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The old AddisonLabs.com was looking a bit dated and was difficult to update

Addison Biological Labs asked Delta Systems to redesign their website to better feature their products and long company history.

The old site was a bit difficult to navigate and update. It also had no content management system.

This website is featured in our online portfolio.

New Website Features Completely powered by WordPress Custom WordPress plugin to more easily handle content in the image carousel on the homepage Completely integrated Google Analytics Great Search Engine Optimization features

The new AddisonLabs.com website features the WordPress Content Management System and features a more modern, product centric look

WordPress Experts

We are WordPress Experts

As an early adopter, Delta Systems has the most experience building and hosting WordPress powered websites of anyone in the area. And just in case there isn’t already a plugin built to make WordPress do exactly what you need, we are experts in building WordPress plugins as well. Ask around and you’ll find out why we’re the best. We have an extensive list of references.

Need something done? Just Call Delta

Delta Systems is a full-service computer consulting company with a suite of in-house development, design, and computer network support talent.

Building online applications and data management systems that are intuitive yet powerful is our specialty.

Give us a call and find out why over 800 companies have trusted Delta Systems with their networking, online, and programming needs since 1986. Ask around.

You’ll hear people say, “Just call Delta” so much that we made it our website – http://JustCallDelta.com

Screenshot of the new donateblood.com

Delta Systems is pleased to announce the publishing of an all new look for donateblood.com just in time for the 2010 Greek Week Blood Drive at the University of Missouri.

Delta Systems has been helping the American Red Cross for over 20 years with blood drives.

Need something done? Just Call Delta

Delta Systems is a full-service computer consulting company with a suite of in-house development, design, and computer network support talent.

Building online applications and data management systems that are intuitive yet powerful is our specialty.

Give us a call and find out why over 800 companies have trusted Delta Systems with their networking, online, and programming needs since 1986.  Ask around.

You’ll hear people say, “Just call Delta” so much that we made it our website – http://JustCallDelta.com

Delta Systems has built a website to showcase a luxury beach rental home on Captiva Island, Florida.

Visit www.AlmostHeavenCaptiva.com

Almost Heaven Captiva

Enjoy the animated crab that shows you snapshots of the house and the unique treasure map feel of the site.

When a user visits the page, we pull live weather information from Yahoo’s weather RSS feed, and then we parse out the information we want to display.

Once the information is parsed, we compare to a database of images and weather types and then show an appropriate icon for the weather type. We use tango icons, because they have transparent backgrounds and are a higher resolution than the Yahoo images in the feed. This provides a better look and a more site-specific integrated feel to the weather portion of the page.

When Yahoo throws us a wrench, and we don’t have an icon for the weather type, the system immediately sends us an email and are able to go in and associate the appropriate icon for the weather type. We have some defaults in place, but sometimes you just don’t know; for instance, they added ‘Strong Thunderstorms’ and then ‘Wind/Rain’.

We’re waiting for ‘hurricane’ to be added as well.

An all new Callaway Bank web presence went live this week at http://www.callawaybank.com. Delta Systems was hired to create a fresh, clean, updated website for the bank as well as provide secure hosting. A third party will also be updating the online banking portion of the website in the weeks to come.

callawaybank.com screenshot

The site features

• A branch and ATM locater that incorporates the use of Google Maps
• Search engine optimization (SEO) techniques to allow Google, Yahoo, etc to find content quickly and index it properly.
• An EV-SSL certificate which is designed to ensure an extra level of trust when viewed from Internet Explorer or Firefox
• 5 different homepage graphics that are randomly displayed during subsequent site visits
• Google Analytics statistics collection and reporting
• An easy to use content management system (CMS) so the client can add/edit pages as well as the content on those pages.
• A blogging system that the marketing department will use to update the list of currently available promotions and possibly update interest rates on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis
• An internal, password protected newsletter that employees can now publish

In addition to that. . .

• The site was tested for use in IE7, IE6, Firefox, and Safari browsers.
• “301 Redirects” were put into place to avoid dead links while search engines re-index the website

Delta Systems delivered the site on schedule and on budget.

Putting the site live was intentionally delayed for 2 weeks by the client due to this crazy stock market and financial crisis.

“The team at Delta Systems was great to work with throughout the entire design and production of our new website. They provided guidance and support as we stepped through the process. We were especially impressed with their quick response to our questions and their dedication to reaching every deadline and going LIVE on schedule.” -Debbie LaRue, Director of Marketing

“We asked Delta Systems to help us completely overhaul our web site and rebuild it from scratch, and they did a great job for us! They stayed on schedule and within budget. Plus their team made the process extremely easy for us. We are very pleased with the site and how well they worked with us.” -Jeff Jones, V.P./Director of Sales

Thanks Debbie and Jeff! We’re glad to help.

The all new University of Missouri MU Area Health Education Center website went live this week at http://muahec.com/  The new site allows a more visual representation of how the program works and provides detailed information about all the different programs offered.

The AHEC (Area Health Education Centers) program was developed by Congress in 1971 to recruit, train and retain a health professions workforce committed to underserved populations.

We’re pleased to announce that four more websites are now being hosted by Delta Systems.

• ColumbiaMOChamber.com
  The Columbia Chamber of Commerce website is now hosted by Delta Systems. This site’s availability instantly rocketed from 80% to 100%. Soon we’ll be improving some usability, printing, and design/layout issues as well.
• SABEW.org
  The Society of American Business Editors and Writers website (SABEW) is now also on our servers. This site will now enjoy greater editing and content management capabilities.
• IYNAUS.org
  The Iyengar Yoga National Association website was built and is hosted by Delta Systems. IYNAUS is now able to do online membership management and invoicing as well as provide online product sales through a custom built eCommerce solution.
• DirectWelcomeHome.com
  The Welcome Home Greeting Program is a way for businesses to specifically target people who have recently moved into a new home. This company has a bright future as it grows a national sales force. Look for a future Delta blog post for more information.

Also, one of our hosting resellers added two more sites to our hosting servers.

About Delta Systems Hosting

Typically website hosting packages include 300MB of drive space, unlimited email accounts, unlimited databases, your choice of a Windows or Linux server, Plesk Control Panel access, site backup on a separate network in another State, and more. Prices start at $25/month.

The new Rainbow House website was put online today at RainbowHouseColumbia.org

The mission of Rainbow House is to keep children safe and to support families in crisis through prevention, assessment, and intervention in child abuse and neglect.

Please consider donating to their wonderful cause today.

As a courtesy to the Rainbow House, Delta Systems owns and forwards http://www.rainbowhousecolumbia.com to their .org site

About Delta Systems

Delta Systems Group is a company founded in 1986 with the vision of helping small businesses achieve their goals through the appropriate use of technology. Over the years, Delta has provided help to hundreds of organizations and individuals throughout the community. Today we provide database, software, and Internet development services in addition to our top-notch network support. As always, if you just need some questions answered, we do that too!

Recently, the Columbia Business Times wrote that Delta Systems is “one of the area’s premier providers of computing solutions.” We are happy to provide an extensive list of references from other companies that needed the exact same solutions that your company seeks.

If you’d like to learn more, let’s go to lunch! I’m happy to listen to what you have on your mind and see how else we can help your organization.

Dr. Tony Gadbois needed a website to help distribute office and clinical protocols to dental practices wanting to offer and implement Invisalign products.

The result is a simple, clean website that gathers basic contact information from the dentist while providing somewhat restricted access to a myriad of detailed PDFs. The site is hosted at GoDaddy.com under Dr. Tony’s account. Delta Systems helped to get email account and domain forwarding setup since the .com, .org, and .info all needed to point to the same website.

MayeCreate Design partnered with Delta Systems to help with data collection and to put the site live just in time to coincide with a presentation Dr. Tony Gadbois was making at a conference about the protocols.

Automatic invisalign is a turn-key system of office and clinical protocols that will steer you through the ride to full integration of Invisalign.

Dr. Tony Gadbois practices at Cherry Hill Dental

Visit the new site at http://www.automaticinvisalign.com

The National Newspaper Association brought their new website live recently at nna.org This new site features a design by Delta Systems with content being supplied by Avectra’s NetForum association management software.

The NNA has retained some features of the old site that Delta helped with, including the membership dues calculator that allows potential members to calculate their annual membership fees before they sign up.  (Delta previously featured a story about the member dues calculator). Delta also helped save the NNA some money by suggesting using an off-the-shelf collaboration system (phpBB) to launch their NNA Great Ideas forum.

www.TrimAndFitForever.com (Site retired) now hosts their website with Delta Systems.

The Trim and Fit Forever Website was based on a brochure created by a third party for owner Laurie Seever.

Delta Systems adapted the graphics and layout for the Internet in a matter of hours.

Delta Systems also added Google Analytics to the site so the client could see detailed information as to site visitation