Card One Concepts is happy to announce the launch of the new and improved website for Nanticoke Gardens!

Since 1973, Nanticoke Gardens has been the area’s premier grower of high quality bedding plants and poinsettias. As professional growers, they take pride in providing the largest selection of top quality plants in the Greater Binghamton and Broome County area.

Card One Concepts invites you to visit their newly designed website, you will be surprised at the quality and variety of their plants, flowers, vegetables, herbs and more.

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Card One Concepts, all it's existing and future clients websites, web hosting and email services now run on 100% wind power!

How It Works

Since generating wind energy on site isn't feasible, we're offsetting all of our electricity use with wind-generated Renewable Energy Certificates, which prevent the release of 2,660 metric tons of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere each year.

That figure is staggering when you consider the estimated yearly benefit to the environment is equivalent to any one of the following:

* planting approximately 2,390 acres of trees
* not driving 6.1 million miles
* removing 510 cars from the road

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Card One Concepts is very excited to announce the launch of the new and improved Color Tech Tattoo website.

Color Tech Tattoo has been serving Binghamton NY and the greater southern tier since 2000, their qualified staff have a combined experience of over 30 years with tattooing, piercing and other body modifications.

The website was long overdue for an overhaul since it has not been updated since 2001. Color Tech wanted a site that displayed their stunning talent and award winning tattoos while giving them the ability to update it on their own and to keep in touch with their clients as well. So we hooked them up with a blog section that utilizes RSS feeds, so they can post new projects as they get them along with other news and events and allows anyone to leave comments.

We want to thank Color Tech Tattoo for putting their faith in our guidance and experience, while allowing us the creative freedom to design a great looking and user friendly website that showcases their talent.

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Card One Concepts has been very busy this year working on several exciting projects with businesses all over the souther tiers area.

Schaefer's Gardens is a wholesale plant and flower grower and distributor located a half an hour south of Syracuse NY. As Schaefer's plants and flowers grow, owners Joan and George Schaefer realized that they needed help growing their online presence with a complete redesign of their old website.

Owner Joan Schaefer says:

"I can't begin to tell you how excited and pleased we are with our new site. We are getting lots of compliments...easy to maneuver, easy on the eye......You should bask in your success!"

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Card One Concepts is happy to announce the successful launch of the Discrimination Services of New York (DSofNY) website. The first business of its kind, Owner Caroline Bloodgood assists in professional response services and document preparation for her clients who have been discriminated against in New York State.

Congratulation to Caroline Bloodgood on your decision to improve your online presence and allow your business to grow.

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I am happy to announce that the website for DPC Engineering located in Elmira Heights, NY is now live. This was an exciting project to work on with a new business associate Amy J. Stoddard. Welcome to the web DPC Engineering!

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When clients hire Card One Concepts to design and develop a website we provide them with questions designed to help them determine what their web site needs and goals are. The feedback helps map out the foundation of the project and allows the client to really focus on the important details and helps them put into perspective the amount of work involved on their part.

If you are thinking of working with Card One Concepts on a website project you may find the following questions helpful to you before you request a free quote.

Background:

1. What is the nature of your business?
2. Who is your target audience?

Message:

1. What goals does your company intend to reach with a new web site?
2. What is the primary message you wish to convey to your audience with this site?

Perception:

1. Use adjectives to describe how you want your site to be perceived by the user. (Examples: conservative, progressive, friendly, formal, casual, serious, experts, humorous, service-oriented, professional, etc)
2. How is your company currently perceived? Do you wish to carry through the same kind of message through your web site?
3. What web sites do you find compelling? What do you find the most interesting about these sites?What do you find the least interesting or annoying about these sites?Please provide at least 3 website addresses for reference.
4. Are there other web sites you've seen that have functionality that you would like to have on your site? Due to differences in server operating systems, not all functionality you see on the web may be available on your site.

Style:

1. Do you have company colors or a color scheme you want us to use?
2. Describe any visual elements or styles that can be utilized from existing marketing materials or collateral.
3. If we are providing graphics, what style would you like them to be in: photography, illustration, cartoon, etc?

Content:

1. Will this site use existing content? If not, will you be creating content in-house or using an outside provider?
2. What is the basic structure of the content, and how is it organized?
3. Will you need to request any sensitive information on your site (social security numbers, credit card numbers)? If so, you will need to acquire a security certificate.

Commerce Sites:

1. How many products do you plan to sell on your web site? Will the products change often?
2. Do your products have any variations? If so, do they apply to all the products? Does each product have different variations? List variations.
3. What is your shipping model (flat rate, by total dollar amount, by piece)?
4. Will you be charging Sales Tax? If so, which state(s) will be charged? What percentage?
5. Are there any special pricing rules we need to know about (Ex: purchase 12 of our product and receive a 10% discount.)?
6. Which credit cards do you accept?
7. Do you need online credit card authorization (Paypal or Google Checkout)?
8. Do you want to accept checks or purchase orders?
9. Review the commerce options we have and see if one fits your needs best. Our sales representatives will be able to help you with this.

Marketing / Updating:

1. What are your short-term marketing goals (in the next two years)?
2. How will this web site help to meet your goals?
3. Do you have an existing or planned marketing strategy in mind to promote this site? If so, please describe.
4. What do you feel is your number one business problem? (Examples: change image, increase customers, promote company, etc.)
5. What methods of distributing the URL already exist within the company?
6. Do you intend on keeping the site updated? If so, how often? Who is responsible for updating and providing content?
7. What are your budget limitations? Can this project be broken in a phased manner to help you meet your goals?

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Card One Concepts wants to wish everyone an very safe and Happy New Year!

We hope this year was as good to you as it has been to us. We look forward to the year ahead, the continued relationships we have with our clients and we can't wait to meet the new ones!

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