But what does Gorges Web Sites actually DO ?

We took a moment the other day to list out all of the various things we build for our customers.

Most of the 'tools' in the list below are adaptable and re-usable. This means we keep our costs very low and are able to leverage our past work for your direct economic benefit.

This page describes, in no particular order, frequent functions or modules or techniques that are used in our web applications and web sites.

1. Logo design, brand design, web design
2. Design and layout for all content pages

1. Online photo gallery manager
2. Automatically create thumbnails from uploaded pictures and link to larger picture
3. Online cropper and resizer for uploaded photos

1. Edit page text quickly and easily
2. You can create and designing your pages and menu systems
3. Manage photos for use in your web site pages
4. Product or service brochures that you maintain
5. Online scheduling and planning tools
6. Add or edit news, events, promotions, calendars

1. Keyword searches of all page content
2. 'Filter' searches using drop down menus to help narrow items or searches
3. Auto-completer functions for searching and rapid form entry

1. Product display with or without online purchasing
2. Simple forms to initialize order process
3. Retail sales with credit card checkout
4. Business to business applications and communication tools
5. Flash and javascript animations or product detailed views

1. Downloadable maps
2. Create links over to Yahoo or Google Maps
3. Full integration with Google Maps, add points to graph, hover / click on graph to see details about that point
4. Geo-coding extensions for determining latitude/longitude from addresses

1. Contact form to send information to owner of web site
2. Blog – online diary or news from you
3. Discussion groups / bulletin boards
4. Feedback / talk back (users can comment on each others comments online)
5. Subscribe to RSS feeds for information
6. Group calendars

1. Users create profiles, upload photos
2. Upload files and file manager
3. Chat, friend networking
4. Connect up groups, e.g. high schools, clubs

1. Online databases for content, products, etc
2. Administrative tools to manage database content

1. Online surveys to collect information
2. Survey building tool to enable creation and deployment of unlimited # of surveys
3. Summary reports of aggregated responses

1. integrate site with other services, such as Google Maps, Paypal, Data Feeds, RSS, Google Analytics, other content feeds, etc.

1. Asset tracking and logging
2. Tracking orders, for for customers, and administrators
3. Review of past orders or communications
4. Participation tracking

1. AJAX - "Asynchronous Javascript and XML" - communications with database for really fast interfaces
2. Advanced javascripting
3. CSS and dynamic DOM manipulation

1. Many businesses on one web site
2. Each business has tools to maintain their own section in the site

1. Standard and custom reporting tools
2. Export data to plain text, comma-separated value format, or XML
3. Conversion of formatted report to PDF, RTF, and image formats
4. Integration of dynamically-generated charts