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The Columbia Business Times app can be downloaded by visiting http://www.columbiabusinesstimes.com from your mobile device

Back in November, the Columbia Business Times launched a new format of their publication by changing from a bi-monthly newspaper into a monthly magazine. The Business Times Company called on Delta Systems to once again help them out with bringing their publications onto the web.

Last week, the CBT launched their December 2011 issue and announced the availability of their CBT mobile app.

The site works beautifully on all major mobile devices and tablets.  By default, viewing the website on an iPad or Android-based tablet yields the same experience as viewing from a desktop computer.

Delta also added some niceties for iPhone users with the ability to easily add a shortcut icon to your phone.

Visit http://www.ColumbiaBusinessTimes.com now in order to get the app and experience the magazine.

Truman Wants YOU to Donate Blood

On this bright Monday morning, the Hearnes Center Fieldhouse in Columbia, MO is completely packed with equipment and dozens of blood donation stations. As the American Red Cross’ executive vice president of biomedical services, Chris Hrouda, finishes his remarks and the Chamber finishes their ribbon cutting, America’s largets multiday blood drive is underway.

Blood Donor Registration and Tracking System

Delta systems has been very pleased to help out the American Red Cross blood drive for the past 20 years with a customized, and ever-evolving blood donor registration and tracking system that has been in use at almost 40 blood drives and deferral days. This year is a bit different in that our capability to track the average donation time has been removed due to a reordering of the entire donation process. However, our real-time stats of overall donation numbers is still valid. The entire process continues to keep wait times to only a few minutes while providing the Homecoming committee with vital participant statistics that help to determine the winner of the Homecoming festivities.

The History of Homecoming

Homecoming is especially important at Mizzou, since they invented it, and are celebrating 100 years of homecoming in 2011.

Mizzou’s Homecoming Blood Drive – America’s Largest

MU blood drive looks to set record - The Columbia Daily Tribune

The University of Missouri is home to the largest multiday blood drive in the American Red Cross system nationwide. Hitting the 5,000-unit goal would set a record for the organization and MU and has the potential to affect 15,000 lives. Read more at MU blood drive looks to set record

Read more about the 2011 Boone Dawdle in the Columbia Daily Tribune

Delta Systems was proud to sponsor the 2011 Boone Dawdle. Once again, our contribution was the creation and management of the online ticket purchasing and reporting system.

This is one in a series of efforts that Delta Systems has committed to the Columbia, MO born True/False film festival.

A Short History of the Dawdle

Delta Sponsors the 2011 Boone Dawdle

In the summer of 2010, True/False decided to create a new event to accompany their annual film festival. On August 21st, 2010 the First Annual Boone Dawdle took place, consisting of a bike ride from Columbia to Rocheport, followed by a local food picnic hosted by Les Bourgeois vineyards, and a screening of documentary film “Best Worst Movie” accompanied by its director and star.

Paul Sturtz and David Wilson have graciously allowed Delta Systems to work on the technical stuff with some of their amazing volunteers.

To manage the first ever Dawdle successfully, True/False asked Delta to create a ticket purchasing and reporting system. The system allowed multiple passes to be purchased at once, handled payment processing seamlessly, empowered the festival staff to manage content, and provided powerful reports to help staff manage the logistics of the event.

Delta Builds Tracking Systems

"Just Call Delta" Today!

Since 1986, Delta has been building tracking systems for everything from napkins to insurance policies, from golf courses to hot dog ingredients, from horse ailments to yoga certifications, and from blood donors to paddlefish.

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

How can we help? Give us a call and discuss it for free.

As you may have heard, WordPress v3.2 is now available.  With this update, the WordPress 3.2 minimum system requirements were also increased.

Unfortunately, for some website hosting providers, upgrading from MySQL 4.0 to 5.0 may not be an option. This will eventually leave your site without the ability to upgrade plug-ins and apply security patches.

How is Delta Web Hosting Different?

How is Delta different? The Only Way to Know is to Talk to Us

1. Our cloud-based website hosting servers are ready to host WordPress 3.2 sites.
2. We’ve had MySQL 5.0 running on them for quite some time.
3. As with previous WordPress updates, we will help all our clients climb into WordPress 3.2.
4. All we need is a quick phone call and approval to upgrade your site
5. Your website is backed up every 4 hours
6. Server image snapshots are taken often

Learn More About What’s New in WordPress 3.2

Taken from the WordPress official blog:

We are WordPress Design and Development Experts

The focus for this release was making WordPress faster and lighter. The first thing you’ll notice when you log in to 3.2 is a refreshed dashboard design that tightens the typography, design, and code behind the admin. (Rhapsody in Grey?) If you’re starting a new blog, you’ll also appreciate the fully HTML5 new Twenty Eleven theme, fulfilling our plan to replace the default theme every year. Start writing your first post in our redesigned post editor and venture to the full-screen button in the editing toolbar to enter the new distraction-free writing or zen mode, my personal favorite feature of the release. All of the widgets, menus, buttons, and interface elements fade away to allow you to compose and edit your thoughts in a completely clean environment conducive to writing, but when your mouse strays to the top of the screen your most-used shortcuts are right there where you need them.

Delta Systems is pleased to announce the availability of a new website for the Laboratory of Applied Ecology.

The Laboratory of Applied Ecology (LEA) is part of the Faculty of Agronomic Sciences (FSA) at the University of Abomey-Calavi (UAC-Benin). The LEA is one of the most advanced research institutions on natural resources in West Africa.

The Republic of Benin is a country of about nine million people and is located in West Africa.

Delta Systems became involved thanks to Dr. Roland Holou, then an ambitious doctoral student at the University of Missouri – Columbia.  Roland’s commitment to helping his fellow countrymen is exemplary.

Delta Systems set out to help the Laboratoire d’Ecologie Appliquée put up a system that would allow them to showcase their work, partnerships, and extensive photo collection. The site needed to be available in English, French, and eventually Yorùbá. To keep costs low, the site needed to be able to allow the adding, updating, and translating of content to be handled by multiple people on multiple continents.

Delta Systems provided the website design and is the web hosting provider for the LEA.

The Tiger Quarterback Club asked Delta Systems to help with getting the word out about their sports memorabilia auction going on during their annual Black & Gold Golf Tournament.

Delta helped out by quickly adding forms and items to their WordPress system to allow online bidding during the silent auction. A representative onsite would be notified of the bids coming in from TigerQBClub.com/auction and can quickly coordinate virtual bids with those being made onsite at The Club at Old Hawthorne. With the assistance of the general public bidding on items via the website, the online auction system was a great success and netted several thousand dollars for the Tiger QB Club.

Update: This was the BEST auction results the group has ever attained. Online bids were rolling in even before golfers were getting off the course. Several fevered bidding wars erupted as people onsite sat perched, ready to place higher bids, waiting for online bidders to strike.

Some of the items included in the auction were

1. Brad Smith #16 New York Jets Jersey Donated by TQBC
2. Jeremy Maclin #18 Philadelphia Eagles Jersey Donated by TQBC
3. Chase Daniel #10 New Orleans Saints Jersey Donated by TQBC
4. Blaine Gabbert #11 University of Missouri Jersey Donated by TQBC
5. Swing Analysis Donated by Golf Tech
6. 6 Suite Tickets to Cardinals All Inclusive, parking pass, $1500 value Donated by Huntley-McGhee
7. Smokehouse Sampler Donated by Burgers Smokehouse
8. Timeless Treasure Gift Pack Donated by Burgers Smokehouse
9. 1953 Bowman Stan Musial Baseball Card – Autographed Donated by Bill Carner
10. $25 Gift Card to Macaroni Grill and 2 Tickets to Ragtag Cinema Donated by Cindy Sheltmire
11. Weekend Rental of Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Donated by Mid America Harley- Davidson
12. Carl Edwards Autographed Car Donated by Carl Edwards
13. Overnight Stay and Breakfast for Two Donated by Courtyard by Marriott
14. Sterling Silver Hand Crafted Tiger Head Necklace Donated by Sturhahn Jewelers
15. Tiger Blanket Donated by John Pile
16. White Knight 10 Passenger Limo Ride for 4 hour block Donated by White Knight Limousine
17. MU/OU Autographed Coach Pinkel Print from 2010 Season Donated by TQBC
18. $25 Gift Card to D’Rowes and 1 Year Power Mizzou Subscription Donated by D’Rowes and Gabe DeArmond
19. $25 Gift Card and 1 Year Power Mizzou Subscription Donated by D’Rowes and Gabe DeArmond
20. Coach Gary Pinkel Autographed Football Donated by TQBC
21. Gus Otto Autographed Football Donated by TQBC
22. Roger Wehrli Autographed Football Donated by TQBC
23. Johnny Roland Autographed Football Donated by TQBC
24. Tony Temple Autographed Football Donated by TQBC
25. Chase Coffman Autographed Football Donated by TQBC
26. Coach John Kadlec Autographed Football Donated by TQBC

Need an online auction system? Just Call Delta

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

How is Delta different? The Only Way to Know is to Talk to Us

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

Do we build simple websites too? You bet. And we do it well using WordPress, Drupal, Expression Engine, and custom solutions.

We also have experts in Microsoft Access Development, EXE development, product commercialization, training on all major software, and more.

Give us a call and find out why over 800 companies have trusted Delta Systems with their networking, web, 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

Pump Top Video Delivery Locations can be easily added by the client as they quickly grow

Phase one of Media Outlook‘s online presence has gone live.

Delta Systems created the site in WordPress and incorporated the client’s pre-designed logos. The Media Outlook sales managers can easily add more locations to their integrated Google Map without having to call us.

This will be helpful as they quickly grow to dominate the Midwest.

Media Outlook also has a secure area for their sales team to quickly record initial sales interviews and complete Advertisement Order forms. That data is stored in a database so it can be directly integrated into the on-site media content delivery system in a future phase of development (no silly emailing of the form and then re-entering it into Excel or Access and then redoing it all when ).

It’s just one of the ways that Delta delivers best-fit solutions for today, while keeping an eye on tomorrow.

WordPress Design and Development Experts

We are WordPress Design and Development 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 – especially of sites that don’t look like they are powered by WordPress. We’ve even trained several other local companies on how to use and implement WordPress for their clients.

And if WordPress doesn’t fit the need, we’ve also worked with DotNetNuke, Drupal, Expression Engine, Joomla, Zen Cart, Interchange, Magento, StoreFront, and more.

How can we help? Give us a call and discuss it for free.

Baumgartner's Country Cured Ham Best of Interactive Award Winning Website

On February 11, 2011, The AAF | Mid-Missouri (the Mid-MO chapter of the AAF) hosted the 2010 ADDY Awards.

Delta Systems is extremely pleased and honored to receive the Best of Interactive award for BooneCountyHam.com

How Did We Build It?

This WordPress powered site is completely driven by mouth-watering JavaScript. There is no Adobe Flash involved. We even made sure it works great on iPhones, iPads, Android phones and tablets. Learn More…

Up Next: On to Districts!

All Gold ADDY award winners at the local level will be forwarded to the district level of competition. At the district level, Gold ADDY winners will forward onto the national level. You can view last year’s national winners to see what the competition will be like. Wish us luck!

3 for 3 Plus a People’s Choice AND Best of Interactive!

All of us here at Delta Systems are very pleased to announce our awards received at the 2010 Mid-Mo American Advertising Federation ADDY celebration. We walked away with a Gold in Interactive Consumer HTML for our work on Baumgartner’s Boone County Ham, a Silver in Interactive Business-to-Business HTML for CloudSMTP, and a Gold in Interactive Self-Promotion for our very own JustCallDelta.com. We were also very honored to be presented with a People’s Choice and the 2010 Best of Interactive award for the Boone County Ham website.

All the winning websites are powered by WordPress which allows Delta to provide unparalleled client-powered maintainability to the sites. The client can directly update their content, images, forms, add more recipes (using custom post types) and even update their pricing and order forms without needing to know any HTML.

Our Buddies Won Too

Delta Systems would like to congratulate our friends, occasional project partners, and fellow 2010 Best of … winners at Woodruff Sweitzer and Boxcar Films. As always, they cranked out some amazing work. We’re proud to continue providing technical, database, and website hosting expertise to their clients.

About the ADDY Awards

The ADDY Awards are the advertising industry’s largest and most representative competition, recognizing creative excellence and the very best advertising worldwide. Sponsored by the American Advertising Federation (AAF), the ADDY Awards represent the true creative spirit of advertising by recognizing all forms of advertising, from all types of media, created by all sizes and types of entrants, from anywhere in the world. This worldwide competition draws over 60,000 total entries annually.

Who Won Last Year?

We’re glad you asked. Check out this article and center spread of the 2009 Mid-MO ADDY Awards results in the Columbia Business Times

Need something done? Just Call Delta

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

How is Delta different? The Only Way to Know is to Talk to Us

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

Do we build simple websites too? You bet. And we do it well using WordPress, Drupal, Expression Engine, and custom solutions.

We also have experts in Microsoft Access Development, EXE development, product commercialization, training on all major software, and more.

Give us a call and find out why over 800 companies have trusted Delta Systems with their networking, web, 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

Baumgartner's Country Cured Ham Award Winning Website

On February 11, 2011, The AAF | Mid-Missouri (the Mid-MO chapter of the AAF) hosted the 2010 ADDY Awards.

Delta Systems was pleased to receive a Gold ADDY Award for BooneCountyHam.com

Up Next: On to Districts!

All Gold ADDY award winners at the local level will be forwarded to the district level of competition. At the district level, Gold ADDY winners will forward onto the national level. You can view last year’s national winners to see what the competition will be like. Wish us luck!

3 for 3 Plus a People’s Choice AND Best of Interactive!

All of us here at Delta Systems are very pleased to announce our awards received at the 2010 Mid-Mo American Advertising Federation ADDY celebration. We walked away with a Gold in Interactive Consumer HTML for our work on Baumgartner’s Boone County Ham, a Silver in Interactive Business-to-Business HTML for CloudSMTP, and a Gold in Interactive Self-Promotion for our very own JustCallDelta.com. We were also very honored to be presented with a People’s Choice and the 2010 Best of Interactive award for the Boone County Ham website.

All the winning websites are powered by WordPress which allows Delta to provide unparalleled client-powered maintainability to the sites. The client can directly update their content, images, forms, add more recipes (using custom post types) and even update their pricing and order forms without needing to know any HTML.

Our Buddies Won Too

Delta Systems would like to congratulate our friends, occasional project partners, and fellow 2010 Best of … winners at Woodruff Sweitzer and Boxcar Films. As always, they cranked out some amazing work. We’re proud to continue providing technical, database, and website hosting expertise to their clients.

About the ADDY® Awards

The ADDY Awards are the advertising industry’s largest and most representative competition, recognizing creative excellence and the very best advertising worldwide. Sponsored by the American Advertising Federation (AAF), the ADDY Awards represent the true creative spirit of advertising by recognizing all forms of advertising, from all types of media, created by all sizes and types of entrants, from anywhere in the world. This worldwide competition draws over 60,000 total entries annually.

Delta Systems Group's New Website

Well I guess we get to toot our own horn for a bit. On February 11, 2011, The AAF | Mid-Missouri (the Mid-MO chapter of the AAF) hosted the 2010 ADDY Awards.

Delta Systems was pleased to receive a Gold ADDY Award for our new website at JustCallDelta.com

Up Next: On to Districts!

All Gold ADDY award winners at the local level will be forwarded to the district level of competition. At the district level, Gold ADDY winners will forward onto the national level. You can view last year’s national winners to see what the competition will be like. Wish us luck!

3 for 3 Plus a People’s Choice AND Best of Interactive!

All of us here at Delta Systems are very pleased to announce our awards received at the 2010 Mid-Mo American Advertising Federation ADDY celebration. We walked away with a Gold in Interactive Consumer HTML for our work on Baumgartner’s Boone County Ham, a Silver in Interactive Business-to-Business HTML for CloudSMTP, and a Gold in Interactive Self-Promotion for our very own JustCallDelta.com. We were also very honored to be presented with the 2010 Best of Interactive award for the Boone County Ham website.

All the winning websites are powered by WordPress which allows Delta to provide unparalleled client-powered maintainability to the sites. The client can directly update their content, images, forms, add more recipes (using custom post types) and even update their pricing and order forms without needing to know any HTML.

Our Buddies Won Too

Delta Systems would like to congratulate our friends, occasional project partners, and fellow 2010 Best of … winners at Woodruff Sweitzer and Boxcar Films.  As always, they cranked out some amazing work. We’re proud to continue providing technical, database, and website hosting expertise to their clients.

About the ADDY® Awards

The ADDY Awards are the advertising industry’s largest and most representative competition, recognizing creative excellence and the very best advertising worldwide. Sponsored by the American Advertising Federation (AAF), the ADDY Awards represent the true creative spirit of advertising by recognizing all forms of advertising, from all types of media, created by all sizes and types of entrants, from anywhere in the world. This worldwide competition draws over 60,000 total entries annually.