!  We've implemented technology that stops “form spam” with 100% success rate.  Say good-bye to those pesky and unwanted sales messages from your web forms!

Secure forms technology in action

 

 

 

 

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