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 always privileged to be a part of projects involving education. Especially when music is involved.

Teen Rock Shop Loacted in Johnson City, NY. Provides a 12 week after school rock and roll workshop for students who are currently enrolled in music lessons and are between the ages of 7-17. Owners Jo and Mike Whitney needed a tool to market their growing business, while making it a flexible and interactive experience for students and faculty to communicate homework, concert dates and even post classified ads on the website.

Welcome to the world wide web!

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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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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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Great news to all Card One Concept clients and future clients -- we'll soon be unveiling vDeck 3.0! This new version of our control panel will give you access to additional tools and services and make it easier than ever to manage your web hosting account.

MORE TOOLS AND SERVICES
To give you an idea of the scope of this new control panel, the current version of vDeck incorporates 75 different tools and services--vDeck 3.0 will raise that number to more than 200!

EASIER ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT
In addition, vDeck 3.0 will be even more deeply integrated into our platform than the current version, and it will offer:

* Online access to our support ticketing system.
* Online access to our new improved Knowledgebase.
* Online access to comprehensive tutorials to get you up to speed.
* Customizable user by user web hosting control panel.
* Useful and customizable widgets.
* New and improved Webmail system.
* And much much more!


INCREASED SECURITY AND RELIABILITY
We're revamping our hosting infrastructure, moving from our current distributed, box-by-box deployment to a unified, load-balanced architecture--which will provide greater redundancy for your Web site and e-mail.

UPGRADE PROCESS BEGINS THIS FALL
Card One Concepts is really looking forward to rolling out the new version of vDeck, but we realize that it represents a change. We appreciate your support and patience during this process.

Clients now have the ability to login to their vDeck right from Card One Concepts website by clicking the link labeled "Client Login" at the bottom of any page. We are also working to add vDeck login capabilities to your own website on request for free.

If you have any questions, please ask! As always, you can call us at 607-785-5817 or E-mail us if you have any problems logging in to your vDeck Control Panel.

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Webmaster Strategy : Cross-Linking your web sites

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Start with the basics in using DreamWeaver to create your web site.

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Adam Trickett talks about setting up and running your own web server and creating content for it. This is a beginner level talk. See http://www.hantslug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl TechTalks for more details and copies of the presentation that accompanied the talk. This talk was given at the Hampshire Linux User Group (HantsLUG) meeting on 2nd December 2006 at Southampton University, UK.

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These questions are designed to help you as a designer or business owner to focus on what the needs of the web site project are.

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?
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 (Cybercash or ATS)?
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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