July 10th, 2010
http://www.mmaally.com/
MMAALLY is a web site designed for fighters to help the sport of mixed martial arts. It is a tool that fighters can use to build their profiles and establish their credentials. The web site allows promoters to find fighters and it allows state commissioners to evaluate fighter qualifications before they approve the fight. The web site is a custom PHP web application. There are different levels of users and different types of users. There are fighters, commissioners, promoters and coaches. You can sign up for a free account and there are two subscription based accounts with greater functionality.
IDP just finished adding a new feature to the web site that is very exciting! Now promoters can interactively build a fight card online. Promoters can search for fighters by state and drag and drop fighters onto the fight card. Promoters can contact the fighters via the web site. Promoters can then submit the fight card electronically to the state commissioner of that state. The state commissioner can review the fight card, research the fighters, approve fights, deny fights, add comments and send the fight card back to the promoter.
Mixed martial arts has become very popular in the US. MMA ALLY is a great tool for any fighter to use to gain exposure and build their credentials. Send this link to any fighter you know today! http://www.mmaally.com/
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June 18th, 2010
Kessinger/Hunter & Co., L.C. is Greater Kansas City’s oldest commercial real estate company. From its roots as a small real estate partnership in 1879, the company has grown to 200 employees and operates $2 billion of real estate. Kessinger Hunter consistently rank among the area’s largest commercial real estate companies. They provide a full range of sales and leasing, property management, development and construction management services for industrial, office and retail properties across the U.S., Canada and Europe.
IDP is assisting Kessinger Hunter with web and marketing services. The Kansas City commercial real estate company provides office brokerage, industrial brokerage, development services, investment sales, retail brokerage, construction management, property management and operations and engineering.
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April 22nd, 2010
“Tips & Tricks to increasing traffic & getting leads from your web site”
WEB SITE NO NO’S (don’t do these things..)
- Web sites built with no text and all Flash
- Web sites built with no text and big images
- Web sites built with Microsoft Word or Publisher
- Never updating your web site or only updating your web site once a year
- No text links or relevant copy
- Ignoring your web site
- Taking your marketing brochure and turning it into a web site
WEB SITE BEST PRACTICES
Page Title: 8-10 keyword rich words in Title (blue bar at top of web browser) What should your page title be on your home page?
URL: Find a short URL with relevant words in URL. Don’t make up words. Use sub-directories with descriptive file names. What would be the perfect URL for your business?
Text Navigation: Use text links for navigation. Don’t use images and buttons for all of your navigation.
Heading: Use a text heading on every page that includes keywords in the heading. The HTML tag for heading should be H1. What H1 Heading should appear on your home page?
Body Copy: Plain text copy of 250-600 words. 5-6 appearances of keywords in this copy. Text links within this copy.
Add Resources: The Internet was created to share information. Add information or content to your web site. Add Free Resources to your web site to establish your credibility. Add articles and information that would be useful for people related to your business. Build a resource center. Free advice, consultation or other information. What Resource could you add to your web site?
Call to Action: Add a call to action to your home page to ask for business and generate a lead. Use a submit form, email and phone number for easy contact.
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April 14th, 2010
IDP Just launched a new site: Katz Valuation Group
If you are in need of a Business Valuation, or Industry Research Reports, Katz Valuation Group is a great place to gather key information. Katz has offices in Kansas City and Chicago, however they can serve your needs no matter where your location is.
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March 4th, 2010
IDP is looking for a highly motivated, organized, and hardworking individual to join our team as a Full Time Web Designer/Developer. If you fit the requirements below, please email us immediately at jobs@goidp.com. No phone calls please – direct applicants only, no staffing companies please.
Qualifications
- Web design experience
- Graphic Design Degree or Related Experience
- Expert with Adobe CS4 Suite (Photoshop, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, Etc)
- Joomla! and Wordpress themes/skins and experience a requirement
- Expert use of CSS and HTML. SEO Experience a big plus.
- Experience developing search engine friendly code & CSS navigation menus
- Flash skills
- PHP (Linux) and/or ASP .NET Experience a Big Plus
- Visual Studio Experience
- jQuery / AJAX experience a plus
- Magento E-Commerce Experience a Plus
- Ability to learn new technologies and be on the forefront of emerging web technologies
- Hard working, problem solver & self motivated. Can manage project from start to finish
Primary Responsibilities
- Design mockups for company websites and then turn these mockups into interactive, highly polished websites for our customers. Candidate should know typical web guidelines (W3C) HTML Standards and CSS Standards.
- Professional layout of text and graphics
- Logo development and similar graphic design tasks
- Home page media element development (Flash, JQuery, Slideshow, etc)
- Setup submit forms and validation
- Test & troubleshoot work. Debug browser compatibility issues.
- Solve problems and create great web sites
- Communicate with IDP project manager and customer
- Develop themes/skins for Jooma!, Wordpress and Magento CMS/E-Commerce systems
- Assist Sales in providing time/cost estimates for potential projects
About IDP
For small-to-medium sized businesses looking to harness the power of the Internet, IDP provides unsurpassed expertise, reliability, and service. Unlike other firms that tout only creative resources focusing on how web sites look, IDP helps client put the web to work with professionally designed sites that generate leads, create efficiencies, and solve problems; resulting in time and cost savings, increased sales, and higher profitability for its clients.
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February 17th, 2010
Recently, we found the need to save customer credit card information within Magento to allow “Follow Up Orders.” Example: Customer purchases service “XYZ” from us, but we find out that they really need “XYZ” + “ABC.” How do you add on products to orders or do re-occuring payments without saving the credit card number? Authorize.net CIM (Customer Information Manager) is the answer. Our Magento Authorize.net CIM Module allows customers to check out as normal, customer card information is saved on Authorize.net’s system, and a token is passed down to our store. This token can then be referenced in the future to do additional transactions.
Screenshots are below. Please contact me (abrink@goidp.com) if you are interested in this module, it is currently running on several production stores and working very well.
Configuration Page
Token View, Ability to do another transaction with existing card
Future Enhancements Include:
- Ability to allow users to saved credit card preferences for quick purchases (Amazon.Com)
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