Web Design and Application Development Services

Combine creative design and development with a marketing driven business approach and the results are fresh solutions that will keep you standing above the competition. Our website designs consistently draw recognition, while making a profound statement conveying professionalism to your target audience.

Our eBusiness design services are modeled to become an integral part of your organizations marketing strategy. A superior website design can benefit and facilitate several functions within your company:

• Selling Your Product or Service Online
• Effectively Branding Your Company Image
• Providing New Methods for Communication
• Providing a Resource For Sharing Information
• Increasing Public Awareness of Your Presence

The benefits of a well planned website are limitless, adding value for your clients and improving internal operations allowing your company to manage time more effectively. Athalon Designs aren't just websites but custom business solutions that help your company reach its potential.

Less is More

Our standard designs are simple yet extremely effective. Communicating that your company is a serious, trusted professional entity doesn't require 100 pages of intricate graphics. For many of our customers, a clear, brochure style website delivers the goods. An explanation of your corporate mission and services, backed up by graphical examples of your work, and powerful testimonials are often all it takes to get your prospect to put down the mouse and pick up the phone.

We pride ourselves on being able to establish a corporate presence on the internet, at an extremely reasonable cost, in a very short period of time. And if you think you've outgrown your website, all the expense of your introductory website can be applied to your full custom design in the future.

Content Management Systems

Content Management Systems (CMS) are platforms for building highly manageable high-end internet solutions. Many of the most popular websites on the internet are build upon CMS. The biggest advantage to a CMS system is the customer administration, providing you the ability to manage your own text and images for each page of your website through a very easy to use, intuitive interface. This can save you thousands of dollars in maintenance fees, and even if you outsource your site maintenance, the effort to maintain it is significantly less than a 'static' html website.

At Athalon Designs we work with the two most popular and powerful CMS systems available.Wordpress sites use the Open-Source Wordpress system to manage and present your website. It is very flexible in it's presentation features and there are hundreds of plugins available for wordpress, which mean that the advanced features you desire can often be obtained for thousands of dollars less than if they had to be written from scratch. It allows us to provide you with highly cost efficient designs, passing the savings on to you.

The most advanced websites are designed upon the Joomla Content Management System providing a plug-and-play platform for adding benefit and functionality to your website as your company grows. Through the Joomla administration panel, you will have the ability to manage the text and images for each page of your website, change the look of the site with a press of a button, or even add entire new features in hours instead of days. The Joomla CMS is an Open-Source system, which means it is licensed for free distribution and use with your website design, a saving that we are able to pass onto you.

eCommerce Shopping Cart & Product Catalogs

If you are selling products or need to process payments for service packages, Athalon can provide you with a variety of shopping cart applications, including VirtueMart, built for the Joomla system, the WordPress e-Commerce plugin, and 1ShoppingCart for those who need custom designs, mailing lists and affiliate programs. These e-Commerce solutions are among the best available; the resulting product catalog is extremely robust and capable of maintaining unlimited products and product categories, vendor information, tax zones, and customer records. Your customers will enjoy the ability to return to your website to view order status, place new orders, or repeat past orders using saved credentials. All can process payments through a wide variety of payment clearing houses, and include an order management system for tracking the fulfillment process.

Real Estate Property MLS Database

For Real Estate professionals, Athalon provides a Multiple Listing Service (MLS) style property database for advertising available sale properties. Properties are stored in categories by style, location, price range, or by custom categories that suit the needs of your organization. Hot properties can be highlighted for display on key areas of the website, and once sold the properties can be archived and used as a sales portfolio.

Project Portfolio and Image Galleries

Athalon can provide portfolio and image galleries allowing you to create categories of an unlimited number of images to share with clients and prospect visitors. Visitors will browse through categories, view a list of thumbnails for the selected category, and select from image thumbnails to view a full sized version of the image. In addition, each image can be accompanied by a title and detailed information describing the image, prototype, architectural or artistic piece.

Newsletters and Mailing List Managers

To help you capture potential buyer credentials, Athalon provides newsletter and mailing list management tools for your website. The mailing list manager collects the email address of potential buyers and website visitors. With the newsletter management tool, you can create newsletters that carry the branding of your company website, which can be sent to all or a select list of the available subscribers. We work with the Joomla integrated mailing list manager, Aweber and 1ShoppinCart.

Customized Solutions for Customers & Employees

To expand the capabilities and value of your website, customized database software solutions for managing your customer or internal operation data can be implemented. Customer Relationship Management solutions like Live Chat, Project Management, or Customer Resource Directories can benefit your customer by providing tools that will be continually brand your image. Internally these tools can greatly improve employee workflow by providing direct communications and centralized project management for your data. The Athalon Website Design team has the development experience and business know-how to develop tools to fit and compliment your particular corporate culture.