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Website Design and Implementation |
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Experience Outdoors (EO) offers a wide range of Web services. Creative integration of art and technology allows Experience Outdoors to continuously innovate, in order to meet the needs and expectations of sophisticated users. The ever-changing and expanding Internet requires that clients deliver their brand message consistently and effectively. Experience Outdoors designs deliver the focus necessary to achieve the desired impact. EO's imaginative vision blends designers and technologists into a cohesive media creation team. The technology needs vary for each client and are carefully selected to deliver the desired effect; a client's message is always EO's focus. From basic Websites to Online Communities, E-Commerce solutions and custom Database development, Experience Outdoors can help you distribute your message, products and brand across the Web.
Our Approach:
It is important to understand that Experience Outdoors offers a different approach to building websites. The old way…webmasters keep clients in the dark, withholding information and making things seem overly complex in order to charge for every little update or modification. Our way…build a site that is easily user-maintainable and updateable, train you how to manage your site effectively, and minimize your ongoing costs.
Without getting too technical, Experience Outdoors websites are:
| | | Easy to Use: Experience Outdoors sites use a Content Management System (CMS). While that sounds complicated, it's not. CMS is a collection of built-in, easy-to-use tools that allow us and our customers to manipulate almost every aspect of their website quickly and easily.
Content is simply the words and pictures that you are reading right now, management means a set of tools for manipulating the words and pictures. Our sites separate the content from the complication of HTML and web programming. |
| As an example, one of the primary tools is a content editor.
This tool is used to manipulate the content on your website, and you’ll notice that it looks and works just like a word processor such as Microsoft Word.
Using this content editor, you can quickly and easily add and update content on your site. If you can use a word processor, you're basically ready to go…and you can access these built-in tools from any computer on the Internet. |  | | | | Template-Based: EO web solutions are built using a template system. Templates are not limiting, they can be any color and layout that a customer desires. Experience Outdoors has many base templates that provide our customers with a variety of looks and layouts. Or they can provide a great point of departure for a unique design.
Because the template is separate from all of the content on the site; if you desire a new appearance for your site, you can always purchase the creation of a new template.
Another benefit of the separation of content from look and organization means that updating or changing a template requires little to no work to be done with the content.
All content that was there before is there in whatever new template you choose. This allows you to keep your site fresh and up-to-date without tedious or costly data re-entry. | 
| | | | Open Source: The tools and software we use are Open Source.
Open Source is a movement in the computer industry that is built around the concept of many members coming together to provide free solutions to software needs.
Why is this important? It’s very important because it means a substantial cost savings to you over a period of time; you aren’t paying license fees to Microsoft or other “for-profit” companies.
The other major advantage is that the Open Source movement has provided substantial innovation in the website and web hosting marketplace. |
| | | | The Bottom Line: The bottom line for our customers is that Experience Outdoors is able to deliver world-class dynamic web solutions to our customers that are easy to use, affordable and flexible. Customers aren't stuck with a never-changing website that requires costly outside intervention or a steep learning curve to manipulate.
Your EO website can be updated from any computer with Internet access, using built-in tools that are as easy to use as a word processor. No HTML, programming, or web guru required! |
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